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Linux panel icon won't launch Dropbox website
On Linux, right clicking the Dropbox panel icon and selecting Launch Dropbox website does not work.
It creates a file in /tmp called something like dropbox-antifreeze-6bajuC and tries to run it.
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Hi josephj11,
That's look really old. Seems you haven't set up Dropbox repository. That's why the control script and plugin can't get updated automatically. At the beginning install the latest package. It will take care for the repository settings for you. In advance might be better uninstall the current package. Execute following command in terminal before first run of the just installed package content (or might be better before install it):
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
At the end of this step run just installed application and repeat the command from my previous post. Let's hope the output will be 'better' now. 😉 Post it.
josephj11 wrote:... I don't have Nautilus installed. I use Dolphin which is the KDE equivalent.
Yes and no!
1. Yes - it's a KDE equivalent and have almost same features.
2. No - Nautilus and Dolphin plugins are NOT directly interchangeable! Compatibility library is usually needed, if the particular plugin isn't designed for such work, as the Dropbox plugin. But you probably know this.
It may be a separate issue, but one small thing still doesn't work.
When I right click on a file in Dropbox from within Dolphin and select Copy Dropbox link, it says it did it, but I get something that looks like an empty entry in my clipboard. There's nothing there when I paste it into my text editor (kate.)
This is not a big deal because I don't think I ever had this feature before (maybe, years ago) and I can still get the link by using the Dropbox website.
Just thought I'd mention it as long as we're solving "everything" and someone else might read this later.
josephj11 wrote:It may be a separate issue, but one small thing still doesn't work.
When I right click on a file in Dropbox from within Dolphin and select Copy Dropbox link, it says it did it, but I get something that looks like an empty entry in my clipboard. There's nothing there when I paste it into my text editor (kate.)
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Hi josephj11,
Yes, you are right. There is a problem with Dropbox links. But, this is NOT a problem neither with Dolphin nor its plugins, but seems you just discovered a new bug in Dropbox application. This has to get in attention of Dropbox development. Let's hope... but most probably will stay so. I haven't noticed this, causa use it very rare (almost no), but used to work some time ago. Anyway... forget it! 😠Most probably this is some new Dropbox "feature", but you should assume a bug (as is actually)! 🤷 For once again...
If you can't fix it, feature it! LOL
Thanks.
