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James P.45's avatar
James P.45
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Stuck "importing photos..."

My dropbox is set to auto import/upload my iphone photos, which it is doing. But it keeps telling me it's "importing photos..." and the menubar symbol is constantly the camera symbol that usually com...
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John G.139's avatar
John G.139
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

 

I got rid of the perpetual OSX El Capitan Dropbox import pictures issue. 

I tried to blast a file to get Dropbox to regenerate it and I got a message that root didn't have permissions to delete the file. WHAT?? Oh yeah, system integrity implemented in El Capitan. Not a problem. Though, there shouldn't be any files protected by system integrity in the .Dropbox folder.. alas.. there is. Grrrrrrr.... Here is how you deal with this:

1. Boot in to recovery mode by holding R at boot. 

2. In terminal enter the command csrutil enable --without debug

3. Rebooted the Mac.

4. Quit Dropbox

5. Unplug Cell Phone from USB.

6. Start Dropbox and let it complete initial index. 

7. Plug in Cell phone and allow it to sync pictures. 

Hope this helps someone. 

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