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Dan47
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4 years ago
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Can't start Dropbox

I'm getting an error message that Dropbox can't start on my Mac (running macOS Monterey). I tried an advanced reinstall of Dropbox to no avail. Here's the error text. Any help would be so appreciated!
 
bn.BUILD_KEY: Dropbox
bn.VERSION: 136.4.4345
bn.constants.WINDOWS_SHELL_EXT_VERSION: 51
bn.is_frozen: True
machine_id: bf0e1723-6a61-5d9c-8a4b-5d750c5de6b2
pid: 832
ppid: 1
uid: 501
user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='Dan', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Dan', pw_dir='/Users/Dan', pw_shell='/bin/bash')
effective_user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='Dan', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Dan', pw_dir='/Users/Dan', pw_shell='/bin/bash')
euid: 501
gid: 20
egid: 20
group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root', 'test', '_nsurlstoraged', '_serialnumberd'])
effective_group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root', 'test', '_nsurlstoraged', '_serialnumberd'])
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH: None
cwd: '/'
     real_path='/'
            mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
     parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
HOME: '/Users/Dan'
appdata: '/Users/Dan/.dropbox/instance1'
         real_path='/Users/Dan/.dropbox/instance1'
                mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
         parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
dropbox_path: '/Users/Dan/Dropbox'
              real_path='/Users/Dan/Dropbox'
                    mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
              parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
sys_executable: '/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox'
                real_path='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox'
                      mode=0o100755 uid=501 gid=20
                parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
trace.__file__: '/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/python-packages.zip/dropbox/client/ui/common/boot_error.pyc'
                real_path='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/python-packages.zip/dropbox/client/ui/common/boot_error.pyc'
                      not found
                parent not found
tempdir: '/var/folders/g9/xrqkt7ys0plfw713vkvnff4r0000gn/T'
         real_path='/private/var/folders/g9/xrqkt7ys0plfw713vkvnff4r0000gn/T'
                mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
         parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 826, in wrapper
  File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6588, in finish_dropbox_boot
  File "dropbox/client/message_queue.pyc", line 313, in _wrapped
  File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6136, in _init_components_for_account
  File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6060, in create_sync_engine
  File "dropbox/sync_engine_boundary/factory.pyc", line 226, in make_sync_engine
  File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/sync_engine.pyc", line 280, in __init__
  File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/modern_client.pyc", line 248, in __init__
  File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/base.pyc", line 170, in __init__
  File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc", line 214, in __init__
  File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc", line 518, in _init_new_engine_locked
  File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc", line 133, in __init__
  File "desktop/extensions/nucleus/nucleus_python.pyx", line 76, in nucleus_python.NucleusSyncEngine.__cinit__
nucleus_python.SyncEngineError: "Initializing engine |>> Initializing filesystem |>> Attempting to register icons |>> fchflags syscall: _set_hidden |>> Permission denied"

 

  • Hi Dan47, let's see what we can do about this! 

    Can you please try out these steps and let me know how they work out for you? 

    Keep me posted!

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