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Dropbox isn't syncing anymore after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04
I upgraded from Kubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 a little over a week ago. Since then Dropbox isn't syncing anymore. The icon in the task bar keeps switching between the network folder icon and the box icon (D...
- It's working again.I ran ~/.dropbox-dist$ strace -f ./dropboxd.[pid 8640] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/monika/Data/Dropbox/Dateien/programme/Videobearbeitung/software/otr-verwaltung3p/data/tools/intern-VirtualDub/wine/dosdevices/z:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.11.0-openjdk-amd64/legal/java.compiler", O_RDONLY|O_NOATIME|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 EPERM (Vorgang nicht zulässig) zu sehen
(The weird thing is that I had deleted all local files at one point and Dropbox had downloaded them - including the offending one.)
The "echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p" probably also was part of the solution.
Hovering over the system tray icon doesn't really do anything, but "dropbox status" in the console yields "Synchronizing".
The requirements are fulfilled, it's Ubuntu 20.04 and ext4. (As I don't have GNOME or Xfce there are no icons in the file manager to show the synchronization status, but I don't mind that.)
Try dropbox (1) - Linux Man Pages. There are some commands that might be helpful. You can try running some of them from terminal. A friend of mine had same issue, no syncing in Ubuntu 20.04. He used some of the commands provided to start the sync process.
dropbox status dropbox help [COMMAND] dropbox puburl FILE dropbox stop dropbox running dropbox start [-i] dropbox filestatus [-l] [-a] [FILE]... dropbox ls [FILE]... dropbox autostart [y/n] dropbox exclude [list] dropbox lansync [y/n]
I'm familiar with them (as you see I have just used "dropbox status", but they did not help with the problem.
I have now deleted/moved all local files from the Dropbox folder (I stopped Dropbox before) and restarted Dropbox and now things maybe started working. Now dropbox status does not show "Synchronisieren ..." (Synchronizing ...) but instead shows "Synchronisierung läuft (191.369 Dateien • 20 Std.)
191.369 Dateien werden heruntergeladen (0,0 KB/Sek., 20 Std.)" meaning "Synchronization is running/in progress" and the time and number of files.But I'm worried about the "0,0 KB/Second" speed. We will see. The folder structure has already been downloaded and a few small files.
At first the solution with deleting/moving all local files seemed to have worked fine, everything was downloaded after a day, the Dropbox icon stopped blinking, the "dropbox status" said "Aktualisiert", which may mean "current".
Now after a reboot of the computer (not sure if that is responsible) the Dropbox icon is blinking again, "dropbox status" yields "Synchronisieren ..." like it did when it was not actually synchronizing anything, the "recently changed files" submenu shows nothing. The folder with the automatic camera uploads from the phone shows photos from yesterday but not from today.
I'm afraid I'm back at square 1. I can't keep deleting and redownloading all my files and remembering which ones I have edited on my PC in the meantime to copy them back.
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the update on this, MonikaE!
Can you please try a more advanced reinstall of the Dropbox application, to see if that helps?
Also make sure to try and temporarily disable any third party apps like an antivirus or firewall that you may have.
