changed home folder name, now db will not start

[Ian R.2]

On my Mac I changed my home folder/user name folder. Now, when dp starts, it attempts to change permissions on the original home folder, which no longer exists, and then exits. Is there a way to tell dp that this folder no longer exists, and to move to the new.
Thanks for any assist.

[Thiago U.]

Sofia, you are great!

[Stephanos K.]

Please, could we have a similar guide for Windows? I'm having the same problem but all the other threads i found are not useful/relevant

Thanks!

[Stefanie]

Hi Stephanos,

Can you please let me know what kind of error message you are getting when trying to start Dropbox after this name change of the user folder on Windows?

Thanks.

[Stephanos K.]

Sofia,

Apologies, i misread the earlier post and realized the error was not applicable to my case. I made a new thread in the following link:

https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/204655726-Couldnt-start-Dropbox-due-to-permiss...

[Jifei S.]

Thanks Sofia. Works for me on ubuntu. @Sofia

[Gabriel K.2]

Thanks a million! This helped me getting DB to start up again.      

[Simon P.8]

Thank you Sofia, worked perfectly!

[Teddy]

Does this solution erase the huge dropbox folder on my drive?

My internet connection is slow and I sure don't want to redownload all those files.

Also - why wouldn't "repair permissions" fix this?

How I got here - all I did was do a Security Update and update printer driver (suggested by App Store).  Same hard drives, same everything else.  Yosemite 10.10.5.

[simontaubert]

This saved my day, thank you!

[stacy a.]

"No such file or directory" is the message on terminal for the first step
Help!