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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 that the LM version (which I re-downloaded yesterday in an attempt to solve this) is version 107.4.443 whereas the MacOS version is 108.4.453. Thsi information may have nothing to do with the problem but I mention it for information.
Please help 🙂
Thanks
John
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.
Results :
user@AsusA54C:~$ sudo chown -R "user" ./Dropbox user@AsusA54C:~$ sudo chattr -R -i "user" ./Dropbox chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat user chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/BigBlobs.apdb chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/ImageProxies.apdb chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/Properties.apdb chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/Faces.db chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/History.apdb chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/Library.apdb user@AsusA54C:~$ chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox user@AsusA54C:~$
@Iplicjian wrote:Results :
... user@AsusA54C:~$ sudo chattr -R -i "user" ./Dropbox chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat user chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/BigBlobs.apdb ...
Hi @Iplicjian,
Pay more attention when editing command, not to put there some errors! 😉 Who advise you type the above command in exactly such a way?! Seems you haven't moved your Dropbox folder and no need any modifications on the commands, that I have posted already.
Have you updated your application to the latest stable release (109.4.517 at this post moment)? What's the result from:
dropbox version
Did you try to trace any strange statuses? According to the errors, you just posted, seems there are some issues in the database folder. What is the following commands results:
cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/ ls -al dropbox filestatus
🤔
Hope the above results will give helpful directions.
So, aftre all of that, we are back to square one. The Doropbox icon is in the system tray showing Syncing 24x7 with the "recently chnaged files" being those of nearly three weeks ago.
PLEASE Dropbox tech Support. Give me step by step instructions on what I need to do to get Dropbox working again under Linut 20.
I hope we can make one more effort to sort this.
Thanks in anticipation again
John (SW France)
Thank you. The latest results from the command line are :
user@AsusA54C:~$ cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/ user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$ ls -al total 64 drwxr-xr-x 11 user user 4096 Oct 7 13:02 . drwxr-xr-x 9 user user 4096 Oct 7 15:05 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 7 13:03 Albums drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 7 18:36 apdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 18 Jan 18 2015 BigBlobs.apdb -> apdb/BigBlobs.apdb -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 2645 Sep 28 2019 DataModelVersion.plist drwxr-xr-x 6 user user 4096 Oct 7 12:48 Faces lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 13 Jan 18 2015 Faces.db -> apdb/Faces.db drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 7 12:59 Folders drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Oct 7 12:48 History lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 17 Jan 18 2015 History.apdb -> apdb/History.apdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 22 Jan 18 2015 ImageProxies.apdb -> apdb/ImageProxies.apdb -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1497 Jan 27 2015 Keywords.plist lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 17 Jan 18 2015 Library.apdb -> apdb/Library.apdb drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 7 13:03 Places lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 20 Jan 18 2015 Properties.apdb -> apdb/Properties.apdb -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 114 Jan 28 2015 SpanCache.plist -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 303 Sep 28 2019 tmSync.plist drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 18 2015 Vaults drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Oct 7 12:48 Versions drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 18 2015 Volumes user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$ dropbox filestatus Dropbox isn't running! user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$ dropbox filestatus Albums: unwatched apdb: unwatched BigBlobs.apdb: unwatched DataModelVersion.plist: unwatched Faces: unwatched Faces.db: unwatched Folders: unwatched History: unwatched History.apdb: unwatched ImageProxies.apdb: unwatched Keywords.plist: unwatched Library.apdb: unwatched Places: unwatched Properties.apdb: unwatched SpanCache.plist: unwatched tmSync.plist: unwatched Vaults: unwatched Versions: unwatched Volumes: unwatched user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$
Many thanks. What next please ?
Hi @Iplicjian,
All those "unwatched" don't look well. Let start step by step. You haven't checked your whatches limit yet, as I suggested. Let's make sure you have some basic tools installed using following:
sudo apt-get install tree jq
Now, current watch limits could be evaluated using following:
db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l; sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
Most probably Dropbox folder entries are above the limit, but let see the result. 🤔
Thanks !
Installed tree (whatever that is!); no problem.
user@AsusA54C:~$ db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l; sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches Your Dropbox folder /home/user/Dropbox entries approximate count is 85186 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 8192
What next please ?
🙂 Yes, as I have guessed 85186 is much bigger than 8192! The limit have to be above the actual value. Next some reserve addition, you can use the suggestion from the error, you have received previous, without any change. I'm repeating it below:
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p
To make sure limit is above the current entries count, repeat the check you just make in your previous post. Force Dropbox application to reload the just made settings using following:
dropbox stop; dropbox start; dropbox version; dropbox status
Check if the 'unwatched' entries are still unwatched (can be needed some time - many files are probably out of sync):
cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/; dropbox filestatus
🤔
Thanks very much. Done all that. No errors. Dropbox latest version and syncing. However, I am not yet seeing the hundreds of files that have been added / updated in the last four weeks.
I shall leave it to sync all day BUT, if we are still not syncing, is there anything else that we can do? For example remove all trace of Dropbox from my system and start over ?
It's clearly frustrating for you but more so for me when I think that my Win10 amd Mac systems work faultlessly as they have for YEARS !
Thanks for your support. John
user@AsusA54C:~$ echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p [sudo] password for user: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000 user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox stop Dropbox isn't responding! user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox stop Dropbox isn't responding! user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox start Starting Dropbox...dropbox: locating interpreter dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-LBJEwR dropbox: initializing dropbox: initializing python 3.7.9 dropbox: setting program path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/dropbox' dropbox: setting python path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517:/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/python-packages.zip' dropbox: python initialized dropbox: running dropbox dropbox: setting args dropbox: enabling allocator metrics dropbox: applying overrides dropbox: running main script dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' Dropbox isn't running! Done! user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' cd ~/Dropbox/ONLIdropbox version Dropbox daemon version: 109.4.517 Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04 user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox status Syncing 45,868 files • 2 hrs Indexing 273 files... Uploading 3 files... Downloading 45,592 files (0.0 KB/sec, 2 hrs) user@AsusA54C:~$
So, after almost 24 hrs syncing, Dropbox shows an up to date status. HOWEVER, the folders and files show me that nothing has synced for the poast month. I have executed Dropbox stop; Dropbox start and Dropbox status. Status now says and shows syncing but, after 30 seconds shows and reports Up to date. However the folders and files are NOT up to date.
Can anyone suggest what I can do, other than give up or return to a Win10 box ? 😞
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