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Wget or Curl is not downloading a folder as expected via the CLI in Linux
I am trying to download a shared folder into a unix server. I first copied that folder to my dropbox and then generated a share link. The link looks something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxxx/AB1xxxxxxx?rlkey=123456abc&dl=1 I have tried multiple CLI commands. Some of them are below: wget https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&dl=1 wget https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&dl=1 --content-disposition curl -L -o output.zip https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&dl=1 None of them download the folder but download some script instead. I have tried pasting the URL on the web browser and that works and I can see a ~140GB zipped file starting a download. Also, I have also tested TLS connection as I saw in another post that it might have an impact. TLS v1.2 seems to be working in my CLI but not v1.3. Any help is greatly appreciated as I have been stuck on this for so many days now! TIA
How can I use selective sync on Linux?
Guys: I would like to use the Dropbox CLI to perform “Selective Sync” on a sub-directory, $HOME/Dropbox/level1/level2. The following are my sample commands in Linux: dropbox exclude add $HOME/Dropbox/* dropbox exclude remove $HOME/Dropbox/level1/level2 However, the second command does not work. If I change it to “dropbox exclude remove $HOME/Dropbox/level1”, it will work. Looks like the command only works under directory, $HOME/Dropbox, it will not go down to next level of sub-directories. Could you shine some light on this? Thanks! Yi
How can I make files online-only on Ubuntu?
Dear all Recently, I moved from Windows 11 to Ubuntu 24.04 in my laptop. During my journey in Windows, I was always very pleased with the integration between Dropbox and my operating system, as I could browse all the folders in my Dropbox account locally on my laptop without having to go to the web browser, even those that were not synced to my computer (i.e. I could access the folders not downloaded to my computer, see the file names... and when I double-clicked on a file, it would be downloaded to my computer and I could access it quickly and easily). When I downloaded and synced Dropbox with Ubuntu on my laptop, all the files and folders in my Dropbox account started to store a copy locally on my computer. For those folders that took up a lot of space and that I wasn't going to use at the moment, I right-clicked on them and checked the option to not sync with dropbox.com. However, this did not have the effect of clearing the space that these folders were taking up, with the desired functionality of being able to browse my laptop locally and see their names and be able to access them even if they weren't synced. I was wondering if there was a way to mimic this functionality that I enjoyed on Windows.When installing Dropbox on Linux, it doesn't create a Dropbox folder.
I am installing Dropbox on a new Linux computer (Ubuntu 20.04, gnome-flashback). I ran ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd but it stopped without completing. The last line it printed was dropbox: load fq extension '/home/gershwin/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/PyQt5.QtDBus.so It did not create a Dropbox folder. How can I complete the installation?
How to share a Dropbox folder between Windows and Linux installs on the same PC?
Currently it is impossible to share a Dropbox folder between Windows and Linux installs on the same PC. They appear to contain the same files with the same metadata, but Dropbox for Linux refuses to write to an NTFS partition, and similarly Dropbox for Windows refuses to write to ext4. Is there a workaround for this? I don't want two copies of everything. I have been a loyal Dropbox user for years because I believe in supporting software that does one thing and does it well, but this "no mixing filesystems" rule means I have to choose between Dropbox and my dual-boot. I would love it if I didn't have to choose, and I'm sure I'm not alone!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 sync for years and it has always worked perfectly (I am on a paid plan and have a pretty large amount of files). I use the latest version of the dropbox client for linux on both machines. Now the problem: When the dropbox client is running on my laptop and I start up the dropbox client on the server, reliably, after about 10 seconds, my local laptop freezes and kills my X session (i.e., all apps are killed, I am logged out and presented with a login screen). In the meantime, on the server, the dropbox client has been killed but the server keeps running just fine. This is very disconcerting, how can what I do on the remote machine cause my local machine to crash?? Any advice on what I could try to resolve this? I have already tried setting up the limit for inotify with sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am considering canceling my Dropbox subscription.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 fully starting, but I could not find a viable solution other than reinstalling everything and re-sync'ing, which seems cumbersome as I use a lot of selective sync. Where are the dropbox logs to check to see what is going on and is there a way to stop auto-updating? Previous version was working fine and I find that dropbox often releases buggy updates. Is there a stable stream that clients can sit in for longer without having to update so often? linux $ cat VERSION 218.4.4348 I tried running ./dropboxd and got the same behavior but with some console output: dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.abi3.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.abi3.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/apex._apex.abi3.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/google._upb._message.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' <frozen zipimport>:259: UserWarning: google.protobuf.service module is deprecated. RPC implementations should provide code generator plugins which generate code specific to the RPC implementation. service.py will be removed in Jan 2025 dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/PyQt5.QtCore.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/PyQt5.sip.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/PyQt5.QtGui.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/PyQt5.QtWidgets.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/demo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348/PyQt5.QtDBus.so' "dropbox status" says the same "Starting..." Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Having trouble installing the desktop app on Ubuntu
Go to https://www.dropbox.com/install Click on the huge button that says Install in the middle of the screen. Login or skip Result: You get a message that says "Allow this site to open the dropbox-client link with System Handler?". Upon clicking yes, nothing happens. When clicking on the "Problems downloading?" Try again link, it downloads an index.html file. * There is a tiny link at the top of the screen that works for linux, but it is quite ridiculous to have to find it and use it instead of "Install".
Unable to install the desktop app on Fedora 41.
I need to install the Desktop App for Selective Sync. I've downloaded the Fedora rpm and installed it. I installs a filemanager. When I click on the 'open dropbox app' the screen blinks and is redisplayed. What are the steps for installing the Dropbox app? Thanks
