Even puts a pretty blue box in the systemtray when it is running. The above creates a Dropbox server and a Dropbox directory, drag/drop to the directory and the files get uploaded to your Dropbox account. For easy access, put a symlink to the script anywhere in your PATH. Download this CLI scriptto control Dropbox from the command line.

Once you do, your Dropbox folder will be created in your home directory.

If you're running Dropbox on your server for the first time, you'll be asked to copy and paste a link in a working browser to create a new account or add your server to an existing account. Next, run the Dropbox daemon from the newly created. To install, run the following command in your Linux terminal. Use the following command to save the file with specific name as it will be downloaded with different name like Dropbox daemon works fine on all 32-bit and 64-bit Linux servers. So, I repeated the steps again to get a new link from Dropbox and kept download running, then went to the remote terminal and tried again with the new link, and boom It works !. I thought that may happens because I stopped downloading on my local PC before trying to download in the server, may leaded to cancel this link from Dropbox in case of not using as this link is temporary.

Then logged in to target server through SSH and tried to download file using wget command, but I have got 403 error. The file started to download to my Chrome browser, I went to browser downloads ( CTRL + j ), stopped the downloading as I don’t need to have this large file locally and copied the download link to use it inside the target server. Then click on Download Open tab on incognito mode Download & extract the package Start the Dropbox daemon. Open new incognito tab ( CTRL+Shift+N ) or logout from Dropbox, past the copied link ( this step is required to get the temporary public download link ) Difference between Google Drive and Dropbox Install Dropbox on Ubuntu through the command line. I just went to my Dropbox account, selected my file, click share on right side, a popup will show up then click on Share file and finally click on Copy link, the link will be saved into your clipboard. error, but finally I managed to download it 😎.

I used to save some of my backups on Dropbox, yesterday I was searching for an old website backup save in Dropbox, It’s size was around 3.7 GB, and I have an Ubuntu server needs to restore this backup on it, tried all ways to get the direct link to download but now way when I try yo download I got Forbidden 403.

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