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teranisi
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago
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Issue with the Dropbox application v52 (freezing/ crashing) on Mac devices.

Recently I noticed Dropbox.app is not running on my MacBook Pro (El Capitan). When I run following command on a terminal,   $ /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox   many message...
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  • Lucio's avatar
    Lucio
    8 years ago

    OK! Would it be possible for any of you that presented this issue to give this beta a try and report back here whether or not the issue persists for you?

     

    Thanks!

VerTex's avatar
VerTex
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Hi Walt3r,

 

thanks for your fast reply. The offline installer also installs the Dropbox client but when the client should startup, it stalls.

 

What i have done so far is:

 

1st) assigned dropbox.com and www.dropbox.com to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts

2nd) Installed 50.4.71 and moved it afterwards in a subfolder inside Applications (read this somewhere in www)

 

Now the old client works well and syncs fine (even if dropbox.com is still assigned to localhost, huh)

 

Regards Robert

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VerTex
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

I am very confused now, my working client says "Dropbox 52.4.58" :-o

 

 

 

I am back on Monday - have a nice weekend!

 

Regards Robert

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    8 years ago

    Thanks for the update on this one VerTex !

     

    I am off for the weekend as well, so if you stumble upon this behavior again, let me know here and we'll take it from there.

     

    Thanks for your cooperation so far and have an awesome weekend Robert!

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