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A folder of pictures was shared with me and I saved the folder in Dropbox. I have since moved the folder to a shared drive at work. I now want to delete the original shared folder (and pictures) to free up space on my Dropbox. However, the following message pops up:
"You need permission to perform this action
You require permission from XXXXXX\cpaluga to make changes to this folder"
I am that person that requires permission, so why can't I delete the folder, or grant permission?
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Yes, I use Windows.
I copied the folder and its pictures to a network drive.
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I've faced this issue before. There are two ways to fix You need permission to perform this action Error. One of the following step should help majority of the people facing this issue.
Follow the steps below
1.Boot into Safe Mode
2.By changing the Owner
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his happens everytime i run the setup, regardless of whether running from harddrive or usb stick. Dropbox login finishes and dropbox starts in system tray with the default Dropbox folder settings, but DropBoxPortableAHK is still waiting. Is it possible, that this may have something to do with two-step verification?
3:25.11 -----start setting up environment-----
> 13:25.11 usinglocalappdata
> 13:25.11 old appdata:C:\Users\sro\AppData\Local
> 13:25.11 old userprofile:C:\Users\sro
> 13:25.11 appdata isa subfolder of USERPROFILE
> 13:25.11
> newappdata:I:\PortableApps\DropboxPortable\DropboxPortableAHK\.dbfiles\profile\AppData\Local_roaming
> 13:25.11
> newlocalappdata:I:\PortableApps\DropboxPortable\DropboxPortableAHK\.dbfiles\profile\AppData\Local
> 13:25.11 newhomedrive:I:
> 13:25.11 newhomepath
> \PortableApps\DropboxPortable\DropboxPortableAHK\.dbfiles\profile
> 13:25.11
> newuserprofile:I:\PortableApps\DropboxPortable\DropboxPortableAHK\.dbfiles\profile
> 13:25.11
> newtemp:I:\PortableApps\DropboxPortable\DropboxPortableAHK\.dbfiles\profile\Temp
> 13:25.11 newprogram
> files:I:\PortableApps\DropboxPortable\DropboxPortableAHK\.dbfiles\bin
> 13:25.11 -----finished setting up environment-----
>
> 13:25.11 -----start releasing blocked registry-----
> 13:25.11 -----notnecessary to restore-----
>
> 13:25.11 -----start setting appdata path inregistry-----
> 13:25.11 -----registry change isnotenabled-----
>
> 13:25.11 started dropbox
> 13:25.11 -----restore initial environment-----
> 13:25.11 -----restored-----
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/quickly-fix-dropbox-permissions-errors-in-os-x/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/dropboxportableahk/FFQf6xcA8cI/X0oPR0RKBQAJ
Tried above things as nothing is working. Please help me out here.
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