Dropbox howto (Page 2 of 4)

Hmm, I am not quite sure what is causing the troubles on your system. Perhaps you could try one of the other methods: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/2432/#p2432 ?

hello, i followed the guide and i got a working dropbox,

however, i made a mistake, i am using thunar under gnome (not openbox) so i created the autostart.sh directly in the .config/autostart folder.

what happens now, each time i login into my system, i get a delay of 60 seconds for everything to startup ( network manager,dropbox,  and all the autostarted programs in the session) which is really annoying.

i deleted the autostart.sh, and the problem persists, in the sessions autostart apps, i cant see anything that leads me to why i am still getting this delay.

any help is much appreciated.

Last edited by xd4 (2009-01-01 06:49:37)

Wow, excellent tip!! I was really exited about using Dropbox to sync some files between my main laptop (with windows on it ) and my Eee but reluctant to install Nautilus and 70(?) other packages... and then your solution! Thanks a lot, it works flawlessly along with corenominal's nautilus script (although I prefer PCManFM).

Last edited by TucknDar (2009-01-15 19:21:23)

Eee 901 + #! =

Hi

Got this working super using cruncheee on my 701 by using this instead:

#!/bin/bash
exec pcmanfm $@
exit 0

Would it be worth mentioning in the wiki?

Last edited by scket (2009-02-01 01:12:16)

~ is short for your home directory.  So, in my case, my home directory is /home/eric - yours might be something like /home/bobg3 or /home/bob (or sub whatever your username is in place of bob), so you'd want to put the .dropbox folder in your /home/<your username> directory.

Last edited by sewmyheadon (2009-02-06 17:48:43)

You're welcome.

/  means the root of your file  system
./ means current directory
../ means up one directory
../../ means up two directories
~ is your personal home dir

So, if you're in a terminal and browsing, say, your /etc directory and want to quickly switch to your music directory in your home folder, you can type cd ~/music.

Yup !

And if you want to go back to your home dir just type

cd

I hadn't heard about Dropbox until this post and I really am liking it.

I have one rookie question though.  Do I have to keep nautilus installed or can I uninstall it after getting dropbox working?

actually, you do NOT need to keep nautilus. A little farther down the post, you will see that you do not even have to install nautilus to get dropbox working. Just start dropboxd with autostart.sh and you are golden. I don't have nautilus installed on either of my machines with #! and Dropbox.

Michael

Scroll up and it is in this thread.

Michael

Adding an entry in the autostart isn't even necessary, all that does is put the icon in your tray.  I don't have any such dropbox entry and can access Dropbox from within my /home/user/Dropbox directory via my file manager.

when I enter nautilus, my PCMan (file manger starts) and no dropbox icon.

any help?

thanks,

gychang