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blloyd
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Photoshop won't Save for Web unless Dropbox Desktop & Documents backup disabled
This issue affects Adobe Photoshop and the Dropbox backup features on Mac Big Sur. When the Desktop and Documents are selected as Personal backup folders, it seems to mess up the Adobe permissions, ...
Jay
Dropbox Staff
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We appreciate your feedback on this matter.
This info could help other users on the forum if they experience similar issues in future.
ihouseu
3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
I've managed to fix this. Here's the steps:
Disable Dropbox Backup temporally in settings.
Close Dropbox.
Find Dropbox in Applications, right click, go to Get Info.
Add Read/Write access to Administrators & Everyone. Save.
Open Dropbox.
Enable Backups again.
Open photoshop and hey presto Export for Web is working and Dropbox Backups are enabled.
- casperholm2 years agoNew member | Level 2
- acantwell2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Excellent, thanks; it worked for me. iMac 2017 Intel, OS 13.2.1
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