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Rachel R.2
6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
"Dropbox needs to change permissions" message on startup
Lately, every time I start my Mac (OS 10.14.6) I get a message that reads (in full):
"Dropbox needs to change permissions for the Folder: /Users/[name]/Dropbox
Enter your password to allow this"...
- 6 years ago
Hi Rachel R.2,
Can you try following commands in terminal:
sudo chflags -R noschg "/Users/$USER/Dropbox" sudo chflags -R nouchg "/Users/$USER/Dropbox" sudo chown -R "$USER" "/Users/$USER/Dropbox" chmod -R u+rw "/Users/$USER/Dropbox"
Will be asked for your password (sudo).
Hope this helps. :wink:
Samsam
Explorer | Level 4
So Apple insisted on auto-updating my contact details by a name I don't use.
They told world my name is James Newman, but I go by my second name ANDREW Newman.
This confuses my friends who have no idea who James is and why he is in their phone contact lists! They also lose my name and number!
Apple advised that the only way to stop this was to change all references deep in the belly of my mac
from user/jamesnewman/
to user/andrewnewman/
Since making that change Dropbox hasn't worked in the folders on my mac.
It presents the password request below on a repeating loop, but because the user/jamesnewman/ no longer exists, the permission cannot get updated.
When I enter the password, the box goes away, but nothing happens.
When I reopen DB, I get the prompt again.
90 minutes of chatting to apple support and trying various things hasn't helped.
We've tried
- delete app from mac
- delete folders
- reinstall
Any ninja ideas?
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