Is it just me, or is the ability to choose the location of the Dropbox folder, apart from the standard "/home/[USER]/Dropbox", now broken in the new nemo-dropbox package?
This has been working flawless with the "old" nautilus-dropbox package under mint 13. But now the field for choosing the location just remains grayed out and the same. Sometimes you also get the error-message "Target folder is already your dropbox".
Please note that others are facing the same problem - see https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=93378
Any help would be appreciated
Can't choose Dropbox location
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Can't choose Dropbox location
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Re: Can't choose Dropbox location
Yes, I had same problem and solved it this way.
1) Set up Dropbox in the only place it would let me: /home/username/Dropbox
I did this with Advanced setup, and unselected almost all files, so it didn't try to put a lot of files there yet.
There seems to be no alternative to this step.
2) Edited Dropbox preferences to MOVE the folder to where I wanted it. Some have said you must type in the name, but I think I just navigated to the directory. Anyway, one of those worked. I moved it to: /home/username/documents/Dropbox
I'm running Linux Mint 14.
1) Set up Dropbox in the only place it would let me: /home/username/Dropbox
I did this with Advanced setup, and unselected almost all files, so it didn't try to put a lot of files there yet.
There seems to be no alternative to this step.
2) Edited Dropbox preferences to MOVE the folder to where I wanted it. Some have said you must type in the name, but I think I just navigated to the directory. Anyway, one of those worked. I moved it to: /home/username/documents/Dropbox
I'm running Linux Mint 14.
Re: Can't choose Dropbox location
The only issue with this is that I think it won't recognize the Dropbox folder in the old location, and will re-download and overwrite all files instead of checking and syncing the directory that's there. I'll give it a try, and report back my find.
Edit: Upon attempting to move the Dropbox folder to a previous location (where my old Dropbox folder still is), this error is shown:
It still thinks that's my current directory, even when Dropbox states in its preferences that the current directory is still in my home root.
On top of that, I had deleted both the .dropbox and .dropboxd folder from my home folder before doing this! Is there some hidden configuration directory somewhere? I think that might by the culprit. (I already checked dconf, gconf, and mateconf because I had previous installs with them)
Edit 2: I just thought of something. I created a symbolic link ~/Dropbox pointing to my dropbox folder on a separate drive. I thought I installed dropbox with the actual location in its settings (not ~/Dropbox), because I know it's a bad idea for Dropbox to operate in a symbolic link (they claimed so on their wiki or forums).
However, I may have had it set up in the symbolic link. I can't remember. I wasn't having issues, and for me, if it isn't broken I don't need to fix it. lol.
Edit 3: Well, apparently that "current Dropbox" error shows up regardless of where I try to move, whether the old one is there or not.
I'm filing a bug.
Bug report here.
Edit: Upon attempting to move the Dropbox folder to a previous location (where my old Dropbox folder still is), this error is shown:
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Target folder is your current Dropbox!
On top of that, I had deleted both the .dropbox and .dropboxd folder from my home folder before doing this! Is there some hidden configuration directory somewhere? I think that might by the culprit. (I already checked dconf, gconf, and mateconf because I had previous installs with them)
Edit 2: I just thought of something. I created a symbolic link ~/Dropbox pointing to my dropbox folder on a separate drive. I thought I installed dropbox with the actual location in its settings (not ~/Dropbox), because I know it's a bad idea for Dropbox to operate in a symbolic link (they claimed so on their wiki or forums).
However, I may have had it set up in the symbolic link. I can't remember. I wasn't having issues, and for me, if it isn't broken I don't need to fix it. lol.
Edit 3: Well, apparently that "current Dropbox" error shows up regardless of where I try to move, whether the old one is there or not.
I'm filing a bug.
Bug report here.