You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Jon B.1
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
OAuth permissions issues in SwiftyDropbox under Ventura?
Have there been any changes in recent versions of SwiftyDropbox to accommodate any new security restrictions on Ventura? I developed a macOS app with a FileProvider Finder extension, which initia...
- 2 years ago
Update on this: I think the infinite number of Dropbox warnings were down to startup issues -- the FileProvider extension was trying to get basic Dropbox details (including the local path) before checking whether the main app was up and running yet, so it would keep reiterating the warning while the main app was still trying to authenticate. The solution was to move the initial Dropbox calls to after the main app had successfully authenticated.
We still get two access warnings on initial authentication, but we can live with that! Thanks.
Do you have any more details of the "fixes for use in application extensions"? For our limited use of Dropbox in our extension, we haven't had any problems to date under Monterey.
Jon B.1
Collaborator | Level 9
Update on this: I think the infinite number of Dropbox warnings were down to startup issues -- the FileProvider extension was trying to get basic Dropbox details (including the local path) before checking whether the main app was up and running yet, so it would keep reiterating the warning while the main app was still trying to authenticate. The solution was to move the initial Dropbox calls to after the main app had successfully authenticated.
We still get two access warnings on initial authentication, but we can live with that! Thanks.
Do you have any more details of the "fixes for use in application extensions"? For our limited use of Dropbox in our extension, we haven't had any problems to date under Monterey.
Jon B.1
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Further update: the FileProvider fix in 9.2.0 appears to be specific to iOS mobile devices -- this is a desktop macOS FileProvider, so not relevant to us.
So thanks -- this is a non-issue!
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