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Rachel R.2's avatar
Rachel R.2
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

"Dropbox needs to change permissions" message on startup

Lately, every time I start my Mac (OS 10.14.6) I get a message that reads (in full):  "Dropbox needs to change permissions for the Folder: /Users/[name]/Dropbox Enter your password to allow this"...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    6 years ago

    Hi Rachel R.2,

    Can you try following commands in terminal:

    sudo chflags -R noschg "/Users/$USER/Dropbox"
sudo chflags -R nouchg "/Users/$USER/Dropbox"
sudo chown -R "$USER" "/Users/$USER/Dropbox"
chmod -R u+rw "/Users/$USER/Dropbox"

    Will be asked for your password (sudo).

    Hope this helps. :wink:

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20

Hmm... interesting...

Let's try different possibilities. First, if and what kind of links you have inside Dropbox:

ls -alRP "/Users/mjulia/Dropbox (Personal)" | grep " -> "

If there is some result, pointing path have to be inside your Dropbox folder, otherwise could be the problem. Next, to remove potentially quarantine for part(s), try following:

xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine "/Users/mjulia/Dropbox (Personal)"

 

Hope some of the above commands will solve the issue.

FreddoArgento's avatar
FreddoArgento
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

I tried these too.

I am dragging the folder name from Finder into Dropbox to avoid typos. But its is the standatd location, anyhow. 

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