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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...
I contacted support, unfortunately I got not so positive reply:
I have received a reply from our specialized team,
Unfortunately, this does not meet the minimum requirements for the Dropbox application. OpenSUSE along with the file system is not supported.
Please review our recommended minimum requirements on the following page:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/3
We are of course always looking for user input when creating the next version of the Dropbox app. I will make sure your comments are passed along to our development team.
I have received a reply from our specialized team,
Unfortunately, this does not meet the minimum requirements for the Dropbox application. OpenSUSE along with the file system is not supported.
Please review our recommended minimum requirements on the following page:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/3
We are of course always looking for user input when creating the next version of the Dropbox app. I will make sure your comments are passed along to our development team.
Seems I at least found a nice workaround for the issue:
My laptop has 2 disk drives - SSD and HDD. On SSD I have home with ~/.dropbox folder on XFS partition. However HDD is 1TB of ext4 mainly for data and media. So I moved whole ~/.dropbox/instance_db folder from home to HDD ext4 drive and created symlink back to home.
Dropbox is now happy as ext4 does not change inode IDs at all.
My laptop has 2 disk drives - SSD and HDD. On SSD I have home with ~/.dropbox folder on XFS partition. However HDD is 1TB of ext4 mainly for data and media. So I moved whole ~/.dropbox/instance_db folder from home to HDD ext4 drive and created symlink back to home.
Dropbox is now happy as ext4 does not change inode IDs at all.
Update to possible workaround: moving and symlinking ~/.dropbox/instance_db is not enough, it lasted for a day and resets again. Now I moved whole ~/.dropbox folder. So far so good after one day.
- Yes, both ~/.dropbox/instance_db and ~/.dropbox/instance1 have separate keys, so at minimum you would need to move both.
And of course there's no guarantee that Dropbox won't change the layout in the future, so moving the whole ~/.dropbox/ is the best choice (for now).
