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wkyandy
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago
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Dropbox not working in MacOS High Sierra

After updating to MacOS High Sierra 10.13, my dropbox on my Macbook Air start not syncing.  Then I tried to uninstall and then install the dropbox again.  However, when i press the dropbox icon after...
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  • Zeipo's avatar
    Zeipo
    8 years ago

    It's working again! Great, thanks a lot!

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Sanchez
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9 years ago
Hey magero, welcome to the Dropbox community! 

I’m sorry to hear about this. As similar as these cases may seem, it’s still best practice to start with troubleshooting some basics. 

Can you tell me: 
  • what operating system you’re using? 
  • what version of our app you have installed (or are attempting to install)
    • if it’s installed, you can hover your mouse pointer over the small Dropbox icon in your system tray/menu bar, and it will show in a small popup
  • what exactly are you experiencing? 
    • did you complete the installation of our app?
    • did you encounter any errors? 
    • is there any other behavior that is, or isn’t occurring? 

Any details surrounding this would be helpful.

Thanks in advance! 
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cgtripp
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago

This is the error message:

"You can’t use a name that begins with a dot “.”, because these names are reserved for the system. Please choose another name."

that's from the Macbook.  Dropbox says I have a problem with file permissions for Users/myname/.dropbox/logs, so why would the application create a file with a dot?

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