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Stuck on "upgrading dropbox"
As of today Dropbox is permanently stuck on "upgrading Dropbox". I'm running Dropbox in Linux. I've found references to such error messages a good while back by Googling, but no simple fix.
Huh? That was not solved. Asking for a screenshot is not solving this problem!
Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff- How can I tell which version I'm running? Dropbox on Linux seems to have zero possibility to show the version. I'm installing the newest one from your website, it does not refer to the version you mention, but says 2019.02.14. I will see if the problem reoccurs.
- Lusil
So I figured this out: Dropbox seems to check for a new version and if one is available, then fails to upgrade to it.
From then on, it keeps saying "upgrading Dropbox" constantly. This never gets better, unless I upgrade it by hand. Is there way to fix this or prevent it from trying to upgrade?
It is very annoying, as it constantly makes it look like Dropbox is still syncing. I also don't see any files that are being synced, as the "dropbox upgrading message overlays any other messages.
This has been true for any Dropbox version going back about 1 year from the date of this post. It would be more professional of you if you could make Dropbox log error messages, this makes a problem like this solvable.
This is on Debian Stable (Stretch) Linux.
