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Can't Move the Dropbox Folder to Ext4 or NTFS partition
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In response to the change in dropbox file system support, I created a new partition on my hard drive to store my dropbox files in. It's 2 GB larger than my maximum dropbox space.
My main partitions are all Ext4, but my home partition is encrypted which apparently doesn't work. This new partition was made without any obvious encryption option.
Trying to move the dropbox folder, using dropbox > preferences > sync > dropbox folder location, and selecting a folder on my new partition returns a system incompatability error (see screenshot)
I reformatted the partition to NTFS, but dropbox refuses to move the folder, with the same vague error. I looked through the circuitous FAQs this error links to, as far as I can see there's no other special circumstances to my setup. I'm just a guy using linux who doesn't want to reinstall his entire OS, and is about ready to cancel his dropbox subscirption.
Take a look at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Ubuntu-16-04-Error-moving-files-to-new-ext4-location/m-p/304087#M17994
Basically, use a subfolder of the new ext4 partition as target for dropbox. It worked for me.
Take a look at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Ubuntu-16-04-Error-moving-files-to-new-ext4-location/m-p/304087#M17994
Basically, use a subfolder of the new ext4 partition as target for dropbox. It worked for me.
Yeah wow, that actually did work. Files successfully moved to media/username/DropboxPartition/Data/Dropbox
Not super elegant, but at least it's working. Thank you!
I'm using LinuxMint 17.3. After installing the app using
sudo apt-get install dropbox
(or from the .deb downloaded from Dropbox), I tried the solution in this forum
https://superuser.com/questions/575550/how-do-i-change-the-dropbox-directory-on-a-headless-gnu-linux-serverI only changed the path and the .py like this:
HOME=/media/familia/DropboxDrive dropbox start -i
Where "familia" is my user name, and DropboxDrive is an NTFS partition I created in Windows (I have dual Boot). I think it would work even ir the partiton is created using "Disks" utility from LinuxMint or Ubuntu.
I had to do that so Dropbox does not sync my folders inside my HOME folder by default. This way it starts syncing in the path I want to.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Sorry, yes. The new partition was originally created as Ext4. I also tried reformatting it to Fat32 before I realized that's unsupported. Finally I tried NTFS, but I got the same error when trying to move the dropbox folder each time.
- Jay
I have the same configuration. I'm using a dual-boot PC with linuxmint and windows 10. I have a data partition that is NTFS to share between Linux and Windows. The dropbox folder is in the NTFS partition so it can be shared between linux and windows.
Now I cannot move the dropbox folder to the NTFS partition when working on linux OS.
I'm using Kubuntu 18.04.
I have ext4 partition, mounted on /media/dropbox and a symlink (for convenience) to it at: /home/$USER/Dropbox (my home & root partition is also ext4).
Until today, dropbox was set up to sync in /home/$USER/Dropbox.
Now it says I should move it to a supported location.
I tried setting it up to sync directly in the /media/dropbox ext4 partition, but it still refuses, and says this is unsupported location.
The filesystems ARE ext4 and HAVE extended attributes enabled.Mounting the dropbox partition directly in /home/$USER/Dropbox (instead of using simlink) results in the same error.
- Jane
Kubuntu = Ubuntu, just different desktop environment. Install KDE on Ubuntu, and you have Kubuntu...
Also, about the symlink - it was NOT inside dropbox, and it was not the cause for the bug - the result was the same without it.
It was a symlink to the dropbox directory, and I don't see why dropbox would have anything against it - it does not break anything, and it's a standard feature that has been working for, like, decades in unix/linux.
This is definitely a bug - I don't have any other types of partitions except ext4, and yet, dropbox throws an error and refuses to sync).
The proposed "solution", while maybe working, is just a workaround (and not very elegant one).
