Saturday, June 21, 2014

DropBox Quit Working on Ubuntu 14.04

I noticed that Dropbox had quit working when I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04.  I kept getting a Crash Report window when I rebooted.  When I checked the details of the Crash Report I saw it was Dropbox.

I then noticed that the Dropbox icon was missing from Menu Bar at the top of my desktop.  I tried several things including uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing worked.  After a little Google searching I found this:

1.  Start a Terminal Window

2.  Type the following into the Terminal Window and hit ENTER:
        sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist

3.  Type the following into the Terminal Window and hit ENTER:
        dropbox start -i

4.  If asked for your sudo password (mine did) type it in.

5.  Wait  a few seconds and you will see in the Terminal Window that it is downloading the Dropbox program and then unpacking it.

6.  After step 5 finishes your Dropbox should be working again and you should see it's icon is back in the Menu Bar.

DONE!