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Desktop App won't start any more
My Desktop app will no longer start. I get this error window. The app still starts on my laptop, and the web version of dropbox works. I recently deleted some folders/files from my folder location to clear some space. Not sure if that had anything to do with it, but very frustrating. I'm attaching a screen grab of the error message. I have uninstalled/reinstalled twice, and even let D-Box create/sync with an App-Chosen location for the folder.
Hi jigsaw83, I checked, and it seems you were using a beta version of our app.
Can you try to switch to a stable one, and check how things go? You can do this by accessing your account settings on the Dropbox website and turn Early releases off.
Once that is done, feel free to re-install the app.
Walter and everyone,
The workaround for the foreseeable future over here seems to be to uninstall/re-install Dropbox, let the App start and sync, and then don't turn the computer off...ever. Strange that this has never come up before. Maybe Dropbox does not like something in the shutdown/restart/reboot sequence, and then just won't start. I hope someone can see something in the error report though, so that I can turn the computer off again sometime.
Thanks for the reply Walter! Here the text of the error log:
bn.BUILD_KEY: Dropbox
bn.VERSION: 177.4.5399
bn.constants.WINDOWS_SHELL_EXT_VERSION: 61
bn.is_frozen: True
machine_id: a82fa33e-e516-4993-aba8-0a75511c95b8
pid: 2928
cwd: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client'
real_path='C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client'
mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
HOME: None
appdata: 'C:\\Users\\482ma\\AppData\\Local\\Dropbox\\instance1'
real_path='C:\\Users\\482ma\\AppData\\Local\\Dropbox\\instance1'
mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
dropbox_path: 'C:\\Users\\482ma\\Dropbox'
real_path='C:\\Users\\482ma\\Dropbox'
mode=0o40555 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
sys_executable: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client\\Dropbox.exe'
real_path='C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client\\Dropbox.exe'
mode=0o100777 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
trace.__file__: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client\\177.4.5399\\python-packages.zip\\dropbox\\client\\ui\\common\\boot_error.pyc'
real_path='C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client\\177.4.5399\\python-packages.zip\\dropbox\\client\\ui\\common\\boot_error.pyc'
not found
parent not found
TMP: C:\Users\482ma\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP: C:\Users\482ma\AppData\Local\Temp
tempdir: 'C:\\Users\\482ma\\AppData\\Local\\Temp'
real_path='C:\\Users\\482ma\\AppData\\Local\\Temp'
mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40777 uid=0 gid=0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "desktop/dropbox/client/main.py", line 5272, in _setup_root_for_account
File "desktop/dropbox/client/features/cloud_files_migration/gating.py", line 29, in should_migrate_to_cloud_files
File "desktop/dropbox/client/installer/win_installer_sparse_msix.py", line 156, in is_sparse_msix_registered
_bowbow.hresult_error: 0x87AF000B: The database disk image is malformed- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the additional info and the error log, Mark G.16.
Can you try performing an advanced reinstall of the app? That should resolve this issue for good.
