Daemon sync change login install#

I leave this question here in case someone, someday, can answer it. Their Linux tools and support is far superior to Dropbox. Update: I've ditched Dropbox and started using Copy.

How do I change the Dropbox directory on a headless GNU/Linux server? I would like to know the correct way to make the change. I am currently using a symlink, as suggested as an answer, but this is a kludge.

I have tried to launch the Dropbox GUI configuration wizard over SSH with X11 forwarding, as suggested in one of the answers, but the binary must detect the absence of a local X11 install and it starts a command line daemon instead, which provides no means to change the option I need. I checked the same database file on my desktop machine, and it does not have the dropbox_path key, so I'm presuming the information in that thread is also out of date for version 2.0. This forum thread suggests manually inserting the required row in the config.db database, which I did, but it made no difference. Looking at the script, it opens a SQLite database called ~/.dropbox/dropbox.db, which does not exist on my Dropbox install, leading me to believe the script is out-of-date. This page (and several others) recommends a Python script to do the job. However I installed the desktop app on my desktop machine and changed the default folder location, but I can't find where this change is stored in the ~/.dropbox/ directory so I can make the same change on the server. The official docs say to use the desktop application, which is not applicable in my situation. I have installed Dropbox 2.0.0 via command line on my home server (Ubuntu Server 12.04) to use for off-site automated backups, but I can't change the directory that the Dropbox daemon keeps synced.

Daemon sync change login install#