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iCloud blocking file in Dropbox
An app that I wrote for our club accesses an SQLite DB file in our Dropbox.
Most members have no trouble.
One member uses iCloud and gets "permission denied ' when he tries to access this DB.
The DB file sometimes has a small cloud symbol next to it. Hovering on this pops up a "file not downloaded" message. Clicking on it frees up the DB file for use by the app.
The info on the file shows it is actually in : ~user/Library/CloudStorage/....
There is no reference to Dropbox in the Settings->iCloud->Applications using iCloud section of settings (as shown in the iOS discussion re iCloud and Dropbox) .
How can I stop iCloud interfering with this file as Dropbox is already an adequate backup?
Hey rjkg, sorry to jump in, but I just wanted to mention that 'available offline' files will still sync normally.
For more information about online only and available offline files, you can take a look here.
As for the user who's getting the error, could you check if they've granted Dropbox full disk access as outlined here?
The error message is (error caught by my code within Tcl) :
authorization denied
authorization denied
while executing
"sqlite3 dbcmd $SQLITEDB -create 0"
(procedure "login_ok" line 45)
invoked from within ....
Dropbox version: 178.4.4811
MacOS : Ventura 13.4.1
This is what he sees in Settings - no mention of Dropbox - 2 screenshots as the list goes to 2 screens :
The app is a user interface to a membership management database. The database itself is a single SQLite file, in Dropbox.
Sorry about the delay I had to wait for the member to reply with the details.
rjkg
