From what I understand it looks like your Home directory is “locked”. Can you please do the following steps to fix this?\n
\n\n- Right-click on your Home folder → /Users/{your username}
\n- Select \"Get Info\" from the menu
\n- Uncheck the \"Locked\" checkbox.
\n
\nIf you have certain folders intentionally locked, then after doing the above you can go ahead and re-lock any folders within your Home directory that aren't the Dropbox folder.
Let me know how you get on, Peter!
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I checked as you suggested.
The home directory “locked” status is UNCHECKED. Also, none of the enclosed folders are locked as far as I can tell—and the Dropbox folder has been deleted too, as part of the advanced re-installed.
As a test, I checked the Locked status. Rebooted. Unchecked it. Rebooted. Then tried to open Dropbox. Same error persists, unfortunately
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Otherwise, you could also try the following:
\n
\n\n- Click on the apple icon in the top left hand corner of your screen.
\n- Select \"System Preferences...\"
\n- Then \"Security & Privacy.\"
\n- Select the Privacy tab.
\n- Select \"Files and Folders.\"
\n- Under Dropbox, ensure that all the folders are checked.
\n
\nTo make changes, you will need to click on the lock icon, and enter your macOS password.
Now, attempt to restart the Dropbox desktop app.
Let me know if this helped, Peter!
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File \"dropbox/client/main.pyc\", line 821, in wrapper
File \"dropbox/client/main.pyc\", line 6488, in finish_dropbox_boot
File \"dropbox/client/message_queue.pyc\", line 307, in _wrapped
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File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/sync_engine.pyc\", line 275, in __init__
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/modern_client.pyc\", line 219, in __init__
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/base.pyc\", line 149, in __init__
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc\", line 223, in __init__
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc\", line 597, in _init_new_engine_locked
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc\", line 182, in __init__
File \"extensions/nucleus/nucleus_python.pyx\", line 76, in nucleus_python.NucleusSyncEngine.__cinit__
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File \"dropbox/client/main.pyc\", line 6537, in finish_dropbox_boot
File \"dropbox/client/message_queue.pyc\", line 313, in _wrapped
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File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/sync_engine.pyc\", line 278, in __init__
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/modern_client.pyc\", line 245, in __init__
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File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc\", line 209, in __init__
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc\", line 520, in _init_new_engine_locked
File \"dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc\", line 188, in __init__
File \"desktop/extensions/nucleus/nucleus_python.pyx\", line 76, in nucleus_python.NucleusSyncEngine.__cinit__
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\n
\nWould you mind trying these steps, and performing an Advanced re-install?
\n
\nThat should do the trick.
\n
\nKeep me posted on the results.
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Tried once more, after double-checking firewall off.
uninstall DB
reboot
delete DB folders from local storage, and empty bin
reboot
search and delete every 'dropbox' named file in ~/library
reboot
advanced reinstall
reboot
logoff DB on webclient
reboot
start DB
login
accept all vanilla (recommended) options
and it started and seems to be sync-ing correctly.
Not sure what changed this time around, but DB seems to be working again.
Thanks for your help.
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