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strophy
Explorer | Level 3
5 months ago

I can't configure dropbox on Ubuntu 24.04

Hi, I am required to use Dropbox for work on an Ubuntu 24.04 system, which is apparently supported as "Ubuntu 22.10 or higher"   I followed the instructions at https://www.dropbox.com/install-lin...
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darkstarmcj
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Hi, I had a similar issue on ubuntu 24.04. Coming from a slackware background, I went straight to the command line. Identify your dropbox process with ps -ef and kill it.

Then go to your home directory and start dropbox via

.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

 

If there is a problem, it will notify you on the terminal. In my case, I had too many files so I run the command below (I added a couple of zeros to what suggested in the error message just to be safe):

 

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=10000000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p

 

Then restarted dropbox with

.dropbox-dist/dropboxd 

 

It is synchronising now. I hope it will restart automatically without any such mess when I reboot next.

 

 

 

 

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