You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Changes on third-party app not syncing between three Linux distros
I have three linux distros installed on my desktop. They all have Gnucash and Dropbox. They are all connected to the same Dropbox account. I made a change in Gnucash on one of the distros and then later switched to the other two distros. The changes that I made in the one doesn't show up in the Gnucash on the other two distros. All three distros have the same version of Gnucash (5.10). What do I need to do further to solve this problem?
How can I make files online-only on Ubuntu?
Dear all Recently, I moved from Windows 11 to Ubuntu 24.04 in my laptop. During my journey in Windows, I was always very pleased with the integration between Dropbox and my operating system, as I could browse all the folders in my Dropbox account locally on my laptop without having to go to the web browser, even those that were not synced to my computer (i.e. I could access the folders not downloaded to my computer, see the file names... and when I double-clicked on a file, it would be downloaded to my computer and I could access it quickly and easily). When I downloaded and synced Dropbox with Ubuntu on my laptop, all the files and folders in my Dropbox account started to store a copy locally on my computer. For those folders that took up a lot of space and that I wasn't going to use at the moment, I right-clicked on them and checked the option to not sync with dropbox.com. However, this did not have the effect of clearing the space that these folders were taking up, with the desired functionality of being able to browse my laptop locally and see their names and be able to access them even if they weren't synced. I was wondering if there was a way to mimic this functionality that I enjoyed on Windows.
The Dropbox app (v213.4.4597) stalls when syncing (Linux/Ubuntu 24.04).
Hi, I've noticed that the current version of Dropbox (v213.4.4597) on my Linux setup (Ubuntu 24.04.1) seems to stall and not appear to sync after a certain time once started. I have tested my internet connection and there doesn't appear to be an issue with that (I've updated the Wi-Fi connection, using a different dongle, and have tried wired internet, and I am getting c. 250Mbps down and 50Mbps up, and can web browse and download whatever), and I have uninstalled and reinstalled the client (and the daemon) but the behaviour doesn't change. It seems that, very specifically, it happens when files are being uploaded on that machine to my Dropbox, and files are being downloaded from my Dropbox to my machine simultaneously. Eventually the files are uploaded and things 'unblock', but it can take hours for the situation to resolve. Is this an issue with this version? Is there anything else I can try to resolve this?
The Linux exclude add [folder] command deletes the [folder] on the server
This is an issue I saw in the community 4 years ago without a solution. I experienced this problem today on my debian Server. Dropbox daemon version: 213.4.4597 Dropbox command-line interface version: 2019.02.14 The funny thing is that already 6 years some folders are nicely excluded on the server without any problems. But we cannot add any new folder to it.Are symlinks from the Dropbox folder supported or not?
This page: https://help.dropbox.com/sync/symlinks last updated last September says symlinks are supported. Yet when I create a link in my Dropbox folder pointint outside, only the link gets synced [an entry for it that cannot be opened appears on the web], but not the link contents. Is that article wrong or am I doing something wrong? This is on Linux.
The syncing on my headless Linux setup is quite slow.
I am running Dropbox under Arch Linux on a Hetzner server in a datacenter in Finland. Ocasionally I do data processing on the server because it's a fast machine. Sometimes uploads of these changes to Dropbox get stuck. Three days ago, the upload of a single 3.5 MB file took more than half an hour. There was almost no load on the machine, and it has a1 GBit/s connection. It was just sitting there, and this is not the first time: Speedtest to a server in Germany: What could be the reason? How do I find out more? I contacted support, but that was not helpful. It seems that there is no proper support for headless Linux installations with only text terminal access.
Some folders aren't syncing to Mac device, but they are syncing to Windows and Linux
Hi Everyone, I'm on M3 Mac, with the most recent Dropbox app. I noticed that specific shared folders will never show locally, in the file system, despite being marked for syncing. Tried both versions of Dropbox app, with and without the new File API. Reinstalled, redownloaded, redid everything I could think of - the result is always identical. The same folders will sync on Linux and Windows, so this looks like a Mac-only bug. I think I identified the condition, under which the sync fails - could someone please confirm or falsify this? - The folder must be shared - The folder must have multiple substrings in the name, connected with a "-" (minus) symbol (possibly other symbols can cause problems, too) - There must be more than one shared folder with the first substring being identical, e.g. "ABC-X1", "ABC-X2", "ABC-X3", all shared. With these conditions, either none, or just one of these three folders will show locally in Finder / in the local file system. Thanks!
