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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...
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
Hey guys,
Is there any problem installing prebuilded plugins, from here, instead build anew? 🤔
Download the debian package and run following while in directory where the package got downloaded:
sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
Update the file name, if has changed in mean time (take a look on downloaded file actual name).
Next, run following:
dropbox start -i
dropbox status
What is the result? Is there some problem now?! 😉
Hope this helps.
Thank you. Below is the result of running the commands in order. Drop box is now in the system tray and syncing. However, whether it will actually sync is anpother question. Looking at the "chnaged files" they look exactly like the ones from over two weeks ago when first this problem occured. I have continued to work on my Apple Mac and humdred of files have changed since.
user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb [sudo] password for user: (Reading database ... 644545 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb ... Unpacking dropbox (2020.03.04) over (2020.03.04) ... Setting up dropbox (2020.03.04) ... You are not running Debian or Ubuntu. Not adding Dropbox repository. Please restart all running instances of Nautilus, or you will experience problems. i.e. nautilus --quit Dropbox installation successfully completed! You can start Dropbox from your applications menu. Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24+linuxmint1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ... user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop$ dropbox start -i Starting Dropbox...dropbox: locating interpreter dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-bTVEyd dropbox: initializing dropbox: initializing python 3.7.9 dropbox: setting program path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/dropbox' dropbox: setting python path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443:/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/python-packages.zip' dropbox: python initialized dropbox: running dropbox dropbox: setting args dropbox: enabling allocator metrics dropbox: applying overrides dropbox: running main script dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' Dropbox isn't running! Done! user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop$ dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-107.4.443/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' Unable to monitor entire Dropbox folder hierarchy. Please run "echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p" and restart Dropbox to fix the problem. user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop$ dropbox status Syncing...
