macOS Monterey 12 - Couldnt Start Dropbox

[RobertPatton]

bn.BUILD_KEY: Dropbox
bn.VERSION: 131.4.3968
bn.constants.WINDOWS_SHELL_EXT_VERSION: 48
bn.is_frozen: True
machine_id: dd8495f4-eeb6-52f3-a698-4cbb0543dbcf
pid: 3947
ppid: 1
uid: 501
user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='robertpatton', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Robert Patton', pw_dir='/Users/robertpatton', pw_shell='/bin/bash')
effective_user_info: pwd.struct_passwd(pw_name='robertpatton', pw_passwd='********', pw_uid=501, pw_gid=20, pw_gecos='Robert Patton', pw_dir='/Users/robertpatton', pw_shell='/bin/bash')
euid: 501
gid: 20
egid: 20
group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root'])
effective_group_info: grp.struct_group(gr_name='staff', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=20, gr_mem=['root'])
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH: None
cwd: '/'
real_path='/'
mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
parent mode=0o40755 uid=0 gid=0
HOME: '/Users/robertpatton'
appdata: '/Users/robertpatton/.dropbox/instance1'
real_path='/Users/robertpatton/.dropbox/instance1'
mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
parent mode=0o40700 uid=501 gid=20
dropbox_path: '/Users/robertpatton/Dropbox'
real_path='/Users/robertpatton/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/yy/w1nv1hm92x1bn8cmjznvcs780000gn/T'
real_path='/private/var/folders/yy/w1nv1hm92x1bn8cmjznvcs780000gn/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 808, in wrapper
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6525, in finish_dropbox_boot
File "dropbox/client/message_queue.pyc", line 307, in _wrapped
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 6052, in _init_components_for_account
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 5976, in create_sync_engine
File "dropbox/sync_engine_boundary/factory.pyc", line 226, in make_sync_engine
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/sync_engine.pyc", line 280, in __init__
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/modern_client.pyc", line 219, in __init__
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/modern_client/base.pyc", line 152, 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 587, in _init_new_engine_locked
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc", line 182, 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 |>> fchflags syscall: _set_hidden |>> Permission denied"

[Hannah]

Hey @RayNoyes, sorry to jump in here.

On a macOS computer, the default location of the Dropbox folder would be /Users/YourUsername/Dropbox (such as /Users/Robert/Dropbox).

Is that were your Dropbox folder is located?

[RayNoyes]

Hi Hannah. Thanks for jumping in. The more brains the better!

Yes, I have DB in Login Items under Users and Groups. (As is Microsoft Word, although that doesn't matter in this case, I suppose.)

[RayNoyes]

Strictly speaking I have Users/Ray's Mac Admin/Dropbox. 

[Jay]

Since you have a linked personal and work account, the Terminal commands would be different. You need to re-enter all the command from the start, and change all mentions of:

~/Dropbox

 to 

"/Users/Ray's Mac Admin/Dropbox (Personal)"

You need to keep the quotation marks in order for the changes to come into affect. Make sure NOT to change ~/.dropbox since this is a different command.

[RayNoyes]

Hi Jay. Did all that (I didn't, though, replace lower case dropbox, just capital case Dropbox with the 'phrase' you suggested), and the same problem occurred. 'Couldn't start Dropbox'.

The very first response in Terminal was "no such file or directory".

Here's a screen shot of Terminal ... 

Should I have replaced all mention of both types of the word Dropbox (and dropbox) from the lines of ''code''? I only replaced the word Dbox which has a capital letter.

I tried launching DBox app and it wouldn't open it - again!

[RayNoyes]

Hi Jay, again

In case it means something to you, this is the error message I got when trying to launch Dbox.

 

[RayNoyes]

Hi Jay. The logo for Dropbox suddenly appeared in my top bar.  It's faint though. Clicked on it and it was trying to show 'activity' but wasn't getting anywhere. Other options, such as 'sync' were inactive. Perhaps we're getting somewhere?

[Jay]

Okay, the Dropbox app is looking for "/Users/iMac/Dropbox (Personal)", so make sure to enter that, with quotation marks, in the Terminal commands.

[RayNoyes]

Hi Jay. I did that yesterday - no luck.

[RayNoyes]

I've just completed the Terminal action again, using "/Users/iMac/Dropbox (Personal)" and the error message this time is ....

 But I did get a notification that Bitdefender wanted access, which I gave it.