Comment 2 for bug 535599

talking with the OP on IRC. He said he had no ~/.local/share/ubuntuone/syncdaemon/ folder and the shares folder was empty.

-laptop:~$ dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon --type=method_call /status com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.Status.current_status
method return sender=:1.180 -> dest=:1.181 reply_serial=2
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "is_error"
         string ""
      )
      dict entry(
         string "is_connected"
         string "True"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "name"
         string "START_WORKING_ON_BOTH"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "is_online"
         string "True"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "description"
         string "start working on both content and metadata"
      )
   ]