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Dropbox is dropping support for ecryptfs directories. Is it possible to create a directory outside the encrypted home directory that a user can access, where the Dropbox folder can be moved to?

slatica
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  • Supposedly yes but so many changes happened recently with Dropbox that I'm not sure what are their current requirements. –  Oct 24 '18 at 12:35
  • The above should be understood as "supposedly yes" to creating a folder in a non-encrypted partition somewhere else. Whether or not Dropbox can use it I don't know. Ask them. –  Oct 24 '18 at 13:24
  • Does the version of dropbox you installed have a man page or help text (-h or --help maybe) or documentation? If it's the GUI, it should have a setting under a Sync tab I think – Xen2050 Oct 25 '18 at 17:54

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Yes, this is possible.

Assuming you have sudo rights (and your /home partition is on an Ext4 filesystem) you can simply create a new folder outside of your home directory (e.g. /home/dropbox) and tell Dropbox to move itself to this folder.

Don't forget to set the appropriate permissions on the new folder so your account has access.

sudo mkdir -m 700 /home/dropbox
sudo chown yourname:yourgroup /home/dropbox

I've just done this, and although Dropbox initially seemed to be confused (it thought that the destination folder was still not on a supported partition), after unlinking and relinking my account it is now syncing happily.

Martin
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