To avoid any duplicate/conflicted file issues.Ģ) re-link my dropbox by running dropbox start -i and following the wizzardģ) Stop the download immediately by clicking the Dropbox icon in your menu bar and selecting Pause Syncing from the menu.Ĥ) Copy over all the files from the directory I renamed in step 1 into my newly created dropbox directoryĥ) Resume syncing by clicking the Dropbox icon in your menu bar and selecting Resume Syncing from the menu. Prior to re-linking, I followed the instructions outlined here: I was not able to launch dropbox as my normal user, but could launch it as other user (both root and another unprivileged user worked).ĭeleting/renaming ~/.dropbox-dist and ~/.dropboxĪfter that you you will have to re-link your dropbox account.

I'm not sure if this will help you, or others, but I ran into an issue where dropbox mysteriously stopped working on both of my RHEL 6.5 systems simultaneously. One last thing: trying to use ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd nothing happens,Įxcept for the appearing of a box in my panel 'Dropbox Setup': but clicking on this Shows forever 'Dropbbox 2.8.2 connecting. Meanwhile, no Dropdox folder appears and the Dropbbox icon This 'dropbox start/dropbox status' query may be repeated infinely many times, with the same loop as anĪnswer: 'to connect visit the following link/waiting to be connected' Waiting to be linked to a Dropbox account. ThenĬonnected to the suggested link, done the link with answer 'succesful'. Unfortunately, the 'regular instructions' that I tried to follow include thoseĬoming back to Tamasz suggestions, here is what happens:įirst an icon opens showing that Dropbox is being installed. I am sorry to be back here, without having solved my problem. Ls list directory contents with current sync statusĪutostart automatically start dropbox at loginĮxclude ignores/excludes a directory from syncing Running return whether dropbox is runningįilestatus get current sync status of one or more files Puburl get public url of a file in your dropbox Status get current status of the dropboxd Note: use dropbox help to view usage for a specific command. To link this computer to a dropbox account, visit the following url: Sudo rpm -Uvh nautilus-dropbox-1.6.0-1.fedora.*.rpm

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