Dropbox won't install

[bad03xtreme]

I am trying to install dropbox on my iMac at work, I already installed it on my two other computers without issue but on my iMac I get this error. Any idea how to solve this? 😕

 

[miles01110]

The obvious suggestion would be to try repairing permissions on your hard drive with Disk Utility.

 

[bad03xtreme]

The obvious suggestion would be to try repairing permissions on your hard drive with Disk Utility.

I will run that and see if it helps, thanks.

EDIT: I ran permissions repair and it gave me the same error?

 

[richard.mac]

open Terminal and type sudo open then type the whole directory written in blue then press enter. then paste the contents here in a new post with in

 tags.

might give some clarification on which directory to change the permissions of.

 

[bad03xtreme]

open Terminal and type sudo open then type the whole directory written in blue then press enter. then paste the contents here in a new post with in

 tags.

might give some clarification on which directory to change the permissions of.[/QUOTE]

I tried this and when I hit enter it just goes to the next line and does nothing.

sudo open /var/folders/gZ/gZz+NuIDHZehAelkxnO2fE+++TM/-Tmp-/dropbox_errorovbEAU.txt  
:confused:

 

[richard.mac]

did you reboot? maybe it was removed. try copy and pasting the directory WITHOUT the txt file name into Finder's Go to Folder (command-shift-G) and seeing if the text file is there.

the reason i said try sudo open is because maybe the directory was inaccessible due to permissions, however now i think it can be accessed without root permissions.

 

[bad03xtreme]

did you reboot? maybe it was removed. try copy and pasting the directory WITHOUT the txt file name into Finder's Go to Folder (command-shift-G) and seeing if the text file is there.

the reason i said try sudo open is because maybe the directory was inaccessible due to permissions, however now i think it can be accessed without root permissions.

I did not reboot, I tried the go to folder and got folder not found. I can't figure out what would cause this.

 

[bad03xtreme]

Found a thread on dropbox's forum and they just released a new build not linked yet so here is the direct link to the new build that address the permissions issue. 😀

Thanks for the help!!

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=31552&replies=39