安装 Dropbox 升级后 MacOS 命令 shell 出现问题

Question

Recently I installed a Dropbox update on a Mac M1 mini (Monterey) which changed the Dropbox folder from a simple folder to a "Location" in the Finder. I found the new path name, which is in my home directory under Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.

I was reminded that it's possible to drag an object from the Finder into the Terminal app, but only if you use the whole pathname. If you try to 'cd' down one directory at a time, you get a permission error when the working directory is Dropbox.

joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini / % cd /Users
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini /Users % cd joecascio 
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini ~ % cd Library 
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini Library % cd CloudStorage 
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini CloudStorage % cd Dropbox 
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini Dropbox % ls
ls: .: Operation not permitted
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini Dropbox % pwd            
/Users/joecascio/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox

But if you just skip over trying to cd through the Dropbox folder, it works.

joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini Dropbox % cd /
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini / % cd Users/joecascio/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/projects/COVID-19
joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini COVID-19 % ls
CLL-COVID-action-plan       ct-towns
COVID-19_Town_Level_Data.csv    ct.numbers
Stonington.numbers      new-london-ct.numbers
covid-19-data-master        state-county-bustout.py
ct-town-bustout copy.py     state-county-recent-bustout.py
ct-town-bustout-old.py      states
ct-town-bustout.py

It's probably something to do with permissions, but I can't figure what because the permissions on the Dropbox folder are as follows.

joecascio@Josephs-Mac-mini CloudStorage % sudo ls -la              
total 24
drwxr-xr-x    4 joecascio  staff   128 Jan 22 20:47 .
drwx------@ 102 joecascio  staff  3264 Jun  2  2022 ..
-rw-r--r--@   1 joecascio  staff  8196 Jan 24 14:22 .DS_Store
drwx------@  66 joecascio  staff  2112 Jan 24 06:02 Dropbox

Any ideas would be welcome, esp from Dropbox support.

Answer 1

You can drag path from finder to terminal.

Drag path to iTerm