Continuing with the installation of essentials, now I am with Dropbox. Fortunately, there is a flatpak for it. But when I want to move the synced folder to /var/mnt/sync, Dropbox doesn’t show it but only seven folders. Where did the other 17 go?
Did you have a similar experience?
What would be your recommendation?
After a tour-de-force through Bottles and Wine, learned more about flatpak permissions. Coming from the world of Ubuntu 22.04, I was totally unaware of installing stuff via flatpak. At the most, I had two or three flatpaks in Ubuntu, and never had to deal with permissions.
In Bluefin - or Silverblue - is drastically different. It is a new way - better - of working with Linux.
Finally understood why Dropbox-flatpak didn’t show any folders at the moments to pick the target folder for synchronization. We have to allow some permissions to read and write to the flatpak application, in this case Dropbox. It is very simple if we knew where to do it. So, jumping from a reading to another, finally got the answer.
Just after installing Dropbox via flatpak do not open it. Just go to Flatseal, select Dropbox from the list and go to the filesystem section. There you have to enable the files and folders visibility. Here is screenshot of an example:
In Other files I had to add the destination folder, which is a Ext4 mounted partition exclusive for synchronization. Something like: /var/mnt/synco/accounts. Maybe in your case, you synchronize to your home folder. In that case just enable the option All user files. The folder /tmp was set by Dropbox.
Once you have enable this visibility/permissions via Flatseal, open Dropbox and move the target folder to the desired location. Finally, select the folders to synchronize, apply, and OK.
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