[Edit] To answer my question, yes, Dropbox does indeed store its application information in your user’s /home folder by default. As long as you don’t wipe your /home folder, you should be good to go once you reinstall the Dropbox app after reformatting/reinstalling your distro (Tested with a few Fedora-based distros, YMMV if you use Debian/Arch). I didn’t have to re-login; the Dropbox app just worked.

Is it possible to reinstall Linux (or distro hop) without losing my Dropbox install? Could I move the Dropbox install to my home folder so it survives the OS install?

  • Horsey@lemmy.worldOP
    14·
    6 个月前

    Yes, lol. Long story short,I don’t have the password because it’s a shared account

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      26·
      6 个月前

      This is the most important piece of information. You should edit the post and/or title to make this more clear.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      14·
      6 个月前

      Well, that makes a huge difference to the meaning of the question.

      I don’t know, but maybe the login is held in a dotfile such as ~/.dropbox or maybe in ~/.config/dropbox or similar, and just backing up that (not to Dropbox!) would be enough to restore being logged in on a different system.

    • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz
      3·
      6 个月前

      Ah ok. So its not so much the current files that you want to retain, but the ability to receive files locally through sync, when someone else elsewhere makes a change?

      Sounds a bit like not wanting to remove the Netflix app because its logged in with the unknown password of an ex.

    • Peasley@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 个月前

      You dont need the install preserved, you need the login session preserved. I doubt that it’s even possible