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Iplicjian's avatar
Iplicjian
Collaborator | Level 8
5 years ago

Linux Mint 20 : DropBox no longer syncing despite syncing icon!

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

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  • Iplicjian's avatar
    Iplicjian
    5 years ago

    STOP PRESS! 

    In the last 5 mins (just after I had posted the above). The folders and files have miraculously updated without any apparent syncing taking place! 

    It seems to be working. 

    I shall harvest the commans used in case I need them in the future. Meanwhile, thank you all very much for your patience and help.

    Regards from a locked-down SW France.

    John

     

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    5 years ago

    Hi there Iplicjian; thanks for posting on our Community!

     

    Instead of downloading and installing that version of the app, could you try compiling it from source and running it as mentioned here? 

     

    Let me know the results! 

    • Iplicjian's avatar
      Iplicjian
      Collaborator | Level 8
      5 years ago

      hello: Right I did precisely as requested and 

      user@AsusA54C:~$ tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2
tar (child): ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
user@AsusA54C:~$ tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2
tar (child): ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
user@AsusA54C:~$

      However, please note that the latest version as far as I could see was this 

      debian/

      (as I'm running Mint)

      dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb

       

      Please advise soonest as I would love to get DropBox working again! 

      Thanks

      John

       

       

      • STrRedWolf's avatar
        STrRedWolf
        Helpful | Level 7
        5 years ago

        I'm going to assume you're new at the command line, so bear with me if you're a bit better.

         

        First of all, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu.  I don't know if nautilus-dropbox has a PPA with an updated version.

         

        Second of all, you may need to install bzip2.  "tar" uses external programs, and .bz2 files are compressed using bzip2.

        sudo apt-get install bzip2

        If you're compiling anything on your system, you'll also need the build-essentials package:

        sudo apt-get install build-essentials

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