Hello,
I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup and I only had to set up my local folder once.
Anyone know what would cause this behavior and how to correct it? My permissions look like:
drwx------ 5 squall squall 155 Sep 22 12:29 .dropbox drwxr-xr-x 3 squall squall 68 Jul 29 18:44 .dropbox-dist
Thank you Squall
Are you using the dropbox aur package? If not, it might be worth trying that.
Your permissions look to be the same as the ones I have locally.
drwx------ 6 joel users 4096 Sep 20 14:28 .dropbox drwxr-xr-x 3 joel users 4096 Sep 12 18:33 .dropbox-dist
Joel
Hi Squall,
2014-09-22 20:46 GMT+02:00 Squall Lionheart headmastersquall@gmail.com:
I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup and I only had to set up my local folder once.
Anyone know what would cause this behavior and how to correct it?
Do you have a particular reason for not running the dropbox package in the AUR, as Joel suggested? I'm using it without problems.
Anyway, the first thing I'd do would be to launch dropboxd from the command line to see if it outputs some useful error messages. Another thing I'd try would be to backup and then rm the .dropbox and .dropbox-dist folders (or, alternatively, setup dropbox in a clean environment, e.g. from a test user).
FWIW, my permissions are the same as yours.
Hope this helps,
Lorenzo
I removed the dropbox files I downloaded from their site and used installed using the AUR package this time. So far so good, I hope it works better for me. Thank you for your responses.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri < lorenzo.bandieri@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Squall,
2014-09-22 20:46 GMT+02:00 Squall Lionheart headmastersquall@gmail.com:
I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar
setup
and I only had to set up my local folder once.
Anyone know what would cause this behavior and how to correct it?
Do you have a particular reason for not running the dropbox package in the AUR, as Joel suggested? I'm using it without problems.
Anyway, the first thing I'd do would be to launch dropboxd from the command line to see if it outputs some useful error messages. Another thing I'd try would be to backup and then rm the .dropbox and .dropbox-dist folders (or, alternatively, setup dropbox in a clean environment, e.g. from a test user).
FWIW, my permissions are the same as yours.
Hope this helps,
Lorenzo
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