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rse1982
Explorer | Level 4
3 months ago

Dropbox stuck on "Starting" after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10

I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 24.10 and have noticed that Dropbox never gets past starting.  I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and setting fs.inotify.max_user_watches to 1 million a...
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Hannah
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Hi there, rse1982, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.

 

Would you mind taking a look at this article, to make sure your computer has the minimum requirements for the Dropbox app to work?

 

Also, can you let me know about how many files you have in your Dropbox folder?

 

Let me know and we'll go from there!

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CelineFlora
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Hi Hannah, I and many others are having the same issues. 

 

My computer has the minimum  requirements for the Dropbox app to work.

 

I have a bit more than 100,000 files in my Dropbox folder.

 

Thank you.

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