Annoying issue with Dropbox on Fedora 41

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I’m having a difficulty using Dropbox (from flathub) on Fedora 41 with Gnome:

Once in a while (probably after reboot), Dropbox stops syncing.
I have to clic on the Dropbox icon on the dash, then the app want to reconnect via the web but is not recognizing it is already connected with this computer, so, as I am limited with 3 devices, I have to disconnect Dropbox from this computer (still appearing in the list of connected devices) and then retry to click on the icon and then clic connect on the web page and then it syncs again.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a bug? Why the app is not recognizing it is on an already connected device?

I don’t have such issue with Dropbox app on Ubuntu.

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Regarding the Dropbox app that you were using on Ubuntu, was it also a Flatpak, was it a Snap, or the official package offered by Dropbox?

I’m wondering if there are some inconsistencies or bugs in the Flatpak version that may not exist in the package provided by Dropbox?

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I have been having a similar problem, in that on booting, Dropbox has wanted to reinstall, and then connect. It has not wanted me to remove the old connection; this seems to have happened automatically.

For the moment, I have uninstalled Dropbox, I can still access my files on the Mint system via the home network, intending to try a new install after upgrading to F41. I will still hang fire on it for a little while, and see what people have to say on this issue.

Installed directly from the Dropbox website, not via Flatpak, should this matter.

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I would say report that bug to the package issue tracker first. The website on flathub.org will have instructions.

If the app does not have a blue :ballot_box_with_check: then it is unverified meaning that dropbox devs likely dont care about your issues

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Indeed under Fedora, the proposed flatpak is a non verified flatpak from flathub…

Gnome GUI does not propose a verified flatpak nor RPM package nor an unverified flatpak from Fedora.

I tried to download RPM from dropbox but the installation process failled with Fedora.

Under Ubuntu, it is a debian package.

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Try this way:

sudo rpmkeys --import https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/dropbox.repo << "EOF" > /dev/null
[dropbox]
name=Dropbox
baseurl=https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/${releasever}/
gpgkey=https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
EOF
sudo dnf install nautilus-dropbox
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I had the same issue with Dropbox on Fedora 41 with GNOME. Couldn’t get it working with either the Flatpak nor the official installer from Dropbox. I ended up uninstalling the Dropbox app and instead installing an open-source third-party Dropbox client, Maestral; it’s been working fine for me so far.

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