I’m having some trouble with Dropbox. I’m using Ornara 21.0.2 with xfce.
The problem:
I would like to move my Dropbox directory to another location. The other location is an encrypted hard drive. But Dropbox does not show the mounted hard drive so I can’t move to location to it.
With the older version of Manjaro I didn’t have this problem.
Google helped me so far that I should create a permanent mounting point for the encrypted drive so I did exactly that. Sadly Dropbox still does not show me the hard drive even though it is visible to me in the File System directory as a “Folder”.
Not sure what I should do now. Thanks for your help!
Thanks for the reply! seems a bit strange to me, since I used AUR as well so it should have been a newer one and my home partition is encrypted as well and it works on home.
I dropped Dropbox (pun intended ) back in 2018 when they stopped supporting encrypted FS and encrypted files so unless someone else comes up with a better answer, it’s my humble opinion that what you’re seeing is a side effect of Dropbox’s decision not to support encrypted FSs.
This what I found from Dropbox. So, since I’m using an LUKS encrypted hard drive and ext4 it should still work, as far as I can make out…
The Dropbox folder will need to be on an ext4-formatted hard drive or partition with extended attributes not disabled. [ecryptfs is not supported, but Dropbox will continue to sync with supported file systems that are encrypted via full disk encryption (e.g. LUKS)]
I maybe out of date with the Dropbox service - so bear with me on the thought - if you care so much as to use encrypted storage on your system - then why would you store the same files with an unencrypted cloud provider?
If you want to sync encrypted files - have you considered creating containers - then sync the container.
Another option is to use a cloud provider which provides end-to-end encryption.
If it used to work it maybe worth trying the flatpak version of Dropbox instead of the aur, see if there’s any dependencies missing or anything. I remember with clementine only the snap version could connect to my gdrive account all other versions won’t so worth a try