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zephyr707's avatar
zephyr707
Helpful | Level 6
3 days ago

Dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348 is stuck at "Starting..."

I feel like I have had this issue before, but can't remember the solution. Searching around it seems like there are a lot of similar issues with "Starting..." as dropboxd status and never resolves to...
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Nancy's avatar
Nancy
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2 days ago

Thanks for posting on our Community, zephyr707! Welcome back.

I’m afraid that it’s necessary for the Dropbox app to update regularly to the latest app version, not only to have access to the latest features, but for enhanced security, as well.

To check this further though, I’d like you to right-click on your local Dropbox folder and send me a screenshot of its properties. More specifically, I’d like to know if it contains more than 300k files. 

Let me know once you have more info.

  • zephyr707's avatar
    zephyr707
    Helpful | Level 6
    24 hours ago

    Hi Nancy,

    Thanks for your reply. I have 101460 items according to the properties. 90308 files, 195 symlinks, 10957 directories according to find command in terminal. I've just noticed that this dropbox process pegs my CPU and then eats memory until it takes over all available memory and then swaps me out until OOM killer takes over and starts killing my other programs. Not sure what's going on here, but I've stopped the process and closed dropbox, it never left the spinning loading icon with "Starting..."

    Does your team have any logs or anything to debug? I always sense there is just going to be the common solution of doing the big reinstall, which, as I've mentioned in my first post, is not desirable due to using a lot of selective sync that becomes cumbersome to re-implement. Is there a way to export folders marked for selective sync to a file and re-import that file after reinstalling?

    thank you

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