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daedalus
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Dropbox Update constantly asking for hard disk permission every 30-60 minutes in windows 10

This is not really an error message, but I couldn't think of a better category for this issue.   Within the last few days, dropbox has been acting strangely. I have been getting permission pop-ups ...
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  • marc64's avatar
    marc64
    5 years ago

    Happy to note that full unsinstall of my previous version (102.4.431) and install of today's latest (103.4.383) did the trick!

     

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daedalus
Helpful | Level 6

@Rich You're right. Upon downloading the installer and attempting an update, I now receive the error message "Dropbox Update installation failed with error 0x80004002". This happens for both the online and offline installers. Deactivating my antivirus does nothing to help the situation. I'm at a loss as to what to do.

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Rich
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8 years ago
That's a Windows error code. Google it and you'll likely get a lot of hits.

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