Megasync doesn't start

Question

Yesterday I installed MegaSync with the Nautilus extension and when I restarted the computer (running Ubuntu Desktop 15.04) the MegaSync app doesn't start at all.

I tried running megasync in the terminal and nothing, System Monitor does not see MegaSync running. What can I do?

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 03 '22 at 18:20

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The answer of dadexix86 doesn't work all the time. At first, I did what he proposed and it worked.

But later on, when the issue reappeared, I found that I had to delete/rename the megasync.lock file inside "~/.local/share/data/Mega Limited/MEGAsync/":

Doing that, it worked like a charm.

edited Nov 03 '22 at 18:20

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Mar 23 '16 at 08:59

milia

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 03 '22 at 17:33

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The problem is a wrong ownership of some files in the home directory.

Acquire again the property of all the files in that directory via

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER "/home/$USER/.local/share/data/Mega Limited"

Where $USER is an environment variable with your current username.

edited Nov 03 '22 at 17:33

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Sep 01 '15 at 22:26

dadexix86

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Megasync doesn't start

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