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ameliebouan
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6 years ago
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Can't start Dropbox because of permission error

Hi! I have two profiles on my Mac: one for my personal use, and one for my professional use. The profile for personal use has admin rights, the profile for professional use does not (but I could se...
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    ameliebouan
    6 years ago

    Hi Walter!

    That second solution didn't work either, but what I did was I set my Work profile on my Mac as an admin, deleted Dropbox doing the clean uninstall (your first solution), redownloaded and... it worked! I didn't try to have the same Dropbox accounts on both my Personal and Work profile... but that's ok - I can open both, I'll work with shared folders to transfer stuff from one to another and boom! Thanks a lot for your time and help. 

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Megan
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5 years ago
Hi harwooje, I hope you're doing well! 

Can you also follow the steps provided in my reply above, in order to perform an advanced re-install? 

Keep me posted on the results!
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harwooje
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

I found a link -- my comment is below your post -- "harwooje" -- thanks

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