In the event of the below status from Dropbox – Follow the below steps.

[email protected]:~# docker exec -it dropbox dropbox status
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 1535, in <module>
    ret = main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 1524, in main
    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 719, in newmeth
    return meth(*n, **kw)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 1187, in status
    console_print(line)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 127, in console_print
    f.write(st.encode(enc))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2022' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

Copy the number from the unicode character code (Eg in the above – 2022)

Enter the number into the below URL to lookup what special character is causing Dropbox to crash:

https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/[number-here]/browsertest.htm

When you have the special character – Eg a bullet point from the above example (•), copy the UTF-8 character into your clipboard.

On your linux server – Do a “find” in your Dropbox directory for files containing this character:

find /mnt/Dropbox/ -name "*•*"

The results from this find are the files which are causing the Dropbox crash – You can either delete these (if Appropriate) or exclude them / the directory they are contained within from Dropbox sync as so:

docker exec -it dropbox dropbox exclude add this/dir/contains/files/