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Can't open the Dropbox desktop application on Mac OS 13.4. It crashes when I use the latest version.
Upgrade my Macbook Pro from 2018 to a new 2023 Macbook Pro M2. Installed the latest version of DB,, and the app crashes after a few minutes. However, I installed an older Intel version and it r,uns without crashing. I am a paying customer of DB. Tried running the adv reinstall (https://help.dropbox.com/installs/advanced-reinstall), and it installed the Intel version. Which is seems stable. Ideally, I would like to run DB natively. Open to suggestions and ideas.
OS: Apple Ventura 13.4
M2 Proc
- Hi everyone,Thank you for reaching out to us about this. We have identified an issue with the Dropbox desktop application alpha build that was released on June 15th, which caused the client to fail to load correctly on start-up. Our team have now resolved this issue.If you have noticed that your Dropbox application has stopped running as intended, please visit dropbox.com/install to install the latest version. If you are on the latest version, please restart your device.Please note it is not necessary to turn off early releases for this fix as previously mentioned in this thread. If you have turned off early releases and would like to continue receiving early releases, please follow these steps.We apologize for the disruption this caused your workflows. If you have questions or concerns, please let us know.Thank you.
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While it starting working again last night. Dropbox wasn't working this morning. I am now reinstalling Dropbox and turning off the early release option to see if that works.
Same here. Some time ago, I'd had to switch on "install early releases" in Dropbox, because they hadn't updated their release for new versions of MacOS. I just switched it off, downloaded and installed the stable app and it's now fine. Like many people, Dropbox seems to have lost the habit of actually testing before going to beta
Same problem here. Runs happily in 12.6.6 upstairs. On Ventura. Nope. I wonder if I should have accepted the beta experience that always pops up with I am in a hurry to finish something off. Hard to tell.
Thanks for all the tips. Was wondering what the heck was happening.
After turning OFF early releases and reinstalling, I got Dropbox to start up again.
I didn't have to relink.
Same problem.
I uninstalled DB and installed again. It started normally and crashed few seconds after. Can not start it again.
(M.)
Update, now it no longer starts at reboot (it hangs in activity viewer) and I get the error:
The application "Dropbox" could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred.
Contextual menus appear but do nothing when selected (share, send as copy, version history, view on dropbox.com).
However, files are apparently syncing to dropbox.com and to other Macs and PCs.
But on the macs, the green check mark status does not match the file provider icon status for each file.
I am on the early release because I use Adobe apps which require link activation. I was using 12.2.1 on my primary mac to avoid beta dropbox but a necessary macOS repair forced me to update to 12.6.6 😞
Hopefully, DB will push out a fix for Apple Silicon Macs sooner than later.
Hope so but mine is Intel.
Same issue here. Have uninstalled and reinstalled numerous times. Can only access my files via dropbox.com but then cannot attach files to an email.
Ugh~!
Exact same problem on three Macs. No amount of reinstalling and rebooting seems to help for more than a few minutes.
