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Supermac
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Path error in Dropbox after User Home name changed..

Specifically Dropbox 112.4.321 on MacOS 10.12.6. Background: A restore from backup (TimeMachine) after a failed hard drive resulted in a number 1 being appended to the User Name. Most things did n...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
5 years ago

Hi Supermac,

You can forcibly unlink your application from the account using following command:

rm -rf ~/.dropbox

After that, run the application and link back to your account as usual.

Hope this helps.

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susanart
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Perfect! That took about 5 seconds! Thanks, although you should probably mention that this has to be done in the Terminal app.

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