Ubuntu – Dropbox does not sync on ubuntu 14.04

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For mysterious reasons dropbox is not working anymore.
I have added few small pdf to my folder and it is syncing them for hours. I have tried to remove and reinstall dropbox but nothing is changed.

I suspect this can be due a possible recent ubuntu update. Has anyone the same problem or now how to solve it?

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I had the same problem, I removed the .dropbox hidden folder (located at home directory) and reinstalled Dropbox again.

But according to https://www.dropbox.com/help/72 you can reset ownership an permissions running the following commands:

sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME"
sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox ~/.dropbox-master
sudo chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox ~/.dropbox-master

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Dropbox should not have any problems using a symlinked "Dropbox folder".

Make sure the dropbox folder on your win partition is synced and uptodate.

dropbox stop
cd /home/$user/Dropbox
tar cvfz /home/$user/backup.tar.gz *
rm -R /home/$user/Dropbox
ln -s /pathtowindowspartition/User/Dropbox /home/$user/Dropbox 
cd /home/$user/Dropbox
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Other people are having this problem. Check this thread in Dropbox forum.

There is a workaround that worked for me that is using Dropbox through a proxy. I recommend a private proxy for security reasons.

Here are instructions on how to setup a proxy using AWS. Then setup Dropbox to use the proxy and your files should start synching again.

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