Dropbox often stalls “Saving 1 file”, have to restart it

Question

Dropbox works well, but often the tray icon starts spinning forever with the tooltip message "Saving 1 file..."
I usually don't worry about it, and I never had any loss, despite switching computers often. An easy solution is to restart Dropbox, it spins for a second before the tooltip says "All files up to date".

But how to permanently prevent this problem?

Ubuntu 2010.10
Dropbox 0.7.110
Dropbox stores about 50 text files, 1 MB in total.

Answer 1

This worked for me, you give it a try:

If unlinking and relinking your account doesn't solve the issue, your settings may be protected or inaccessible due to a permissions problem. If this is the case, you can remove your settings by hand using an administrative account. Here's how:

On Linux

1. Quit Dropbox by right-clicking on the Dropbox menu from the menu bar and selecting Quit

2. Open a terminal and copy and paste the following line into the terminal (exactly as written below):

   sudo rm -rfI ~/.dropbox

3. You will be asked for your password to confirm the folder's removal

4. Restart Dropbox from the Applications > Internet menu

Once Dropbox loads, the application will rebuild your settings files and you will be asked to relink to your account.

Note: We're working on a way to check and fix your Dropbox installation automatically from within the application. Stay tuned...

(From the Dropbox Help Forum Team)

Answer 2

Go into the folder with nautilus and see which file is not being updated. The icon has a blue symbol with two white arrows inside. Check if you have enough privileges to read the the file. I would also update to the latest client version, which is 1.1.35.