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"Dropbox needs to change permissions" message on startup
Lately, every time I start my Mac (OS 10.14.6) I get a message that reads (in full):
"Dropbox needs to change permissions for the Folder: /Users/[name]/Dropbox
Enter your password to allow this"...
Hi Rachel R.2,
Can you try following commands in terminal:
sudo chflags -R noschg "/Users/$USER/Dropbox" sudo chflags -R nouchg "/Users/$USER/Dropbox" sudo chown -R "$USER" "/Users/$USER/Dropbox" chmod -R u+rw "/Users/$USER/Dropbox"
Will be asked for your password (sudo).
Hope this helps. :wink:
The solution in this thread, as other threads i've read, didn't work.
But, what worked was:
1) go in your Users folder and create a new folder with the same name as your old user (the own that the Dropbox alert is searching)
2) then open dropbox
3) BACKUP your dropbox folder just in case
4) if you have reached the 3 users, sign out this computer and try do the same steps as the first time your run Dropbox, but choose your new_user folder
5) the Dropbox will work nice and will re-sync all your files (that you already have in place) using the /Users/new_user/Dropbox folder
6) delete your Users/old_name folder
