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notredruide
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago
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DropBox Locks Up System While Syncing (Linux)

For the last several days, every time I start my Linux system (Ubuntu 22.04) it locks up after a few minutes. DropBox appears to be the cause. It loads on startup and a few minutes into syncing the w...
desktop
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    2 years ago

    Hi notredruide,

    Try following list of commands:

    killall dropbox
sudo apt-get purge dropbox
rm -rf ~/.dropbox*
wget https://linux.dropboxstatic.com/packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $(realpath dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb)
rm dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
dropbox start -i

    Execute the commands one by one in the order as shown. If some error brings up at some point post exact steps as they appear in the terminal together with the error message.

    Hope this helps.

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notredruide
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Oh, also, for the record, your second command produced this response which I responded to by changing the target from "dropbox" to "dropbox-nautilus":

[user]@[computer]:~$ sudo apt purge dropbox
[sudo] password for [user]: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'dropbox' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
[user]@[computer]:~$ sudo apt purge nautilus-dropbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nautilus-dropbox*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
After this operation, 288 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 284304 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nautilus-dropbox (2019.02.14-1ubuntu1) ...
DerSpitz's avatar
DerSpitz
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
Ist dein Problem jetzt gelöst? Ich bin etwas verwirrt weil die Dropbox Befehlszeile die gleiche ist, wie zu Beginn? Was ist jetzt anders? Funktioniert Dropbox jetzt trotz der vielen Dateien und wird das System jetzt weniger ausgelastet? Danke für deine Antwort.

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