[SOLVED] A "DropBox" question, error: Can't sync:".directory":access denied.

Robert.Thompson · 08-24-2011, 04:02 PM

I guess that this is a permission issue.

How do I give Dropbox permission to the directory and not everyone else in the world?

Is that even possible?

My DropBox folder lives on a separate partition, sda5.

Thanks,

SeRi@lDiE · 08-24-2011, 05:31 PM

As root you have to give permission to the user who is running dropbox I assume your self

IE:

Lets say your drop box folder is under /media/hdd0

Than from command line as root do chown -R robert:robert /media/hd0/dropbox
or for access to the whole dir than chown -R robert:robert /media/hd0

Than your be able to access the folder under the partition using dropbox

SeRi@lDiE · 08-24-2011, 09:55 PM

Robert,

Did it worked out for you?

Robert.Thompson · 08-25-2011, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeRi@lDiE

Robert,

Did it worked out for you?

Thanks SeRi@lDiE.

I did:

Code:

#: chown -R rob /data

Then, using Dolphin, I applied permissions to all sub folders & files of the 'data' folder - the 'DropBox' folder is a sub folder of 'data'

Now, DropBox shows a status of 'All files up to date'.

Thanks again,

Rob.

SeRi@lDiE · 08-25-2011, 09:02 AM

Awesome. Glad it worked out.