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iCloud blocking file in Dropbox
An app that I wrote for our club accesses an SQLite DB file in our Dropbox.
Most members have no trouble.
One member uses iCloud and gets "permission denied ' when he tries to access this DB.
T...
Hey rjkg, sorry to jump in, but I just wanted to mention that 'available offline' files will still sync normally.
For more information about online only and available offline files, you can take a look here.
As for the user who's getting the error, could you check if they've granted Dropbox full disk access as outlined here?
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey rjkg, thanks for reaching out to us.
Can you send us a screenshot of the error message this member is receiving?
Is this an API app that you've created?
Also, what's the Dropbox version and the OS version of this person's computer?
Let me know and we'll go from there.
The error message is (error caught by my code within Tcl) :
authorization denied
authorization denied
while executing
"sqlite3 dbcmd $SQLITEDB -create 0"
(procedure "login_ok" line 45)
invoked from within ....
Dropbox version: 178.4.4811
MacOS : Ventura 13.4.1
This is what he sees in Settings - no mention of Dropbox - 2 screenshots as the list goes to 2 screens :
The app is a user interface to a membership management database. The database itself is a single SQLite file, in Dropbox.
Sorry about the delay I had to wait for the member to reply with the details.
rjkg
I reference it as /Users/<user>/Dropbox/heathdb/heath.db which works for the other 6 or 7 people wjo use this app.
But looking at the file info <Cmd-i>, without checking again with the member, the real file name, as I remember it, is
/Users/<user>/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/heathdb/heath.db
rjkg
- Jay
Hi rjkg, this is unrelated to iCloud, as the CloudStorage location is a new requirement by Mac OS for newer installations of the Dropbox desktop application.
You can read up more about this change from here.
Since that user is on the newer version, the link you specified for the other users won't work for them.
