Unable to star files and folders in Dropbox folder in Ubuntu 20.04

[Marek Lichtner]

It is impossible to star files or folder inside Dropbox folder. There is no menu in Nautilus after right click on file. Outside the Dropbox folder it works fine. I am not sure if it is bug of Dropbox extension or Nautilus.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'initial-size' b'(1018, 689)'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'click-policy' b"'single'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency', 'starred', 'detailed_type']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-25 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
Package: nautilus 1:3.36.1.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Tags: third-party-packages focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
usr_lib_nautilus: dropbox 2020.03.04

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Where is the dropbox folder created? Could you flag file there before and on what ubuntu version?

[Marek Lichtner (marek7)]

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[Marek Lichtner (marek7)]

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[Marek Lichtner (marek7)]

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[Marek Lichtner (marek7)]

After Dropbox is installed, it creates folder "{homedir}/Dropbox," and all files are synchronized from your dropbox account. So before it, there is no Dropbox folder in your home dir. I did not test it before Dropbox was installed, but I guess there will be no problem to star this file.

Now I checked my dropbox account; there is also feature to star files. Maybe there is a conflict between dropbox and nautilus star functionality.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue then is that favorites only work on indexed files, that's reported upstream

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/243