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jflintwinch
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Paths to files after the forced move of the Dropbox folder (Mac OS)

After my Dropbox folder was moved to ~/Library/CloudStorage, I'm having trouble with applications that rely on having a physical working directory.   A lot of my R code is in Dropbox but the orgina...
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  • jflintwinch's avatar
    jflintwinch
    3 years ago

    I'm gonna answer my own question...

     

    It appears that after moving the Dropbox folder to `~/Library/CloudStorage`, one has to grant Full Disk Access (System Preferences > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access) to applications accessing files in the Dropbox folder. After doing that for R, Stata, Texifier, and TeXShop, the above problems vanished.

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jflintwinch
New member | Level 2

I'm gonna answer my own question...

 

It appears that after moving the Dropbox folder to `~/Library/CloudStorage`, one has to grant Full Disk Access (System Preferences > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access) to applications accessing files in the Dropbox folder. After doing that for R, Stata, Texifier, and TeXShop, the above problems vanished.

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Munish
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Hi, 

I am still facing the same problem even after applying the solution suggested, can you help me with it. 

Thanks!

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    Mark
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    2 years ago
    Munish  wrote:

    Hi, 

    I am still facing the same problem even after applying the solution suggested, can you help me with it. 

    Thanks!

    Have you tried in the applications themselves to move the storage location of where it expects to see files?

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