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New member | Level 2

2 months ago

Started today on MacOS Sequoia - Dropbox is constantly "connecting components".

Dropbox constatly "connecting components" on MacOS Sequoa M1
Restarted, updated, applied firewall fix from existing thread - nothing helped so far

Ophiuhus
2 months ago
Hey, I just updated to 15.0.1 and dropbox successfully connected.
Thanks for your time.

DBX_Pedro
Community Manager
2 months ago
Hi Ophiuhus ,

Thanks for reaching out to us about this.

Is this happening with the Dropbox app ? Can you please provide a screenshot of the error message?
- Ophiuhus
  New member | Level 2
  2 months ago
  It is in Ukrainian though - but it is saying "connecting components"
  - DBX_Pedro
    Community Manager
    2 months ago
    Hi Ophiuhus ,
    
    Can you please try the following :
    
    Go to the top left corner
    
    press the Apple Logo
    
    System Settings
    
    Network
    
    Firewall
    
    Options from the Firewall
    
    Untick block all incoming connections
    
    Then allow incoming connections from Dropbox
    
    Is this something you are able to do ?
    
    If you are able to do it does it resolve the issue ?

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