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nautilus-dropbox package

  1. Bug #1453655
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1453655

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 1453655] Re: desktop icons disappear on Ubuntu 15.04 when clicking Open Dropbox folder

On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 09:32:07AM -0000, Ilan Tal wrote:
> It is clearly not obvious that it should be connected to dropbox. In fact it
> took me a while to find where the connection was. It is however connected to
> dropbox. I have solved the problem personally in that I now never ask to open
> a dropbox window. Instead I right click on File and choose Open a New Window.
> That works properly. Right click on the dropbox icon -> Open Dropbox folder
> will kill my desktop icons. This didn't used to happen before 15.04.

Hmm, it doesn't seem to do this for me. I'm running 15.04 too.

Could you try opening a terminal, and running this command:
nautilus $HOME/Dropbox

Then check if the the bug occurs.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin