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Pummelchen
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
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Dropbox GUI gone after Debian 10 Buster Upgrade

Hello, I used to run Debian 9.x with Kernel 5.1.x with GNOME desktop and Dropbox GUI installed from the Dropbox website (deb file). Usually in the bottom left corner there was a little box to find...
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  • Pummelchen's avatar
    Pummelchen
    7 years ago

    Solution found:

    Disable GNOME Extension TopIcons Plus and instead install and enable gnome-shell-extension-appindicator, reboot, done.

    https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

     

    Seems that TopIcons Plus is not working in Debian 10 due to the newer GNOME version.

     

    Thanks to everyone with ideas and suggestions ! :innocent:

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
7 years ago

I use Dropbox in Ubuntu and (if we ignore the relatively bad support) it work fine.

Seem I wasn't clear enough about the mapping. I haven't used VmWare, but in VirtualBox, for example, without using any external tools, You cat select some folder in host file system and map content as content of a virtual drive in the virtual machine. I don't believe that in VmWare missing such functionality. In such a way single Dropbox installation (per real machine) can serve multiple Os-es, without additional Dropbox installations at all. That's what I mean.

Pummelchen's avatar
Pummelchen
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Yes, you can do the same in VMware. However my scenario is different:

Host OS only uses Dropbox to sync VMware machines. One Debian VM syncs all Dropbox data (except the VMware machines) and provides that Dropbox folder to the LAN via SMB/FTP. Having Dropbox on each server/workstation creates a mess, so we switched to a centralized solution with SMB/FTP and use 1 Dropbox instance as a background cloud sync.

The benefit is that the VMware host can crash, and I can quickly deploy the Dropbox VM to a new server and do not need to resync everything. Its much faster to manage a LAN this way.

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