Your Dropbox folder is on a file system that is no longer supported - SOLVED

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Has anyone used Dropbox successfully? I installed the Flatpak but when I try to connect I get this error:

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Following the link to the requirements, I see that btrfs is supported. My home folder is on BTRFS (iside LUKS, but doubt that matters):

~ 
❯ mount | grep home
/dev/mapper/luks-0f45e4b2-02d1-4a30-9462-a67ed1db53bd on /var/home type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,compress=zstd:1,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=257,subvol=/home)

Should this not be working? What’s really bugging Dropbox?

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Hello @akarypid

I had the same issue when I first installed flatpak Dropbox in Bluefin.

I managed to avoid this error message and get it working by changing Dropbox folder from /home/user/Dropbox to /var/home/user/Dropbox.

Cheers!

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The fix is: opening Flatseal, select the Dropbox app, and change the file sharing settings under the Filesytem section. See screenshot.

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The partition or folder for synchronization has to be explicitly made available to Dropbox, so it can gain permissions to read or write.

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Thank you!

I actually didn’t touch any of the permissions. I simply selected “Move” and pointed it to /var/home/{myusername} and it seems to work fine(with default permisssions).

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