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Linux - Unable to change Dropbox directory
I'm using Fedora Workstation 25 with GNOME.
Trying to change the Dropbox directory results in the utterly useless message "Unexpected errors occurred. Your Dropbox is ok!".
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I was having this same issue. I found a fix in creating a Dropbox folder in my home directory prior to connecting my account. This caused the installer to throw an error about a Dropbox folder already existing that prompted me to either delete the Dropbox folder or select a different location. Eureka! (for me at least...)
Guys solved, and the solution was the easiest and logic.
I expose my situation:
sda1 300GB --> /
sda5 8TB --> /home
As I explained, I wanted to install Dropbox below /home directory, but playing as "root" user, by default, it forced the installation on /root
So I just installed the daemon using the user who owns the home directory I want and it works properly, just remember to add the "user" to the root group.
If you need more details, don't hesitate to ask.
wrote:I was having this same issue. I found a fix in creating a Dropbox folder in my home directory prior to connecting my account. This caused the installer to throw an error about a Dropbox folder already existing that prompted me to either delete the Dropbox folder or select a different location. Eureka! (for me at least...)
This didn't work for me, but I did find a similar solution! I created a "work" dropbox account and set up a fresh installation of dropbox with that account, which places the "work" Dropbox folder in the defaut ~/Dropbox. I then deleted everything in ~/.dropbox* (with rm -rf ~/.dropbox* ), reinstalled dropbox and set it up using my personal account. Now since the folder in ~/Dropbox already contains the dropbox for the work account, I got the prompt that allowed me to either delete the Dropbox folder or select a different location for my personal account. Somehow this worked when simply moving the folder within dropbox wouldn't... I hope this helps somebody! (using Fedora 27 btw)
I've now recieved an email telling me that I did open ticket. The form for raising a ticket should provide feedback though.
Dear Mike,
Did you solve the problem? Could you keep update some info?
I've got the same problem. When I want Dropbox Fedora sync file from a NTFS Share Drive.
Thanks
TuanNV
My support ticket has been passed on to different people at Dropbox several times, but the problem has not yet been solved.
I have established that moving the Dropbox directory to a subdirectory of my home directory, e.g. from ~/Dropbox to ~/Something/Dropbox does work which makes me think the issue is somehow related to moving the Dropbox directory to a different disk partition. However on openSUSE Leap 42.2 moving the Dropbox directory to a different disk partition does work. I haven't been able to work out why that works on openSUSE but not Fedora (using same version of Dropbox client). I've replicated the problem on Fedora 23, 25, 26. Haven't tried 24.
In my case, I think the problem is my Dropbox location is NTFS drive. If I move Dropbox to ext4, everything fine.
Hope Dropbox fix this problem soon.
Mike, do you know the location of Dropbox's log file? I can't find anything about dropbox on /var/log/
Thanks
TuanNV
- ~/.dropbox/logs/ but you can't read them. Dropbox support have told me "you won't be able to open them, I'm afraid they are encrypted and can only be decrypted here."
