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Stuck "importing photos..."
My dropbox is set to auto import/upload my iphone photos, which it is doing. But it keeps telling me it's "importing photos..." and the menubar symbol is constantly the camera symbol that usually com...
Based off of this page ( https://www.dropbox.com/help/72?path=syncing_and_uploads ) I am trying a permissions fix now. It is still indexing. Here is a shell script I made with their code to do the permissions fix with a variable for your dropbox location since I changed mine to a larger hard drive on my Macbook.
#!/bin/bash
dropboxLocation='/Volumes/Macintosh HDD/Dropbox'
checkCommands(){
sum=$a+$b+$c+$d+$e
if [[ $sum == 5 ]]; then
echo "All commands completed successfully"
else
echo "An error occured. Please check your script."
fi
}
chflags -R nouchg "$dropboxLocation" ~/.dropbox
a=$(echo $?)
chown "$USER" "$HOME"
b=$(echo $?)
chown -R "$USER" "$dropboxLocation" ~/.dropbox
c=$(echo $?)
chmod -RN ~/.dropbox "$dropboxLocation"
d=$(echo $?)
chmod -R u+rw "$dropboxLocation" ~/.dropbox
e=$(echo $?)
checkCommands
Dropbox is resyncing my entire Dropbox file system. This could take a while. I will report back if this helped or not.
