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Permissions Error upon Upgrade to Mac Monterey
I just updated to Mac OS Monterey on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2015) and now Dropbox doesn't work anymore. Specifically, I get an error message saying that Dropbox can't start because, "This is usually because of a permissions error." I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I tried the advanced uninstall, I tried fixing permissions in the Dropbox app, and I tried ensuring that my user has the proper "read/write" access and nothing has worked. I would be super grateful to anyone who can help.
Best,
Joseph Federico
- Thanks for sending over the requested screenshot, Michelle!
Have you tried to perform an advanced reinstall, by any chance?
If not, please give that a go and let me know how it goes.
Cheers.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi jvfederico, thanks for posting today!
Do you get an error log with the message about the permissions error, in a blue link?
Have you changed the name of your home folder?
This will help me to assist further!- Hello Jay,
Thank you for your response, I appreciate it. It seems I am not the only one to have this issue regarding upgrading to Monterey. I was able to dig through the Dropbox community better via a google search and found someone else who was able to solve this issue by going to Security & Privacy and giving Dropbox permissions in both Accessibility and Full Disk Access. This fixed it for me.
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-installs-integrations/Couldn-t-Start-Dropbox-macOS-Monterey/td-p/552876
The above link will bring you to the thread where I found my solution. I hope it helps other people if they have the same problem.
Best,
JoeyAccess is already given. This is not the root of the issue. Still not working for many of us.
Hi Jay, this is the log file I got:
bn.BUILD_KEY: Dropbox
bn.VERSION: 138.4.2392
bn.constants.WINDOWS_SHELL_EXT_VERSION: 51
bn.is_frozen: True
machine_id: b6907f58-b55d-5c5a-b6f7-8898ce675d91
pid: 1185
ppid: 1
uid: 501
user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='toussaint', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Toussaint', pw_dir='/Users/toussaint', pw_shell='/bin/zsh')
effective_user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='toussaint', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Toussaint', pw_dir='/Users/toussaint', pw_shell='/bin/zsh')
euid: 501
gid: 20
egid: 20
group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root', '_nsurlstoraged'])
effective_group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root', '_nsurlstoraged'])
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH: None
cwd: '/'
real_path='/'
mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
HOME: '/Users/toussaint'
appdata: '/Users/toussaint/.dropbox/instance1'
real_path='/Users/toussaint/.dropbox/instance1'
mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
dropbox_path: '/Users/toussaint/Dropbox'
real_path='/Users/toussaint/Dropbox'
mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
sys_executable: '/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox'
real_path='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox'
mode=0o100755 uid=501 gid=20
parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
trace.__file__: '/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/python-packages.zip/dropbox/client/ui/common/boot_error.pyc'
real_path='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/python-packages.zip/dropbox/client/ui/common/boot_error.pyc'
not found
parent not found
tempdir: '/var/folders/wp/yks3vym50xvdpqvhkbpfgds80000gn/T'
real_path='/private/var/folders/wp/yks3vym50xvdpqvhkbpfgds80000gn/T'
mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
parent mode=0o40755 uid=501 gid=20
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 832, in wrapper
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6623, in finish_dropbox_boot
File "dropbox/client/message_queue.pyc", line 313, in _wrapped
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6170, in _init_components_for_account
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6094, in create_sync_engine
File "dropbox/sync_engine_boundary/factory.pyc", line 218, in make_sync_engine
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/sync_engine.pyc", line 277, in __init__
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/modern_client.pyc", line 247, in __init__
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/base.pyc", line 177, in __init__
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc", line 217, in __init__
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc", line 529, in _init_new_engine_locked
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc", line 133, in __init__
File "desktop/extensions/nucleus/nucleus_python.pyx", line 76, in nucleus_python.NucleusSyncEngine.__cinit__
nucleus_python.SyncEngineError: "Initializing engine |>> Initializing filesystem |>> Attempting to register icons |>> Reading existing xattr |>> fgetxattr syscall: determined size |>> Permission denied"
