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Whitesnow

Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 118 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sun 14 Dec 2014, 16:28 Post subject:
MyDbox 1.2 version available |
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December 14th, 2014 UPDATE: 1.2 version available.
Look at first post, in this thread, to find the pet.
Enjoy!
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phredo
Joined: 21 Oct 2013 Posts: 65
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Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2014, 16:33 Post subject:
Dropbox still not starting |
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I uninstalled the 2.10 version, deleted the .dropbox stuff from the root and home folders and deleted /opt/dropbox, and then installed mydropbox-1.2.
But I'm still getting the "Couldn't start dropbox" message! Perhaps something didn't get completely uninstalled before, because when I rebooted after uninstalling the earlier version and the files, I got a "can't find dropbox" or something like that upon booting.
Also, by the way, the dropbox-dist folder was created again in the root folder. After Dropbox wouldn't load, I tried moving it to home and linking back to root, but that didn't help. On the other hand, I found that mydropbox-1.2 did put the .dropbox folder in home with the link-back to root. And no /opt/dropbox folder was created.
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Whitesnow

Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 118 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2014, 19:53 Post subject:
Re: Dropbox still not starting |
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phredo wrote: | the dropbox-dist folder was created again in the root folder. After Dropbox wouldn't load, I tried moving it to home and linking back to root, but that didn't help. On the other hand, I found that mydropbox-1.2 did put the .dropbox folder in home with the link-back to root. And no /opt/dropbox folder was created. |
You have to read carefully first post in this thread. Yesterday, I updated MyDbox and its information. I wrote about new Dropbox update specific Dbus requirement, too. All is written there (follow read-more link, in that post, and install Dbus before MyDbox). I suggest to uninstall every Dropbox-related stuff again (except "Dropbox" folder) and to follow instructions.
phredo wrote: | I'm still getting the "Couldn't start dropbox" message! |
If you still have problems after procedure above, you could post temporary error file created by Dropbox (look at address in error window).
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phredo
Joined: 21 Oct 2013 Posts: 65
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Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2014, 22:04 Post subject:
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You were correct: I hadn't read the first entry. With Dbus loaded first, it now works!
But the new interface is annoying. It wouldn't let me choose my home drive, saying there was already a Dropbox folder there. I had to trick it by first renaming my Dropbox folder to something else, selecting the home drive for Dropbox, let it start to update, quit Dropbox, delete the new Dropbox folder, and rename my old folder to Dropbox. When I restarted Dropbox, it began happily indexing my files. (I did the above to save having to download all my files from the Dropbox server.)
"All's well that ends well." Thanks for being on top of everything!
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3635 Location: wales ... by the sea
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Posted: Tue 16 Dec 2014, 10:17 Post subject:
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thanks Whitesnow,
it's good to have dropbox working again
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Puppus Dogfellow

Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1669 Location: nyc
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Posted: Tue 16 Dec 2014, 15:53 Post subject:
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666philb wrote: | thanks Whitesnow,
it's good to have dropbox working again  |
yes, thank you, Whitesnow.
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Whitesnow

Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 118 Location: Italy
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Posted: Tue 16 Dec 2014, 22:41 Post subject:
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phredo wrote: | Thanks for being on top of everything! |
666philb wrote: | thanks Whitesnow,
it's good to have dropbox working again  |
Can you tell me if Dbus, that I compiled, works well in Tahrpup, too? I haven't tried yet.
Puppus Dogfellow wrote: | yes, thank you, Whitesnow. |
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3635 Location: wales ... by the sea
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Posted: Wed 17 Dec 2014, 06:41 Post subject:
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Whitesnow wrote: |
Can you tell me if Dbus, that I compiled, works well in Tahrpup, too? I haven't tried yet. |
dropbox is working fine with tahrpups native dbus
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Whitesnow

Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 118 Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed 17 Dec 2014, 20:16 Post subject:
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666philb wrote: | dropbox is working fine with tahrpups native dbus |
Good (and useful) to know and spread.
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3635 Location: wales ... by the sea
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Posted: Fri 09 Jan 2015, 06:07 Post subject:
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hi Whitesnow,
it might be worth including the dropbox.py script https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py it allows you to control dropbox from the command line.
for instance i have a small script in my public folder.
Code: | #!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/dropbox.py puburl "$@" | xclip -i -selection clipboard |
if i drag a file from my public folder onto it , i get the download link put straight into the clipboard.
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Whitesnow

Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 118 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2015, 11:18 Post subject:
Integration of dropbox.py script in MyDbox |
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Hi 666philb,
I knew that script, but I never thought about its potentiality, until now.
Next release of MyDbox will download that script, too.
666philb wrote: | for instance i have a small script in my public folder.
Code: | #!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/dropbox.py puburl "$@" | xclip -i -selection clipboard |
if i drag a file from my public folder onto it , i get the download link put straight into the clipboard. |
Many thanks for sharing this useful script!
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Puppus Dogfellow

Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1669 Location: nyc
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Posted: Mon 11 May 2015, 15:01 Post subject:
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working well in fatdog701.
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Puppus Dogfellow

Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1669 Location: nyc
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Posted: Tue 23 Jun 2015, 13:41 Post subject:
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working well in Quirky Aprli 64 7.0.4.1
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bfg

Joined: 12 Oct 2015 Posts: 1 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon 12 Oct 2015, 09:45 Post subject:
Re: MyDbox 1.2 version available |
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Whitesnow wrote: | December 14th, 2014 UPDATE: 1.2 version available.
Look at first post, in this thread, to find the pet.
Enjoy!  |
Thank you very much Whitesnow
Finally Dropbox works on Quirky 7.2.1 32bit using dbus-1.8.12_i686.pet from your repository and after the following command...
Code: | dbus-uuidgen > /etc/machine-id |
Still there is no autostart but it is no too bad: I can start from Internet Menu.
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kenh

Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 18 Location: Tampa Bay
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Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2016, 08:54 Post subject:
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It works fine for me in Slacko 6.3.2. I really needed Dropbox for my netbook.
Thanks for doing this!
Ken
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