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shoeb ikhlas
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Dropbox keep asking for relink after i moved my local dropbox folder to another location
I have a ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS desktop. It has a SSD on which OS is installed and a HD for other non-OS things. By default Dropbox store local data in Home dir of ubuntu. I was running out of storage, s...
shoeb ikhlas
Explorer | Level 3
Here is the screen shot
Walter
2 years agoDropbox Staff
Hey shoeb ikhlas, sorry to jump in here.
Have you by any chance tried to mount your partition when your system starts? You could also try delaying the startup of the Dropbox app so that the drive has enough time to mount. First, you'll need to disable the app's option to load at startup and then add your own startup entry for Dropbox but add the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay parameter and set it to be to the number of seconds you'd like the delay.
Finally, save this under ~/.config/autostart/sleepy-dropbox.desktop
Let us know of any updates!
- shoeb ikhlas2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
My drive is premanently mounted (means it automatically mounts as boot). I also tried disabling the auto start option and delaying the start by 15 sec. Nothing is working, it will be working fine as long as i am not restarting the PC. As I reboot my systme, the same error is UP.
- Nancy2 years agoDropbox Staff
shoeb ikhlas, can you please clarify for me if the filepath that’s been blurred out on your screenshot shows the original location of your local Dropbox folder (before you moved it), or if it shows its filepath on your HD drive instead?
- shoeb ikhlas2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Yes the path shown in the screen shot is the original path that was automatically set when I installed Dropbox.
Later on I move the path to my HDD, now it keep asking to set it back to original default path.
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