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smithtim47
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

Why were some of my folders moved into the Dropbox folder, leaving behind aliases, on Mac OS Sonoma?

     Last night I experienced a weird and unsettling problem. All of a sudden, without any discernible reason, I lost permissions to access both my Desktop and Documents folders in MacOS Sonoma 14.6....
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Jay
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2 months ago

Hi smithtim47, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Is it possible that you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature on your device?

 

Have you recently made any changes to your Dropbox account, or signed into a different account entirely?

 

This will help me to assist further.

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