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Leeon
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Dropbox on OpenSUSE Leap 15 (Linux) unlinks after restart

I am using Dropbox 50.4.71 on OpenSUSE Leap 15, just downloaded the app into home folder, on Leap there is still no Dropbox package. App works well, however after restart (sometimes after few resta...
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Elixir
Star | Level 19
8 years ago

A big thank you for your patience and tests. I am puzzled about who is removing the configuration files from ~./dropbox, whether the OS or Dropbox. I expect it not to work upon logout if it is Dropbox. Do you know at which point the configuration files are removed from ~./dropbox? Is it possible to quit Dropbox, backup the folder ./dropbox (you may try coping to anther place in your home directory as well as to an external media), restart OS, replace ./dropbox from backup, then start Dropbox?

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Leeon
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

All right, things starts to be quite weird:
I stopped DP and I backed up .dropbox folder.
I did like ~10 reboots, Dropbox was still ok.
After another reboot, DP disconnects and cleaned ~/.dropbox/instance1 files (where the is file index cache etc.).
So I restored the folder form backup, but it was not accepted and purged immediately when I started dropboxd again.

Log file though looks normal:

cat /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-5gGur8
dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-5gGur8
dropbox: initializing
dropbox: initializing python 2.7.11
dropbox: setting program path '/home/moridlub/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-50.4.71/dropbox'
dropbox: setting home path '/home/moridlub/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-50.4.71'
dropbox: setting python path '/home/moridlub/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-50.4.71:/home/moridlub/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-50.4.71/python-packages-27.zip'
dropbox: python initialized
dropbox: running dropbox
dropbox: setting args
dropbox: applying overrides
dropbox: running main script

Is there some debug/trace mode I can turn on to see more?

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