Will Dropbox truly stop working on ecryptfs Nov 2018?? My system is Lubuntu with Home folder secured with ecryptfs. What can be done to ensure Dropbox will still work??
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Will Dropbox truly stop working on ecryptfs Nov 2018?? My system is Lubuntu with Home folder secured with ecryptfs. What can be done to ensure Dropbox will still work??
Best Answer
New versions of Dropbox for Linux released after Nov 2018 only support ext4 with xattr enabled, and do not support ecryptfs (Ubuntu's encrypted home folders).
I expect if you use ecryptfs it will continue to work until you update your Dropbox to a newer version with the changes.
The updated Dropbox will work if you stop using ecryptfs or move your Dropbox folder outside of the encrypted directory, though in either of these cases you will need to migrate the files across to the non-encrypted location.
If you require encryption Dropbox will still work on an ext4 partition on top of a block encrypted device, eg using LUKS.
Note that Dropbox is a third party application not provided by Ubuntu itself.