Can't Drag Files to Dropbox Folder in Catalina

That would be just fine @Jane, thank you!

Many thanks for the speedy confirmation mlawson1986; please check your inbox when you have a spare minute! 😊

I am seeing the same inability to drop files on Dropbix folder in the Sidebar on Catalina. It is a new macbook pro with Catalina. My system meets the access requirements identified several posts ago. All other methods to move a file to DropBox folders work fine - seems to be isolated to only DropBox folder in sidebar.

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!

Worked for me, thanks! I CANNOT believe how long they are taking to get this fixed to be honest. It's clear that a lot of people are having this problem but they act like it's some sort of ad hoc occurrence.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of people with issues.

I just got my laptop back from Apple after a failed logic board, and was forced to upgrade to Catalina. (I had been holding off because of all the various app issues across many apps.)

Post-upgrade, I can't drag to or from the Dropbox hierarchy.

Seems like Apple & Dropbox aren't playing well with others at the moment.

Jane, can I get on your radar, too? I've got LOTS of stuff to move around as I re-establish a rational environment on a virtually-new machine.

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?

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.