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Dropbox re-install logs back in to old account without prompt
My Dropbox 224.4.4811 isn't syncing to my macOS 15.4.1. The "Dropbox" folder is empty. It's empty here /Users/brandon/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. Yet the menu's say it's "up to date!" Ye olde solu...
something went ape on my account. can you look at logs?
The Events page is your log. It will show you all the recent activity on your account, if any.
... on 5/9/25 is when it mirrors Dropbox and put everything into its #RECYCLE directory.
Look on your Events page and see what happened on 5/9.
Hello Brandon W.1
Try removing the ~/.dropbox/ folder. It is a hidden folder (notice the dot at the start) in your user folder. So the full path would be:
/Users/brandon/.dropbox
Hope this helps,
Andrew (DBoxTips)
P.S. I am a volunteer on the Dropbox forums, freely and happily sharing know-how with other users, not affiliated with Dropbox in any way.
yep. In clouded in my bash script.
#!/bin/bash # Script to fix Dropbox permissions and reset Dropbox configuration # Change ownership of user's home directory to current user sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME" # Recursively change ownership of Dropbox folder to current user sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox # Recursively add read and write permissions for the user on Dropbox folder sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox # Move the Dropbox configuration folder to Trash (backup) sudo mv ~/.dropbox ~/.Trash/dropbox.old # Remove any ACLs (Access Control Lists) from home directory sudo chmod -N ~ # Move Dropbox helper tools to a backup location sudo mv /Library/DropboxHelperTools ~/DropboxHelperTools.old echo "Dropbox permissions reset complete. You may need to restart Dropbox application."makes no difference.
