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Dropbox in Ubuntu "Dropbox isn't running! Dropbox is already running!"
Dear Dropbox community I have been struggling with my Dropbox on Ubuntu for a while now. The icon on the system tray had disappeared, but files were still syncing. I tried a couple of things to m...
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey there rodduarte - sorry to hear about this.
Could you give our offline installer a go and let me know if you still get this error? In that case, please forward a screenshot of it in your next reply as well.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I have the exact same issue (on Ubuntu 18.04), using the offline installer as suggested did not work unfortunately. It gave back the same error as in the original post.
- Walter
Hey there ldamico - sorry to hear about this.
Can you try a complete, clean advanced re-install for me and let me know how this goes?
Just a few things to note here:
1. Make sure you're running our software on a supported configuration as per this article which also provides more information on the system requirements for installing on Linux machines. In this page you'll find the libraries you need to have installed as well for Dropbox to run smoothly on your device.
2. Make also sure that the drive you're installing our software is of a supported format and preferably on your primary drive (meaning the one your OS is installed on): For Dropbox to work best you should make sure that the drive is formatted as NTFS (Windows), HFS (Mac OS X) or a file system that supports extended attributes (Linux) such as EXT3, EXT4 or even BtrFS .
Let me know what you find and we'll take it from there. Thank you!
Hi Walt3r, thanks for your help!
I ran the procedure:
One thing that happened is this:
leonardo@leonardo-ThinkPad-X270:~$ rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/dropbox': Permission deniedI solved it using sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox
Another thing is:
leonardo@leonardo-ThinkPad-X270:~$ rm /etc/apt/source.d/dropbox
rm: cannot remove '/etc/apt/source.d/dropbox': No such file or directoryAfter that, I have installed from .deb, I clicked Dropbox icon, it downloads the software, updates and then tells me Dropbox Start Required: I click Start Dropbox a few times but it is not responsive.
I do find a dropbox process in system monitor which however is in Sleeping status.
After 10mins or so of idleness I closed the window, killed the process, and reopened Dropbox by clicking on the icon. The process restarted but I saw nothing, unfortunately and now in system monitor is in sleeping status.
Should I try to install dropbox-nautilus by sudo apt-get?
