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jvfederico
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Permissions Error upon Upgrade to Mac Monterey
I just updated to Mac OS Monterey on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2015) and now Dropbox doesn't work anymore. Specifically, I get an error message saying that Dropbox can't start because, "This is usually bec...
- 4 years agoThanks for sending over the requested screenshot, Michelle!
Have you tried to perform an advanced reinstall, by any chance?
If not, please give that a go and let me know how it goes.
Cheers.
Joan P.6
4 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
Thanks. I had to go back into Preferences > Security & Privacy> unlock to be able to make changes >Accessibility and then separately to >Full Disk Access. It's working now.
Erik Toussaint
4 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hei Joan,
I'm afraid 'accesibility' is in may places on my iMac. I think I managed to unlock (clicked on the lock), but can't find the 'accesibility' option where I can indicate 'Full disk Access'. Where did you find it?
Cheers, Erik
- Jay4 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Erik Toussaint, you can find these settings by following these steps.- Erik Toussaint4 years agoNew member | Level 2
don't get it Jay. I do not understand why things suddenly do not work after updating my computer. I think it is too easy to blame apple.
- mikafox4 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I'm having the same problem. I tried to fix it by turning on Accessibility for Dropbox, but I can't even get Dropbox to show up in my Accessibility panel. Here is the error information:
bn.BUILD_KEY: Dropbox
bn.VERSION: 142.4.4197
bn.constants.WINDOWS_SHELL_EXT_VERSION: 52
bn.is_frozen: True
machine_id: f87dfb45-4512-54cc-9459-4a0b58cdc90a
pid: 997
ppid: 1
uid: 502
user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='michelle', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=502, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Michelle Pesce', pw_dir='/Users/michelle', pw_shell='/bin/bash')
effective_user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='michelle', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=502, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Michelle Pesce', pw_dir='/Users/michelle', pw_shell='/bin/bash')
euid: 502
gid: 20
egid: 20
group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root', 'Chiara', '_nsurlstoraged'])
effective_group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root', 'Chiara', '_nsurlstoraged'])
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH: None
cwd: '/'
real_path='/'
mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
HOME: '/Users/michelle'
appdata: '/Users/michelle/.dropbox/instance1'
real_path='/Users/michelle/.dropbox/instance1'
mode=0o40700 uid=502 gid=20
parent mode=0o40700 uid=502 gid=20
dropbox_path: None
not found
parent not found
sys_executable: '/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox'
real_path='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox'
mode=0o100755 uid=502 gid=20
parent mode=0o40755 uid=502 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/h3/_mwq2h550v3gy34pw4c2_w2m0000gp/T'
real_path='/private/var/folders/h3/_mwq2h550v3gy34pw4c2_w2m0000gp/T'
mode=0o40700 uid=502 gid=20
parent mode=0o40755 uid=502 gid=20
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dropbox/client/authentication/register_host_helper.pyc", line 483, in _try_register_host
File "dropbox/client/authentication/register_host_helper.pyc", line 949, in handle_changed_host_secret
File "dropbox/sync_root/helpers.pyc", line 367, in destroy_root_from_config
AssertionError
Aaaaannnndddd.... it says there is "invalid HTML" in this post so it evidently removed part of the error message before I can even post it. Hopefully there's enough there to help solve the problem. I'm so frustrated - please help!
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