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OzManDad
New member | Level 1
2 months ago

MS Word no long "likes" documents stored on external Dropbox locations (Mac OS 10.15 Sequoia)

So I recently updated from 10.14 to 10.15, and everything looks good except for MS Word. I keep my Dropbox file on an external drive (formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled), and whenever I try to ed...
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  • OzManDad's avatar
    OzManDad
    27 days ago

    SOLVED: This is NOT a Dropbox issue, it's a Microsoft issue.

    Go to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access and grant access to MS Word. 

    This has fixed my problem. If it hasn't for you, please add your comments here.

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ext237
New member | Level 1
30 days ago

Exact same issue.  Have to save it to my desktop and then drag it where it needs to be.  Interested in anyone that finds a solution.  My dropbox folder is on a USB RAID drive (Thunderbolt/iMac/Sequoia)

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