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gbvoris
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Dropbox won't open

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At nearly the same time (I don't use either of these frequently) Dropbox and Syncthing stopped working Syncthing does show an error at statup; but Dropbox wan't auto start enabled. Clicking on Dropbox icon does nothing, CLI dropbox start and dropbox start -1 only return "dropbox is already running."
I have removed and reinstalled dropbox by both GUI and command line, no help.
I saved screenshots of the commandline install; but this system says they're too big.
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mikeflan
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Re: Dropbox won't open

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I saved screenshots of the commandline install; but this system says they're too big.
Posting text in code tags is much better for us.

To kill processes, install htop. Then type htop in a terminal - F3 - type 'drop' - enter
If there are some dropbox processes, highlight them and do - F9 - 9 - enter.
Then to exit htop type - enter - q
Then try starting db again.
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