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Michael S.100's avatar
Michael S.100
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

dropbox system extension not showing up

Hi there,   I just installed dropbox on a brand new MacBook. I'd like to activate SmartSync. The setupwizard ist opening my system-preferences/security/ and wants me to accept the system extension....
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    Michael S.100
    7 years ago

     

    Thanks for your suggestions. It seems that the dropbox-version provided by homebrew/cask is some kind of developement build with a broken kernel extensions...

    So I solved the problem with complete removing my dropbox installation and re-install it using the "official" client downloaded via dropbox.com

    :/

     

    Michael

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Rich
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jcourtneycozero wrote:

What does this have to do with homebrew?!

The version of Dropbox that Michael S.100 was using came from Homebrew-Cask, and was not an official Dropbox installer. When Michael used the officiall installer, downloaded from the Dropbox website, the problem was solved. This means that the issue he had likely isn't with Dropbox, but with the unofficial version/installer that he originally used.

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