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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
Iplicjian, Why are you trying build anew nautilus plugin? 🤔 I haven't noticed any complaint related to how Dropbox files appear on Nautilus! Or am I missing something?
Your problem comes from work of Dropbox daemon, not something else. Most probably you have some file/folder attribute somewhere in your Dropbox folder set inappropriately. Can you look into Dropbox folder for the exact files/folders which keep syncing and check what's wrong there? Just a simple "ls -l fileName.ext" can give a lot of info. Using Nautilus you can navigate in Dropbox directory tree. 😉
Don't lose your time with build which don't have any chance to help (even in theory).
Good luck!
PS: As Nautilus alternative in terminal you can use "dropbox filestatus". Just change to work directory to Dropbox and recursively check.
Oh... I just noticed another issue:
Iplicjian wrote:...
... 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. ...
This mean you have too much files in your Dropbox folder and the current system settings forbid following so much in one process! Usually your files can get in sync initially (at application start), but later some of them will stay out of sync, till next application launch. To fix this either remove from the local storage some of the folders not in use so your files count can fit in the limitation or increase the limit as noted in the error message. Replace the number '10000' with your files count with some reserve added. You can see current limit using:
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
To be sure that most basic attributes are fine for your Dropbox directory execute following:
sudo chown -R "$USER" "$HOME/Dropbox" sudo chattr -R -i "$HOME/Dropbox" chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox
If the problem persists still, try following for fast recursive search:
(IFS=$'\n';for i in `ls -R1 ~/Dropbox`; do if [[ "$i" =~ ":" ]]; then cd `echo "$i" | sed "y/:/\//"`; echo -n "In folder: "; pwd; dropbox filestatus; fi; done) | grep -vi "up to date" | grep -vi ".dropbox:" | grep -vi ".dropbox.cache:"
Change Dropbox folder location everywhere above, if you have moved it.
"Why are you trying build anew nautilus plugin?"
Personally, I have no idea! I am merely doing what I am told. Nautilus means nothing to me. Previously Dropbox was syncing fine. I upgraded to Linux Mint 20 and it simply ceased syncing despite the icon suggesting otherwise. I would doubt that there are files name problems as my Apple Macs have no problems; not does our Win10 PC; just the Linux Mint 20 box.
I was really hoping that someone here would have resolved this problem.
Happy to start over if anyone things that this would resolve.
Ready (again), to do what is necessary but please DropBox tech team, let's get this sorted. Thanks in anticipation !
John
If you have lost in the results, post them here. For example: how many files you have in your Dropbox folder and what's your current limitation? Are some errors coming from other commands I have mentioned? After leaving some time to the application, is there some progress and what is the status result comes from the last command?
PS: Try reset current daemon install using following:
dropbox stop rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist dropbox start -i
The last is just to force up upgrade to latest stable version/release.
So, aftre all of that, we are back to square one. The Doropbox icon is in the system tray showing Syncing 24x7 with the "recently chnaged files" being those of nearly three weeks ago.
PLEASE Dropbox tech Support. Give me step by step instructions on what I need to do to get Dropbox working again under Linut 20.
I hope we can make one more effort to sort this.
Thanks in anticipation again
John (SW France)
