Dropbox error - couldn't start Dropbox on Ubuntu

Thanks for the additional info Ozone - much appreciated.

From what I see now, the issue you are seeing may be due to the fact you are trying to place Dropbox on a different drive other than the one running your computer's operating system. To help resolve this issue, could you maybe try locating Dropbox in the same location as your operating system? 

This can be done by allowing Dropbox to install to its default location during setup so you'll need to re-install at this point. Once you have completed the install you can then attempt to move the Dropbox folder to a different location.

Please note that your user account must have permission to write to the desired location and that the drive must be in the correct format.  Drive specifications and systems requirements can always be found on this page.

I hope this helps and please keep us posted! Remember that if this persists, you can always log a ticket with our Support team in order to troubleshoot with more account specific information. 

Hi,

It didn't help.

I have tried to install to a default locatin from ubuntu software center on a fresh install of of ubuntu 18.04, and i get the same error

So... What is the sulotion?

(same problem here - ubuntu 18.04 fresh install)

Hey ilgl76, thanks for getting in touch on the Dropbox Forum; I hope you’re having a great Monday so far!

I have the same problem with a fresh install Ubuntu 18.04!
I tried two ways!
1.) Installation of "nautilus-dropbox" directly from the software center in Ubuntu. Then comes a window with the following note (see screenshot): Start Dropbox to complete the installation. After that, the rest of the software would have to be downloaded and installed. However nothing happens if the button "Start Dropbox" is pressed. So it does not continue in the installation.
2.) .deb Installs from Dropbox Homepgae trying to install. But also leads to no result!

Hope for solution!?

Ozone, this solution helped me!
Since I kept my home folder when I reinstalled Ubuntu, I still had a folder .dropbox and .dropbox-dist.
So I uninstalled nautilus-dropbox and then renamed both folders in .dropbox-old and .dropbox-dist-old.
After that nautilus-dropbox installed and everything is fine!