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jflintwinch
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Paths to files after the forced move of the Dropbox folder (Mac OS)

After my Dropbox folder was moved to ~/Library/CloudStorage, I'm having trouble with applications that rely on having a physical working directory.   A lot of my R code is in Dropbox but the orgina...
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  • jflintwinch's avatar
    jflintwinch
    2 years ago

    I'm gonna answer my own question...

     

    It appears that after moving the Dropbox folder to `~/Library/CloudStorage`, one has to grant Full Disk Access (System Preferences > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access) to applications accessing files in the Dropbox folder. After doing that for R, Stata, Texifier, and TeXShop, the above problems vanished.

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Walter
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
2 years ago

Hey jflintwinch, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

 

Can you please let us know your computer's exact OS and the status and version of the Dropbox desktop app that's installed there as shown in your menu bar?

 

Are the issues you mentioned happening to online only files or is this affecting your available offline files as well?

 

Keep us posted with your findings and we'll take it from there.

  • jflintwinch's avatar
    jflintwinch
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    I'm gonna answer my own question...

     

    It appears that after moving the Dropbox folder to `~/Library/CloudStorage`, one has to grant Full Disk Access (System Preferences > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access) to applications accessing files in the Dropbox folder. After doing that for R, Stata, Texifier, and TeXShop, the above problems vanished.

    • Munish 's avatar
      Munish
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      Hi, 

      I am still facing the same problem even after applying the solution suggested, can you help me with it. 

      Thanks!

      • Mark's avatar
        Mark
        Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
        2 years ago
        Munish  wrote:

        Hi, 

        I am still facing the same problem even after applying the solution suggested, can you help me with it. 

        Thanks!

        Have you tried in the applications themselves to move the storage location of where it expects to see files?

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