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I have problems with running dropbox as normal user. I installed dropbox from AUR. It is successfully installed. But when I type in terminal dropboxd I get:
WARNING: Cannot write to "/home/USERNAME/.dropbox/dropbox.pid"
I can run dropboxd as root from terminal, but that way default Dropbox folder is created with root permissions in my /home directory. Is there some way to run dropbox as normal user and having Dropbox folder with permissions for my user?
Last edited by archiebald (2010-02-18 22:50:33)
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Change permissions of /home/USERNAME/.dropbox/
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You probably just have to change the permissions on the folder with chmod. I don't remember exactly what to do with it, but you run something along these lines:
$ chmod a+rwx /path/to/folder
Check out this posting and see if it helps you - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=445213
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Thanks toad and pickboy87 for advices. It's my fault, and lack of concetration after long hours of staring at screen.
Solution is this:
sudo chown -R USERNAME /home/USERNAME/.dropbox
Btw. Ubuntu do all automatically, with Dropbox install, all I need is to follow on screen directions, and next, next.:lol:
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everything works out of the box with dropbox install on other Arch machine i tried, probably I messed something with configuration somewhere before.
Last edited by archiebald (2010-02-18 23:05:13)
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