Sudden problem with caja-dropbox

[GeekBone]

@BMN

I have been using caja-dropbox with Ubuntu Mate to synchronize files between my home and office computers for a while now (around a year at least), and only recently noticed a problem (i.e., I am unaware of any changes on my end that could be causing it). The client will only display “Starting,” and is not actually synchronizing any of my files.

Brave AI came back with this.

You are experiencing an issue with caja-dropbox on Ubuntu MATE where the client displays "Starting" but does not synchronize files. This problem can be caused by several factors, and the following solutions have been reported to work in similar situations:

• If you are using the Mate desktop, you should try uninstalling nautilus-dropbox and installing caja-dropbox instead.
  askubuntu

• You can try stopping caja-dropbox, removing the .dropbox and .dropbox-dist folders, and then reinstalling caja-dropbox.
  ubuntu-mate community

• Another approach is to stop caja-dropbox, remove the existing configuration, and then reinstall it.
  ubuntu-mate community

• If the issue persists, you might need to check the permissions and ownership of your Dropbox folder and related files using commands like sudo chown and sudo chmod.
  Dropbox

• Additionally, if you encounter an error message about not being able to monitor the Dropbox folder hierarchy, you can run the following command to increase the inotify watch limit: echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p.
  antropy.co.uk

It is also possible that the problem is related to the specific version of Ubuntu MATE you are using, and updating your system or the caja-dropbox package might resolve the issue.

Not sure if any of these will help.