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filesystem on Linux for SD card for Dropbox sync
I have a super small drive on my ultraportable lenovo 100s. I want to sync several gb of stuff from my dropbox onto it, so I have equipped it with a western digital purple sd card.
I plan to use that ...
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"Renaming" Dropbox (Personal) folder as a plain Dropbox folder? Looking for smylink command on all OS
Dropbox's desktop client will create two separate Dropbox folders if one uses a linked personal account with an enterprise account (in my case, this is a Dropbox account within an institution's own ...
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Ubuntu server 18.04 user permissions
I've set up an Ubuntu Server 18.04 where I have a Dropbox app running over user0. This app is set up to make a directory backup. I have two directories: /home/user/dropbox/user1 and /home/user/dropbox/...
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Transfer directory of links to new pc
I am trying to simply copy my Dropbox directory over to my new pc. Everything is the same, username, directory structure etc.
The Dropbox directory is full of links. Nothing I try works. I have tried ...
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How do I move my Dropbox folder on a headless Linux system?
I am using a headless system with remote access only visa ssh. My file system is btrfs. To prepare for the upcoming ext4 shift, I created a ext4 image file -
dd if=/dev/zero of=dropbox.ext4.img bs=...
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How to change Dropbox directory on Ubuntu 16.04 outside of encrypted home folder
In November this year, Dropbox will stop sync in case home folder is encrypted (full disk encryption is supported). I have tried to move synch folder outside /home to folder on the Ext4 partition but ...
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How to share dropbox folder between Ubuntu Linux and Windows?
Currently my dropbox is on an NTFS filesystem which is shared between windows and ubuntu. However, dropbox is removing support for NTFS on linux in Nov. I tried creating a symlink to my NTFS dropbox ...
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Sync Dropbox to lowercase folder
I am in the process of lowercasing my linux system, but I found a hurdle: Dropbox partout does not want to reside in a lowercased folder.
Changing the folder via GUI, it always wants to go into a ...
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dropbox showing "Downloading X files..." for ever
I have dropbox 52.4.58 installed on a Linux VM (Lubuntu 18.04 LTS). The dropbox instance can never finish syncing my folder and reach the Up to date status as a Windows version does on the same folder....
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Connect remotely to Dropbox service from a server
I wonder how to authenticate a remote linux server with dropbox daemon installed without X server.
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How can I use inotifywait on Raspbian to watch a directory for file changes and upload changed files only using dropbox-uploader.sh?
How can I use inotifywait on Raspbian to watch a directory for file changes and upload changed files only using dropbox-uploader.sh?
Hello,
Please note I am using dropbox-uploader.sh by Andrea ...
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Is it possible to see what dropboxd is syncing right now?
The dropbox.py script for dropboxd on linux will give current status:
$ dropbox.py status
Syncing (2,656 files remaining)
Uploading 2,656 files...
Or status of a specific file or current folder:
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Dropbox: Unable to monitor dropbox folder
I'm using Dropbox on an Arch Linux System. Everything worked fine for months now, until today. When running Dropbox from command line, it prints the error message:
Unable to monitor entire Dropbox ...
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How download dropbox directory or files with command line on a linux server [duplicate]
I need to move a very big directory from dropbox to S3 ~250GB, but don't find an easy way to do it. (I don't have credential of dropbox it is a shared link)
1) From my browser trying to download the ...
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How do I change the Dropbox (for Business) location on a headless Linux server
Im trying to adjust the path Dropbox syncs to on a headless installation. I use a Synology, so there`s no way to connect a monitor.
By default Dropbox syncs all data in /root/Dropbox (Company_name). ...
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