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ropeless
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Eliminate Dropbox start-up race condition

My Dropbox folder is on an encrypted drive which is automatically unlocked at login (on a Mac). The Dropbox app is automatically started at login. This causes a race condition and Dropbox often canno...
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Nancy
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Hi ropeless, thanks for posting here.

 

I’d like to thank you for your feedback, first of all. 

 

Other than that, what you can do in this scenario, is to use a third-party app/script to delay the startup of the Dropbox app, or disable the automatic Dropbox startup completely and launch the app manually, when the drive is available.

 

I hope this helps a bit.

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ropeless
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Thanks for a quick response. I was hoping that Dropbox would see my suggestion as a simple-to-implement enhancement rather that a problem for me to solve.  In particular, I'm disappointed that the recommendation is to use a 3rd-party product or to disable automation.

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