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mmittner's avatar
mmittner
Explorer | Level 3
13 days ago

Starting the Dropbox desktop app on another machine kills my local session (Ubuntu)

I encounter a 100% reproducible but very weird error. I have two machines running Ubuntu Linux, my laptop (24.10) and my server (22.04). I used to use Dropbox to keep the files on both of them in s...
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Walter's avatar
Walter
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13 days ago

Hey mmittner - thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Just to make sure we're on the same  page, can you clarify the version/status of the Dropbox desktop app running on your devices and how long has it been since you first noticed this?

Approximately how many files are you syncing locally on the machines you mentioned? 

Let us know more and we'll take it from there. 

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