Standalone OSX players can't start after having been through DropBox 0.7.110

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Not really my question, but something I found while testing over several plaforms.

I was building standalone players for all possible platforms and used DropBox to distribute the .app builds from a Win XP machine.

Now, this is my steps:

  1. Build OSX standalone players from Windows XP to your DropBox folder
  2. Wait for DropBox to synchronise the players to a OSX (10.6.4 in this instance)
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So I had a conversation with a DropBox support guy, who indicated that they have a fix in the pipeline.

He basically told me to get their latest version (which at the moment is not linked to from their main website):

Do a

  • chmod +x Standalone.app/Contents/MacOS/*

Or download the latest version of DropBox

To install on Linux, run the following terminal commands from your home directory:

  • $ dropbox stop
  • $ dropbox status # Should report "not running"
  • $ rm -r ~/.dropbox-dist/
  • $ tar xzf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.112.tar.gz # or x86_64
  • $ dropbox start

The .8 client should be able to better sync the execute bit, but I can't guarantee it will work properly at the moment. File mode syncing is something we will be working on improving in the future.

If this does not work for you, please direct any further issues at DropBox support and send my regards to Gregory.