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timb75
New member | Level 1
12 months ago

Dropbox app on Fedora KDE 41 stuck on "Connecting..."

I have just installed Dropbox on Fedora KDE 41 and logged in to my Dropbox account. I can put files in the Dropbox folder and they get uploaded. However, when I right click on the taskbar icon the to...
desktop
Linux
sync
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Walter
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12 months ago

Thanks for the additional information there timb75  - much appreciated.

Could you maybe send us a screenshot of what you get on your end so that we can have a visual too?

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timb75
New member | Level 1
12 months ago

The screenshot of the menu would be exactly the same as one in this 3 year old topic I just found.

https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101001014/solved-ubuntu-22-04-dropbox-is-always-connecting-/599988

And the "solution" in that topic (which isn't really a solution anyway) doesn't work. Looks like a 3 year old bug which, to be honest, makes me think that Linux support is half baked at best.

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    12 months ago

    Hey timb75, thanks for the additional info.

    Can we send you an email, so we can take a closer look into this?

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