THanks @donawalt, this worked for me.
donawalt wrote:I thought I would share this - I have been waiting for the permanent fix from Dropbox, which will BE this fix - it has not come out yet, so I thought I would share the fix that worked for me. I think this is all they are going to add into an update but I am not sure about that. Can you see if this works for you? You may have to restart your computer if it doesn't work, but I didn't have to.
Open Terminal, and enter this command (all one line):
IFS=$'\\n'; for path in `python -c $'import os\\nimport json\\nfor key, value in json.loads(open(os.path.expanduser(\"~/.dropbox/info.json\")).read()).items():\\n print value[\"path\"].encode(\"utf-8\")'`; do echo \"$path\"; xattr -d com.apple.quarantine \"$path\"; done
Then try the drag and drop again!
This works! Thank you donawalt!
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zsh: command not found: xattr
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1. Open Terminal - see the title in the window? It says zsh right?
2. chsh -s /bin/bash
3. It will ask for your password
4. Close Terminal window and reopen it - you should see \"bash\" in the title of the window now
5. Now enter this (all one line, just copy and paste it):
IFS=$'\\n'; for path in `python -c $'import os\\nimport json\\nfor key, value in json.loads(open(os.path.expanduser(\"~/.dropbox/info.json\")).read()).items():\\n print value[\"path\"].encode(\"utf-8\")'`; do echo \"$path\"; xattr -d com.apple.quarantine \"$path\"; done
6. If you want to change it back to the default zsh after this is done, close the Terminal window, open a new Terminal window, and type chsh -s /bin/zsh. It will prompt again for your password, then close the Terminal window. Next time you will see zsh in the title!
Good luck!
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