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Syncing is stuck on a Mac. What could be the culprit here?
I have a Mac Air (photo attached includes system data). I have noticed for the last two days that the DropBox desktop icon is constantly syncing three files. I have no "blue icons" in my Dropbox fold...
Здравко wrote:Hi macgarvin,
Can you check the result from:
ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylibIf possible, post result coming from execution in context of 'jennifer' account & of your own account.
Did you ensure the local user application cache is cleared? (as WolfgangHaak has done)
Thanks @
Grey-Malkin:~ macgarvin$ ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib
-rw------- 1 macgarvin staff 52368 30 Oct 18:55 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib
Grey-Malkin:~ macgarvin$
and
Grey-Malkin:~ jennifer$ ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib
-rw------- 1 macgarvin staff 52368 30 Oct 18:55 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib
Grey-Malkin:~ jennifer$
I didn't get as far as clearing the local user application cache for account 'macgarvin' because Dropbox was working with the previous steps. I'll have a go at clearing the catche for a/c Jennifer when I have satellite access to my ISP in a couple of hours time and can see the result.
Malcolm
Wow... macgarvin,
I don't pretend for high knowledge in MAC, but seems very strange that work in any way, even for you. Anyway... try following:
chmod a+rx /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/*.dylib
Execute above in 'macgarvin's context.
Check, after that, if something changed when launch Dropbox in s context. If there is some other error, post it.
Здравко wrote:... try following:
chmod a+rx /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/*.dylib
Execute above in 'macgarvin's context.
Check, after that, if something changed when launch Dropbox in s context. If there is some other error, post it.
Many thanks Здравко, that worked - Dropbox launched on user Jennifer's side and relinked and succesfully synced.
The 'ls' terminal command now results in:
Grey-Malkin:~ macgarvin$ chmod a+rx /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/*.dylibGrey-Malkin:~ macgarvin$ ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib-rwxr-xr-x 1 macgarvin staff 52368 30 Oct 18:55 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylibandGrey-Malkin:~ jennifer$ ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib-rwxr-xr-x 1 macgarvin staff 52368 30 Oct 18:55 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylibIncidentally, I was surprised to see 'macgarvin' referred to in both accounts, so I looked on another mac that had continued to work without problems, same OS version and same (automatically updated) Dropbox version. For these the 'ls' terminal command returned a slightly different string, but 'macgarvin' was referred to on both sides, so I assume that wasn't part of the problem:Pink-Kitten:~ macgarvin$ ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib-rw-r--r--@ 1 macgarvin staff 52368 30 Oct 18:55 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylibandPink-Kitten:~ Jennifer$ ls -l /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib-rw-r--r--@ 1 macgarvin staff 52368 30 Oct 18:55 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_sqlite_ext.dylib- Don't worry. This string denotes the user who has installed Dropbox application. 😉
Unfortunately the problem appears to have re-emerged on one of the machines - in the current manifestation stuck on perpetual sync on my user account.
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
- Jane
