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1.  Rian H.
   Dropboxer
   Posts: 234

   Hey Everyone,

   If you had problems with recent builds on linux, make sure to download 416. Thank Ariel G. for providing us with some extra info. If you're a mac user, stay frosty! tasty treats on the way in the next week.

   0.6.416
   - Fix a segmentation fault on linux that was preventing Dropbox from starting for many users
   - The obligatory and mysterious "more minor bug fixes"

   0.6.415
   - A couple more minor syncing/stability improvements

   0.6.414
   - Fixed bug where dropbox would force a relink on every boot
   - A couple more minor stability improvements

   0.6.410
   - Syncing large files is now much more reliable.
   - Better handling of proxy servers (fixes some cases where a Dropbox restart was required to sync).
   - Tray icon is a lot prettier on Linux machines.
   - More bug fixes surrounding moving your Dropbox folder.
   - Various other tiny fixes :)

   Win: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%200.6.416.exe
   Mac: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%200.6.416.dmg
   Linux x86_64: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.6.416.tar.gz
   Linux x86: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.416.tar.gz

   For an error free install on Linux, first make sure Dropbox is stopped by choosing "Stop Dropbox" from the tray icon menu. Then run the following commands in your home directory:

   $ rm -r .dropbox-dist/
   $ tar xzf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.6.416.tar.gz # or x86

   Then start Dropbox again from Nautilus. :)

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Zalt W.
   Member
   Posts: 222

   Nice,
   i will give it a try.
   Congrats to your president! Hopefully he is better than the last jerk...

   Cheers,
   Zalt

   Posted 1 year ago #

3.  Arash F.
   Dropboxer
   Posts: 3075

   I was waiting for your post - hoping dropbox won't show 'connecting...' anymore :).

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. lx l.
   Member
   Posts: 5

   to developer:

   I downloaded dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.410.tar.gz, if I login as a normal user,
   /home/<user>/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &
   is OK, but if I login as root to run
   su -c /home/<user>/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd <user> &
   I got
   "Session terminated, killing shell... ...killed."

   PLEASE, tell me what that means, and how to solve the problem. I asked this question 2 times before and never got answers from dropbox developer. I need the 'su' command to work because I want to run dropboxd in startup script.

   Thank you.

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. Zalt W.
   Member
   Posts: 222

   Hi there,
   what a pleasure.

   So, i gave it a try....
   ...and no,
   it doesn't show connecting any more. We are "up to date" now. Even the green arrow is where it has to be on the Dropboxt tray. Files get synced immediately if changes happen on some other end (web or client).
   Nice! Looks good to me.

   Cheers,
   Zalt

   Posted 1 year ago #

6.  Rian H.
   Dropboxer
   Posts: 234

   Hi lx, sorry for the trouble. Dropbox doesn't support being run with "su -c" without the & tagged onto the end of the command. try this:

   $ su -c ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

   hope that helps :)

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. David W.
   Member
   Posts: 122

   Downloading... Thanks!

   Posted 1 year ago #

8. N. N.
   Member
   Posts: 2452

   Rian: Unfortunately the only change I see in the icon, is that the grey area around it has expanded. :-\ This is running Kubuntu 8.04 64-bit version, deleted the ~/.dropbox-dist folder before upgrading too.
   https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/228121/tray.png

   On a more happy note: The RAM usage has dropped about 60 MB (and almost 250 MB Virt) with this new client, so good work! :-D

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. John O.
   Member
   Posts: 4

   All good with me and my proxies again, cheers :)

   Posted 1 year ago #

10. Vadim P.
    Member
    Posts: 26

    Will dropbox auto-update?

    Posted 1 year ago #

11. Andreas I.
    Member
    Posts: 10

    The tray icon looks like it should with 0.6.410 under gnome, no grey background anymore. thanks :)

    Posted 1 year ago #

12. David W.
    Member
    Posts: 122

    Working great for me thks.

    Posted 1 year ago #

13. Tekin B.
    Member
    Posts: 3

    Transparency of the tray icon works now.. great!

    Lets see at my next reboot if the icon position will be at the notification area.

    Posted 1 year ago #

14. Marcelo C.
    Member
    Posts: 1

    I had to say that Dropbox is SO GOOD I took the liberty of making a tutorial in Portuguese BR to send to all customers of my clients...
    I have been advocating using Dropbox as a "permanent link" between my clients and their customers [almost 100% are non-english speakers]...
    if interested just take a look:
    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/148738/Tutorial%20Dropbox/Tutorial%20Dropbox.htm

    Thanks and keep up the great work...
    and if by any chance you guys are interested in offering Dropbox in other languages, please contact me, for I could collaborate translating it into Brazilian Portuguese...

    regards://marcelo

    Posted 1 year ago #

15. Jeff C.
    Member
    Posts: 1

    Thanks for the update and like Marcelo C. if you want someday to translate it I could give a hand for a French one.

    Posted 1 year ago #

16. Cam E.
    Member
    Posts: 34

    to Rian:

    > Hi lx, sorry for the trouble. Dropbox doesn't support being run with "su -c" without the & tagged
    > onto the end of the command. try this:

    > $ su -c ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

    > hope that helps :)

    sorry, it does not.
    1. I run
    su -c ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &
    and still get the same error:
    Session terminated, killing shell... ...killed.

    2. I want to run dropboxd as a normal user (not root) and I don't see how your command achieves that.

    Can you explain in what circumstance we get this "Session terminated, killing shell... ...killed."?

    Posted 1 year ago #

17. N. N.
    Member
    Posts: 2452

    Cam: I found the problem, take a look here:
    http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=2981&replies=35

    Posted 1 year ago #

18. Cam E.
    Member
    Posts: 34

    Thanks N.N, su "blah blah &" works.

    But I still wondering why "session terminated" happens...

    One more question to you: how do you monitor dropboxd is still running? have a watchdog checking (pgrep) every 5 minutes?

    Posted 1 year ago #

19. N. N.
    Member
    Posts: 2452

    Not that I'm running any headless instances, but I usually have top running in a terminal window regardless. For spot checking "ps aux | grep dropbox" works as well, and can be adopted into cronjob.

    Posted 1 year ago #

20. Thomas S.
    Member
    Posts: 30

    Didn't install under XP, former versions have all been problem-free. MAde sure to close down old version first.

    "Error opening file for writing:
    c:\program files\dropbox\python25.dll"

    Posted 1 year ago #

21.  Marcus W.
    Pro User
    Posts: 29

    Hi there, i moved many pictures (nearly 1000) moved to the dropbox-folder in my ubuntu 8.10 home-folder. Normally, when i rightclick the dropbox-icon, the statusline, where is written what dropbox does, refreshes every second. now, i have to do permanently rightclikc to see what is actually go on.
    this wasnt so the versions before i think

    Posted 1 year ago #

22.  Michael N.
    Dropboxer
    Posts: 2428

    Thomas,

    Try checking task manager to see if maybe dropbox.exe is still somehow running and kill it if it is. You could also try uninstalling your older version, then installing the newer one.

    Posted 1 year ago #

23.  Michael H.
    Dropboxer
    Posts: 56

    Marcus,
    Yes, we are aware of this issue. It was a necessary loss for some changes under the hood; it will be fixed in a future release.

    Posted 1 year ago #

24. Michael B.
    Member
    Posts: 2

    Tested this version to see if it resolved our not getting updates behiend our proxy issue...

    I'm very happy to say, it does!!!

    Great job!

    -Mike

    Posted 1 year ago #

25. Kalpik N.
    Member
    Posts: 18

    Lol! 3 Michaels in a row! I got confused :P Anyway, the linux build is still on 410.. Any idea when we'll have some 414 love (if at all!) :P

    Posted 1 year ago #

26.  Arash F.
    Dropboxer
    Posts: 3075

    you can download it now (by changing the build number manually ;). rian just wanted to add one more fix.

    Posted 1 year ago #

27. Kalpik N.
    Member
    Posts: 18

    Got it! Thanks :)

    Posted 1 year ago #

28. Kalpik N.
    Member
    Posts: 18

    Not that its an issue, but i noticed the linux builds starting from 410 are using some strange font to render the mouseover, right click menu and the preferences dialog box.. Everything appears non-antialised and thin.

    Posted 1 year ago #

29.  Nathan M.
    Pro User
    Posts: 54

    The apply button still doesn't become enabled when you select or unselect the "Show system tray notifications" box (depending on what it was earlier). I'm in Vista, but it shouldn't necessarily be a system dependent bug.

    Posted 1 year ago #

30. Vincent L.
    Member
    Posts: 154

    Is there a way to get the update preference to use the "use beta versions" option? I always enjoy running the latest forum build but it's a bit of a hassle to need to recheck every few hours to see if a major bug was fixed.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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