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Cheezykins
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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Unable to link dropbox desktop client in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - "Invalid URL"

I've installed dropbox on my desktop from the .deb. On opening it, I click the drop down and firefox opens to a URL like   https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link_nonce?nonce=4217fadb61d996a55bdec9ec41e...
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  • Cheezykins's avatar
    Cheezykins
    3 years ago

    I solved it, it was spawning background firefox instances at the same time that were using the nonce before it was then opening it in the foreground and showing me the error. I killed the process spawning the background firefox instances and it suddenly worked

     

     

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echoz
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I didn't know about the linked devices. I appreciate your answer but even that did not help me. Deleting them all, I had not a single device connected and still I received a similar nonce error. I'd logged out and quit Firefox altogether and still the same error occurred. I find the "accepted" solution is bogus information as far as I'm concerned.

Running "dropbox update" prompted a "proprietary" installation which I agreed to and voila! Once that was done, logging in, I had no problem. 

Thank you.

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jabowery
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Yeah the accepted solution is unacceptably vague even assuming one has the same cause.  It looks like there are several independent causes of the same symptom.  Really bad design.

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