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ameliebouan
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Can't start Dropbox because of permission error

Hi! I have two profiles on my Mac: one for my personal use, and one for my professional use. The profile for personal use has admin rights, the profile for professional use does not (but I could se...
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    ameliebouan
    5 years ago

    Hi Walter!

    That second solution didn't work either, but what I did was I set my Work profile on my Mac as an admin, deleted Dropbox doing the clean uninstall (your first solution), redownloaded and... it worked! I didn't try to have the same Dropbox accounts on both my Personal and Work profile... but that's ok - I can open both, I'll work with shared folders to transfer stuff from one to another and boom! Thanks a lot for your time and help.