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Dropbox Desktop App Sign-In Error - "Something went wrong - Try again or check out our Help Center."
Hi all,
I just installed Dropbox on my Mac (10.15.7) and can't get the sign-in button to load any sign-in page. I get the very helpful error message after clicking the Sign in button "Something...
To close this out for anyone else facing a similar problem, to get Dropbox to reconnect *consistently* and work without any issue, I had to erase my Mac entirely and re-load everything from scratch (not a time machine restore, but a manual drag-and-drop copy of individual files and then manual re-installation of all applications). That fixed my issue.
Cheers.
Hi Walter,
thanks for your reply and suggestions. Yes, I'm the only user on my Mac, and it's an administrator account (as I suppose it has to be in that case), so an install with admin rights was done.
I suppose as the Dropbox install on the other admin account worked, I may need to move all of my data to a new account and see if that works. If you have any suggestions, please let me know, but that gives me a place to start.
Thanks
To close this out for anyone else facing a similar problem, to get Dropbox to reconnect *consistently* and work without any issue, I had to erase my Mac entirely and re-load everything from scratch (not a time machine restore, but a manual drag-and-drop copy of individual files and then manual re-installation of all applications). That fixed my issue.
Cheers.
