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Shawn G.2
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Can't access Dropbox folder remotely after migration to new "Secure" location

My situation is I have a Parallels VM to run a 32 bit application with it's data file external and shared on the host machine.   Ever since Dropbox moved the file to the Library folder and left a...
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Megan
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3 years ago

Hi Shawn G.2, unfortunately this would be outside the scope of our support. 

 

You'd need to have access to the library storage of the other profile for this to work, and we can't guide you with this.

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Shawn G.2
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Megan,

 

May I politely point out you miss the point, I *am* using the host userid (account) the issue is that via ARA with that account then the the DropBox folder contents are invisible *but* all other files in the Library folder are fine.   I.e. there is something specifically different with the Library DropBox folder than all others Library folders when using ARA.

 

 

 

Regards,

Shawn

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