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Dropbox vs. Ventura nightmare (191.4.4995)
Welp, week two and the "new" Dropbox update continues to reek havoc on my iMac. I've read a lot of community threads, and can already weed out that this is not a "beta" version. I've installed DB ver...
UPDATE: Feb 12, 2024
For anyone who finds this thread and is having issues, it's been about a week now since my system has stabilized after updating to the most recent version of Dropbox Desktop app for mac, which initially caused so much trouble for me. I'll admit that I was not optimistic that the Dropbox desktop app for mac would ever be stable again in current Apple/Mac Operating Systems, but it did eventually seem to work itself out. The two keys that seemed to likely help make any difference, although I can't confirm it so it's just my best hunch, are quitting the "fileproviderd" process in the Apple Activity Monitor app, a dozen shut-downs and restarts over several days, and eventually, with enough time, it all returned back to normal—allowing me to do the two special resets. Good luck out there.
Sorry, I don't know what my chat transcript ID was from the other day. You'd have to look that up by my user account.
The "hard-links and permissions" article that you linked me to is for Windows, I'm on Mac OS Ventura. So I would need something more specific for Apple users.
Btw - Dropbox desktop app has just be running for hours and is still on "Starting" under the Sync History tab. And when I click the top menu tray icon, it shows me not logged in. But if I try to "Sign in" nothing happens. I've tried quitting the app and restarting it, same problem. See screen shot.
"Starting" - and not "Signed in" even though I try to Sign In, nothing happens
Ok, apologies, after a second, closer look, I did find the Mac instructions in that article you shared with me. Repairing Hard Links does not work, it gives an error. But repairing Permissions did work successfully. However, then I tried to repair Hard Links, and it still gives an error and says to reach out to support.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Could you check your email's inbox and see if you can find your email interaction with our support team tomgrin74? If you chatted with a member of the support team you should have received an email with a ticket number as a reference.
I'm only asking as at this point we'd need to revert to email communication to further assist with account and device specific information.
Hi Walter, while I appreciate direct communications, I just want to go on record here saying (for other Mac OS Ventura users) so that when they search for this issue in the Community, they don't find a dead end like I have in the past.
I checked my email but must have deleted that transcript from Chat. Should I re-open a new Chat, or how do we transfer this into an email thread without me having to explain it all over again? I appreciate your help because this is extremely frustrating and time consuming for something that only happened after I updated to the new Mac Desktop app for Dropbox.
