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08-24-2011, 05:02 PM
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Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: LinuxMint 20 Cinnamon
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A "DropBox" question, error: Can't sync:".directory":access denied.
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,
Last edited by Robert.Thompson; 08-24-2011 at 05:04 PM.
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08-24-2011, 06:31 PM
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Registered: Jun 2006
Location: /dev/null
Distribution: Slackware 13.1, Slackware 13.37, aptosid, rhel
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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
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2 members found this post helpful.
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08-24-2011, 10:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: /dev/null
Distribution: Slackware 13.1, Slackware 13.37, aptosid, rhel
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Robert,
Did it worked out for you?
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08-25-2011, 09:56 AM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: LinuxMint 20 Cinnamon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SeRi@lDiE
Robert,
Did it worked out for you?
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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.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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08-25-2011, 10:02 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: /dev/null
Distribution: Slackware 13.1, Slackware 13.37, aptosid, rhel
Posts: 547
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Awesome. Glad it worked out.
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