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monaronyc's avatar
monaronyc
Helpful | Level 5
2 hours ago

Why am I getting a notification on my Mac about Dropbox modifying apps?

Hi everyone! We're starting to notice this Drobox notification below pop up on our Mac community. When we click it, it takes us to Privacy & Security in System Settings but then does nothing.

Anyone know what exactly this modifying apps means and what its asking for? Should we be concerned?

This particular MBP is running macOS 15.7.4 (Intel) and version 243.4.6956 of the Dropbox app.

Thank you!

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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    1 hour ago

    Hi there, monaronyc​! Thanks for your post.

    Did you notice that this started happening after some kind of macOS update?

    The Dropbox app does interact with your computer and other apps on it, while it's syncing or while you're editing files (through those apps), so I'm assuming that this is why you're seeing this notification.

    Can you try to give the Dropbox app full disk access, by following these steps, to see if the notifications stop?

    Let me know how it goes!

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