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Can't Drag Files to Dropbox Folder in Catalina
Hello,
In catalina I am no longer able to drag files in finder into the dropbox folder. The selected object just sort of springs back into place and will not enter the Dropbox folder.
I thought I would share this - I have been waiting for the permanent fix from Dropbox, which will BE this fix - it has not come out yet, so I thought I would share the fix that worked for me. I think this is all they are going to add into an update but I am not sure about that. Can you see if this works for you? You may have to restart your computer if it doesn't work, but I didn't have to.
Open Terminal, and enter this command (all one line):
IFS=$'\n'; for path in `python -c $'import os\nimport json\nfor key, value in json.loads(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.dropbox/info.json")).read()).items():\n print value["path"].encode("utf-8")'`; do echo "$path"; xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "$path"; done
Then try the drag and drop again!
I like the idea of a command-line fix. However, I'm reluctant to be one of the first users :grin:
I've seen one person like this. Anybody else? And has anybody else (that knows what they're doing) parse this command line awesomeness out & consider its safety?
- Fiona
Dropbox Staff
Thank you all for your paticipation and posting details of your user cases.
We appreciate the solution posted donawalt. Kudos for being helpful in our Community. I hope to see more users post that this worked for them.
batsonjay you are on my radar now. Check the email address associated with your Community profile.
We will take it from there.
Thank you all for working on this with us!
Cool. Mail received, and replied-to. Thanks.
I've just discovered this problem on my own system, and just found this thread. I'm astonished this problem was reported so long ago and still hasn't been fixed! Can that be right? Since I pay for Dropbox, it seems to me that either this should be resolved promptly or else I should take my business elsewhere.
Two questions, then:
1) Has Dropbox said when this problem will be fixed?
2) Which competitor of Dropbox is the most intuitive for longtime Dropbox users?
Same problem here and similarly surprised to find out (now i know i'm not the only one) that it's still not been addressed. It's muscle memory to drag files to Dropbox this way, and it's frustrating every time it doesn't work as expected.
I suspect it's actually an Apple issue and not a Dropbox one. Although if you look at my reply above yours, you can see I found a workaround.
Yeah Joe M.6 - i went with that for now. Good suggestion.
I appreciate the workaround but I fear I'll lose track of where I've placed files. If it's "an Apple issue and not a Dropbox one," then Dropbox should say so. Have they offered any official explanation?
