Dropbox not working in LL2.2

[Scott(0)]

Hi Lorne,

I probably should have used the words "problem device" instead. Here's a picture from the dropbox website, it lists all the devices successfully linked to my Dropbox account.



Clicking the "x" next to any device will delete the link between dropbox and the device.

Now the icon is visible in the panel, but in a greyed out state.

In my experience the greyed out state means no network/internet connection or there's a problem with the login (link) between the device and dropbox. I think it's safe to assume network connectivity is not the problem.

So, if you delete the device link from dropbox.com that corresponds to the computer with the greyed out icon, I wonder if this will cause the device to re-prompt for login credentials, which would hopefully result in a (new) working device link to be created, which would hopefully fix the greyed out icon.

[newvista]

Hey Scott,

Thanks, that's clearer now. At some point yesterday I logged in to dropbox and cleared out a bunch of old linked computers, including this one, that had windoze on it previously. This morning when I turned on this computer, laptop 64 bit LL2.2, the dropbox icon was responding normally, more or less...

After uninstalling and reinstalling dropbox again, when I'm logged out of my dropbox account, dropbox panel indicator is locked in a perpetual state of connecting... I can access the right click menu but nothing there is live. 'Cause I'm logged out?

Stop the daemon, log in to dropbox account, start dropbox, the panel indicator is in the same state as above - it's alive but not effective, in my dropbox account Settings/Security/ I see this browser logged in but no link to this computer.

Are there config files on this machine that persist through an uninstall/reinstall?

Getting closer,
Lorne.

[newvista]

OK, it's working now. What I did:

- uninstall dropbox
- renamed two hidden folders in /home/username/ .dropbox and .dropbox-dist to x.dropbox and x.dropbox-dist
- reinstall dropbox
- log out of dropbox account
- start dropbox
- the program prompted for my credentials and set up a link to my dropbox account.

It must have been an old link to this computer when it had Win7 on it (last week) with the same computer name that caused the mix up in the first place.

Thanks to Scott and altman et al for your patience and guidance,
Lorne.

[altman]

Glad that you got it working !