Dropbox not syncing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dropbox v87.4.138

[JayCnCy]

Dear Community,

I have been using Dropbox for a while on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Now, I am using the dropbox client v87.4.148 and the app seems ok apart from the syncing issue.

The logo on the right top corner of the desktop is showing the updating wheel, when I click on it I see syncing and I have the opportunity to stop the sync. However, the folder remains empty.

Anyone has experienced this before ?

And by the way, happy new year !

Best,

JayCnCy

[Gregladen]

Dropbox no longer works for Linux, generally.  The company claims that it will work for very specific distributions. If it happens to work for other distributions, that would be a coincidence and not reliable.  This seems to have been an arbitrary change in Dropbox policy. If one or more of the computers you use is a Linux computer, you should probably use a different syncing service.  

[sombrafam · Accepted solution]

The hint to remove the syn links worked to me! I have removed all symbolic links and now my folder is syncing again. Thanks!! 

# find the files:
find . -type l

# delete them
find . -type l -exec rm {} \;

[robromijnders]

Solved the issue for me (icw the chattr and chmod commands above). Thanks!

[beensbury]

This helped! Had the same issue! Thanks a bunch!