Dropbox won't start after moving location of user folder

beep me when you have an answer. I'm facing the same problem

I've just had this. The dropbox preferences are in a hidden directory (.dropbox) in your home folder. Delete that and it should start up as it would with a clean install.

To do this:

1. Open terminal
2. run 'sudo rm -r .dropbox'
3. enter your password

That *should* sort it. I'd renamed my home directory and this messed it up, before I did the steps above I created an alias to my new location that matched to old name, I'm not sure if this is needed but worth a try if the above doesn't sort it..

thanks, it fixed my issue

This fixed my issue too. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this sudo command to repair Dropbox permissions. It worked like a charm! Very grateful.

Thanks for the tip, it works perfectly!

Thanks a lot, solved the same problem for me as well.

I tried this, but it didn't work for me. My Dropbox folder is in an account that does not have Admin privileges, so the sudo command does not work.

Every time I reboot, I get the Dropbox error. Then I've had to delete the ~/Dropbox folder using Admin privileges, log in to Dropbox with my browser, and relink. All my files are downloaded and re-syncing begins again. It's a real pain. Can I use Terminal to delete the .dropbox file from a non-administrative account?

Thank you for the solution!!

Thank you Dellbridge, this worked wonderfully. I was having this permissions error after installing an SSD with the data doubler in my Macbook Pro.

You need to make sure you are in the correct directory (the user directory) before you run this command, or else you will get a "file or directory not found" error.

Thanks, helped me also!

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Thank you for the solution! Works great!

Thanks !!!!

It works. Thank you. No need to create matching named new location. ✅

Thanks! It worked!