You are on the right track in disabling the Smart Sync feature. Hi Christopher, sorry to hear of the trouble! We have hundreds of clients running Dropbox with AlwaysUp every day so I’m sure that we’ll be able to resolve your problem soon. If AlwaysUp cannot keep Dropbox running/syncing in the background then it is of no use to us. This situation reads like the issues reported and fixed by setting QT_OPENGL as a environment variable but I tried it and still no luck.ĭropbox is the very latest, version 1. If I restart the service “in this session”, when I access a file I see a Dropbox notification that the file is being download and I have access to the file. That is, other people modified/created files in Dropbox and the server needs to access them. The server is not the original source of the data. When I try to open the file, a PDF for example, I get an error that the file cannot be accessed. However, I think this is a red herring because starting 'in this session' does the same.Īnyway, if I try to access one of the files from the Dropbox folder I can navigate to the file but it is 'lightened' (not greyed out, but not full color). The service seems to start from AlwaysUp, and using Process Explorer I can see that Dropbox started with a bunch of TCP/IP connections (5 or 6) after running for a few minutes, then that drops to 3 then 2 then back to 3 connections. I have followed the installation guide (wizard and then double checked the setting). I just installed AlwaysUp (13.3.3.17) specifically to keep a Dropbox synchronized with a Win 2012 R2 server.

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