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Iplicjian
Collaborator | Level 8
6 years ago
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Linux Mint 20 : DropBox no longer syncing despite syncing icon!

Hello all. I have followed the suggestions made by others but still I am not syncing. I upgraded to Linux Mint 20 yesterday and everything works as it should, except DropBox; a key app for me. I note...
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  • Iplicjian's avatar
    Iplicjian
    6 years ago

    STOP PRESS! 

    In the last 5 mins (just after I had posted the above). The folders and files have miraculously updated without any apparent syncing taking place! 

    It seems to be working. 

    I shall harvest the commans used in case I need them in the future. Meanwhile, thank you all very much for your patience and help.

    Regards from a locked-down SW France.

    John

     

Iplicjian's avatar
Iplicjian
Collaborator | Level 8
6 years ago

"Why are you trying build anew nautilus plugin?"

Personally, I have no idea! I am merely doing what I am told. Nautilus means nothing to me. Previously Dropbox was syncing fine. I upgraded to Linux Mint 20 and it simply ceased syncing despite the icon suggesting otherwise. I would doubt that there are files name problems as my Apple Macs have no problems; not does our Win10 PC; just the Linux Mint 20 box. 

I was really hoping that someone here would have resolved this problem. 

Happy to start over if anyone things that this would resolve. 

Ready (again), to do what is necessary but please DropBox tech team, let's get this sorted. Thanks in anticipation !

John

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
6 years ago

If you have lost in the results, post them here. For example: how many files you have in your Dropbox folder and what's your current limitation? Are some errors coming from other commands I have mentioned? After leaving some time to the application, is there some progress and what is the status result comes from the last command?

 

PS: Try reset current daemon install using following:

dropbox stop
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
dropbox start -i

The last is just to force up upgrade to latest stable version/release.

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