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Petter123
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13 hours ago

I can't activate File Provider on my Dropbox desktop application on Mac OS 15.1

I'm trying to debug a problem a user of my macOS application has, where it won't read files on an external drive handled by Dropbox. The files are in `~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/`, which I assume...
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Petter123
New member | Level 1
12 hours ago

I've tried setting my Dropbox folder to different locations (on my local disk), but I kept getting the same response. Where does it need to be for File Provider support to work?

The user making the bug report apparently has her files on an external HDD, though, so that is the setup I would need in order to test this properly.

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