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Hello,
In catalina I am no longer able to drag files in finder into the dropbox folder. The selected object just sort of springs back into place and will not enter the Dropbox folder.
@Rob C.24 this is a bash shell command not zsh, which is the default. Many people prefer the old bash. Do this to change the default shell to Bash:
1. Open Terminal - see the title in the window? It says zsh right?
2. chsh -s /bin/bash
3. It will ask for your password
4. Close Terminal window and reopen it - you should see "bash" in the title of the window now
5. Now enter this (all one line, just copy and paste it):
IFS=$'\n'; for path in `python -c $'import os\nimport json\nfor key, value in json.loads(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.dropbox/info.json")).read()).items():\n print value["path"].encode("utf-8")'`; do echo "$path"; xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "$path"; done
6. If you want to change it back to the default zsh after this is done, close the Terminal window, open a new Terminal window, and type chsh -s /bin/zsh. It will prompt again for your password, then close the Terminal window. Next time you will see zsh in the title!
Good luck!
For temporary switch to bash shell (and not only), just run 'bash' command would be enough (no sudo, no turn forth and back). At the end just close you terminal and everything would be back.
I have the same issue since ugrading to Catalina. Only workaround I've found is to open dropbox on the web, then upload files/folders -- drag and drop to the favorites dropbox location doesn't work (springs back as described by others in this thread)...
IFS=$'\n'; for path in `python -c $'import os\nimport json\nfor key, value in json.loads(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.dropbox/info.json")).read()).items():\n print value["path"].encode("utf-8")'`; do echo "$path"; xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "$path"; done
in Terminal, that worked for me, thanks!!
Was able to switch to bash but when I ran the main line I got the following message: "No such xattr: com.apple.quarantine" -- any ideas?
The proposed solution worked on one of my two machines. I'll try it on the other later.
I can´t drag folders from downloads on my laptop to dropbox, but I was able to do it by copying and pasting. Go figure.
I was hoping the 10.15.3 update would fix it but I'm still not able to drag n drop onto Dropbbox in the sidebar. Is this an Apple problem or a Dropbox problem?
Same here. The only way that I can add files is to open a new finder window, switch to Dropbox, and then drag n drop that way. Nothing else works. Apple told me it was a Dropbox problem.
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