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Every time I log in Dropbox opens up the screen informing me that Nautilus needs to be restarted.

Dropbox "Nautilus Restart Requried"

Clicking the restart button does nothing though.

If I enter terminal and run nautilus -q it returns the following errors:

Initializing nautilus-dropbox 2.10.0

(nautilus:8933): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 310 was not found when attempting to remove it
(nautilus:8933): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 311 was not found when attempting to remove it
(nautilus:8933): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 312 was not found when attempting to remove it`

Does anyone know how I can resolve these errors so that I can restart nautilus correctly?

Zanna
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DJ_Beardsquirt
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Try

sudo nautilus -q

or install a newer Nautilus for 14.04/13.10 from here

EDIT: What I forgot, after installing Nautilus 3.12, you will have to reboot -> sudo reboot

Report back if it worked ;)

Zbunjeni
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  • Thanks, I should have mentioned I have also tried running sudo nautilus -q. I'll try updating nautilus and seeing whether I still get the message / am unable to restart after rebooting. – DJ_Beardsquirt Nov 25 '14 at 11:16
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    I just started getting this error. How did you end up resolving this problem? Did the nautilus update work? – ohnoplus Nov 30 '15 at 20:48
  • I had the same issue, tried following the instruction in the link (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install nautilus, sudo apt) but after rebooting the "Nautilus restart required" box still pops up seconds after logging in and also my display settings have changed - background tabs in browser have greyed out text that is impossible to read, the "nautilus restart required" box didn't have a box where it said "restart nautilus", just the words...very annoying. Does anyone know a way to fix this or at least undo what the last advice did? – FJC Nov 25 '16 at 10:50
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I hope your problem has been resolved, if not this may help. I was also facing the same problem and this helped me.

Download the .deb file of Dropbox from here on the dropbox.com site.

Then after download, right click and select Open with software install.

Then install it.

software center

Start drop box and you will get little dropbox icon on top right.

Reference

Zanna
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Shamina
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I had this problem after having installed Ubuntu 16.04 und Dropbox, nothing else. I have no idea which Nautilus comes with Ubuntu, but as it is the newest Ubuntu, I assume, it's also the newest Nautilus. So I did not do any update on Nautilus, but only ran 

sudo reboot.

After a PC Restart the Nautilus Restart Required window showed up again, but now I was able to close it from the Close button. From then on, the window never showed up again.

Zanna
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Ulrich
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