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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 that the LM version (which I re-downloaded yesterday in an attempt to solve this) is version 107.4.443 whereas the MacOS version is 108.4.453. Thsi information may have nothing to do with the problem but I mention it for information.

Please help :-)

Thanks

John

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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

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Hi there @Iplicjian; thanks for posting on our Community!

Instead of downloading and installing that version of the app, could you try compiling it from source and running it as mentioned here?

Let me know the results!

hello: Right I did precisely as requested and

user@AsusA54C:~$ tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2
tar (child): ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
user@AsusA54C:~$ tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2
tar (child): ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
user@AsusA54C:~$

However, please note that the latest version as far as I could see was this

debian/

(as I'm running Mint)

dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb

Please advise soonest as I would love to get DropBox working again!

Thanks

John

I'm going to assume you're new at the command line, so bear with me if you're a bit better.

First of all, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu. I don't know if nautilus-dropbox has a PPA with an updated version.

Second of all, you may need to install bzip2. "tar" uses external programs, and .bz2 files are compressed using bzip2.

sudo apt-get install bzip2

If you're compiling anything on your system, you'll also need the build-essentials package:

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

Hello! Yes I made an error selecting Ubuntu as I knew it was Debian. However, Whilst I am happy to follow command line instructions (and do so with some excitement actualy, having bene arond Unix for 30 years but NEVER having becoming a guru) I found the instructions a little brief to be honest.

If you would be good enough to list what I need to do, I will follow the steps faithfully! I will be VERY happy and grateful when it works too!

Thanks in anticipation :-)

John

It's fine! Just wanted to be careful.

A small hint: Ubuntu is actually based on Debian, so it's all good ether way. Debian just lags a bit behind by intention.

Now that France (where I live) is on full lock-down again, I have lots of time to help you to resolve tis issue. I just need to know the steps to follw please. It is VERY frustrating as it is efefctively stopping me from working with my Linux Mint PC because I use DropBox for all my work and private data!

Please help.

Regards

John

Still no reply / solution. Surely someone is syncing using Linux Mint 20 ? If so, please share HOW ???

Since I upgraded from Linux Mint 19 to v 20, Dropbox hasn't sync'ed and yet shows the sync'ing icon in the systerm tray.

Please help Dropbox support team.

Did you run the commands I gave?

If you did, then you can try the "tar" command again.

Yes I think I did but unclear as to what is expected to happen. Gratfeul if you could advise step by step. Am very happy with terminal but I need to know what to type :-)

Apologies in advance!

Regards from Lockdown in France !

tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1.tar.bz2

If you get no responce, that's good! Linux (like most Unixen) follow the "no news is good news" philosphoy on the command line. If stuff printed out, then you got a problem.

Your next step after that is:

cd ./nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1; ./configure; make;

And since you're on Linux Mint:

sudo make install

You will need to enter your password.

user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$ make

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

What am I missing here please ?

Run

./configure

Then

make

Thanks. This is what happened :

user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: in `/home/user/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for user:  
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.

What next please? (I am sure that there's a fundamental that I am missing. Why DropBox can't issue a clean set of instructions to support a paid-up subscriber, is beyond me. I am happy to do "under the hood" terminal work but not when it is critical to my work. I just need DropBox to provide a step by step solution. Thsi feels very much like I am asking favours from clever enthusiasts as opposed to the tech support team should should be all over this and by my side.

Many thanks again st STrRedWolf whoever you may be!

John

Oh oh... here's the error that you should have stopped with:

configure: error: in `/home/user/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Run this:

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

Then try this again from the nautilis-dropbox directory:

./configure

Let me know if there's any "error" lines like what I highlighted above.

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.

user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: in `/home/user/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
user@AsusA54C:~/Desktop/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$

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...

@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.

Results :

user@AsusA54C:~$ sudo chown -R "user" ./Dropbox
user@AsusA54C:~$ sudo chattr -R -i "user" ./Dropbox
chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat user
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/BigBlobs.apdb
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/ImageProxies.apdb
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/Properties.apdb
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/Faces.db
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/History.apdb
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/Library.apdb
user@AsusA54C:~$ chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox
user@AsusA54C:~$

@Iplicjian wrote:

Results :

...
user@AsusA54C:~$ sudo chattr -R -i "user" ./Dropbox
chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat user
chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on ./Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database/BigBlobs.apdb
...

Pay more attention when editing command, not to put there some errors! 😉 Who advise you type the above command in exactly such a way?! Seems you haven't moved your Dropbox folder and no need any modifications on the commands, that I have posted already.

Have you updated your application to the latest stable release (109.4.517 at this post moment)? What's the result from:

dropbox version

Did you try to trace any strange statuses? According to the errors, you just posted, seems there are some issues in the database folder. What is the following commands results:

cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/
ls -al
dropbox filestatus

🤔

Hope the above results will give helpful directions.

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)

Thank you. The latest results from the command line are :

user@AsusA54C:~$ cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/
user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$ ls -al
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 11 user user 4096 Oct  7 13:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 user user 4096 Oct  7 15:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 Oct  7 13:03 Albums
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 Oct  7 18:36 apdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user   18 Jan 18  2015 BigBlobs.apdb -> apdb/BigBlobs.apdb
-rw-r--r--  1 user user 2645 Sep 28  2019 DataModelVersion.plist
drwxr-xr-x  6 user user 4096 Oct  7 12:48 Faces
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user   13 Jan 18  2015 Faces.db -> apdb/Faces.db
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 Oct  7 12:59 Folders
drwxr-xr-x  3 user user 4096 Oct  7 12:48 History
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user   17 Jan 18  2015 History.apdb -> apdb/History.apdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user   22 Jan 18  2015 ImageProxies.apdb -> apdb/ImageProxies.apdb
-rw-r--r--  1 user user 1497 Jan 27  2015 Keywords.plist
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user   17 Jan 18  2015 Library.apdb -> apdb/Library.apdb
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 Oct  7 13:03 Places
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user   20 Jan 18  2015 Properties.apdb -> apdb/Properties.apdb
-rw-r--r--  1 user user  114 Jan 28  2015 SpanCache.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 user user  303 Sep 28  2019 tmSync.plist
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 Jan 18  2015 Vaults
drwxr-xr-x  3 user user 4096 Oct  7 12:48 Versions
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 Jan 18  2015 Volumes
user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$ dropbox filestatus
Dropbox isn't running!
user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$ dropbox filestatus
Albums:                 unwatched
apdb:                   unwatched
BigBlobs.apdb:          unwatched
DataModelVersion.plist: unwatched
Faces:                  unwatched
Faces.db:               unwatched
Folders:                unwatched
History:                unwatched
History.apdb:           unwatched
ImageProxies.apdb:      unwatched
Keywords.plist:         unwatched
Library.apdb:           unwatched
Places:                 unwatched
Properties.apdb:        unwatched
SpanCache.plist:        unwatched
tmSync.plist:           unwatched
Vaults:                 unwatched
Versions:               unwatched
Volumes:                unwatched
user@AsusA54C:~/Dropbox/ONLINE ONLY (cloud storage)/Dec 2014 to Jan 2015.photolibrary/Database$

Many thanks. What next please ?

All those "unwatched" don't look well. Let start step by step. You haven't checked your whatches limit yet, as I suggested. Let's make sure you have some basic tools installed using following:

sudo apt-get install tree jq

Now, current watch limits could be evaluated using following:

db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l; sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches

Most probably Dropbox folder entries are above the limit, but let see the result. 🤔

Thanks !

Installed tree (whatever that is!); no problem.

user@AsusA54C:~$ db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l; sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
Your Dropbox folder /home/user/Dropbox entries approximate count is 85186
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 8192

What next please ?

🙂 Yes, as I have guessed 85186 is much bigger than 8192! The limit have to be above the actual value. Next some reserve addition, you can use the suggestion from the error, you have received previous, without any change. I'm repeating it below:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p

To make sure limit is above the current entries count, repeat the check you just make in your previous post. Force Dropbox application to reload the just made settings using following:

dropbox stop; dropbox start; dropbox version; dropbox status

Check if the 'unwatched' entries are still unwatched (can be needed some time - many files are probably out of sync):

cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/; dropbox filestatus

🤔

Thanks very much. Done all that. No errors. Dropbox latest version and syncing. However, I am not yet seeing the hundreds of files that have been added / updated in the last four weeks.

I shall leave it to sync all day BUT, if we are still not syncing, is there anything else that we can do? For example remove all trace of Dropbox from my system and start over ?

It's clearly frustrating for you but more so for me when I think that my Win10 amd Mac systems work faultlessly as they have for YEARS !

Thanks for your support. John

user@AsusA54C:~$ echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p
[sudo] password for user:  
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000
user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox stop
Dropbox isn't responding!
user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox stop
Dropbox isn't responding!
user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...dropbox: locating interpreter
dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-LBJEwR
dropbox: initializing
dropbox: initializing python 3.7.9
dropbox: setting program path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/dropbox'
dropbox: setting python path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517:/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/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_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
Dropbox isn't running!
Done!
user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
cd ~/Dropbox/ONLIdropbox version
Dropbox daemon version: 109.4.517
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04
user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox status
Syncing 45,868 files • 2 hrs
Indexing 273 files...
Uploading 3 files...
Downloading 45,592 files (0.0 KB/sec, 2 hrs)
user@AsusA54C:~$

So, after almost 24 hrs syncing, Dropbox shows an up to date status. HOWEVER, the folders and files show me that nothing has synced for the poast month. I have executed Dropbox stop; Dropbox start and Dropbox status. Status now says and shows syncing but, after 30 seconds shows and reports Up to date. However the folders and files are NOT up to date.

Can anyone suggest what I can do, other than give up or return to a Win10 box ? :-(

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

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