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zephyr707
Helpful | Level 7
10 months ago

Dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348 is stuck at "Starting..."

I feel like I have had this issue before, but can't remember the solution. Searching around it seems like there are a lot of similar issues with "Starting..." as dropboxd status and never resolves to...
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zephyr707's avatar
zephyr707
Helpful | Level 7
8 months ago

have not been able to get this working for a couple months, but was away from this desktop machine. just booted it up and ran:

dropbox update

which got me up to version 222.4.5042, but exhibiting the same behavior, unfortunately. Any ideas on a fix?

I noticed there is a

dropbox exclude list

command which could be handy to extract the list of excluded directories and allow for an easier full removal and reinstall, but when I run it I get:

dropbox exclude list ValueError: no path specified

it probably needs the dropbox daemon running for it to work.

also, none of the content formatting is working to allow me to publish this reply so I have had to strip it.

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