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Since August 31, 2026, when logging in after a fresh boot the Dropbox client asks me to connect my account before it can begin syncing. From what I can tell, the client starts normally, but about 20 seconds later it relaunches itself as /opt/dropbox/dropbox /corruptdball, recreates ~/.dropbox/instance_db/hostkeys,…
Using Ubuntu 24.04 Noble. Dropbox hangs. All files/folders in Dropbox folder are shown with blue circle against them which doesn't change. I've tried reinstalling Dropbox using instructions at [link removed as per Community Guidelines] I'm on Dropbox Basic plan so I can't get support from them. I've obeyed instruction to…
I’m reporting a reproducible bug, not a usage question, and would like this escalated to engineering. Summary: Files with the macOS extended attribute com.apple.ResourceFork (no namespace prefix) fail to sync from a macOS Dropbox client to a Linux Dropbox client. The Dropbox status indicator on both ends reports the…
The OS is opsnSUSE Tumbleweed Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma 6 under Wayland. Dropbox has been working flawlessly for years. However, this week I get a constant request to update the daemon on every boot. I have uninstalled the 3 distro provided packages that use the daemon, the daemon was installed per…
I have Dropbox installed on two Fedora 44 Linux systems, syncing between them. Most files sync fine, but when I create a file like this: cat > foo\\bar test ^D then dropbox filestatus foo\\bar foo\bar: unsyncable That filename works fine for everything else, but Dropbox doesn't like it. Isn't this a Dropbox bug?
Hi, I'm trying to install the dropbox client in an opensuse tumbleweed install The last time I did this, I simply installed the dropbox-cli sudo zypper in dropbox-cli Then, after the install completed, I started the app with this command: dropbox start -i The dropbox daemon duly downloaded and installed, and when…
Linux Mint 22.1 running Cinnamon Hello, Each time I reboot, a window pops up asking me to install the proprietary daemon. Clicking either OK, or Cancel yealds the same results, it pops up again next time I reboot. Also, the option "Don't show this again" gets ignored. Dropbox is installed OK, and it seems to work fine.…
The CLI command "dropbox running" returns exit code 1 when Dropbox is running and exit code 0 when it is not running. user@host:~$ ps aux | grep dropbox$ user 13953 6.9 2.8 7108024 442272 ? Ssl 07:13 1:24 /home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-252.4.3485/dropbox user@host:~$ dropbox running user@host:~$ echo $? 1…
fter intentionally waiting two weeks I upgraded my Fedora Server to 44, and now the Dropbox entry is having some issues when updating with dnf: Dropbox Repository 100% | 261.0 B/s | 1.6 KiB | 00m06s >>> Status code: 404 for http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/44/repodata/10d12831b54877b6e7bbd4635047873…
I am using Dropbox Desktop interface on Linux Debian 6: why on the scroll-down menu at the entry "recently modified files" there are always the same files and not those truly "recently modified"? Thanks
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