Dropbox could not start

Question

I have problems starting Dropbox, My Dropbox folder path is set to a different internal hard drive from my Ubuntu 16.04 installation drive.

I get the following error message:

Uninstalling and reinstalling did nothing. Running chmod 777 did nothing

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/media/mark/mystuff/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/prefetch_cache'. But i cannot acces the folder. — Mark G, Aug 17 '16 at 09:56
And I know not to 777 my dropbox but desperate times call for desperate measures — Mark G, Aug 17 '16 at 10:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '16 at 12:54

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What I ended up doing:

Delete Dropbox:

sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus-dropbox

Manually delete the dropboxfolder:

sudo rm -r Dropbox

Install dropbox again. and it stated syncing

answered Aug 17 '16 at 12:54

Mark G

This seemed to work for me. The only thing I can think of that I did wrong the first time was potentially not restarting Nautilus when prompted. – Tahlor Jul 17 '18 at 16:36

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