Ubuntu – Dropbox isn’t running/is already running

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whenever I start my computer, dropbox does not automatically start itself aswell. Furthermore, when I try to start it using the program launcher, nothing happens. I then tried the command line (dropbox status), which gives: Dropbox isn't running!

Naturally I want to start it using the command dropbox start, which returns:

Dropbox isn't running!
Dropbox is already running!

Odd! My current workaround is to delete the .dropbox-dist and .dropbox folders from ~/ and then do dropbox start -i, which starts the installer again and gives me access to my dropbox up to the point at which I have to restart my computer.

Any solution on this?

Thanks!

Best Answer

You can fix this by installing dropbox using software-center or Type following command in terminal.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

This will integrate nautilus with dropbox. After that you don't need to check and run dropbox manually.

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I had exactly the same problem and solve it by installing dropbox following these instructions, but substituting nautilus-dropbox by dropbox. That is, I installed dropbox by executing these commands:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"

sudo apt-get update

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Ubuntu – When starting Dropbox IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

I have the exact same problem! Just made a new Ubuntu 14.02 installation today. Updated and upgraded the full system to latest patches. Then I installed Dropbox via:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

Got the following error message:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: /var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.6.6/futures-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt

Fixed the problem by:

sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus-dropbox

And then download and install Dropbox manually. https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

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