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Dan C.6's avatar
Dan C.6
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Can only install with "Run as administrator", possibly causing sync'ing problems

On Windows 7, my account is the administrator account, yet I could only install dropbox by running the install file 'as administrator' (right-click > Run as Administrator). I received a warning when ...
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  • Dan C.6's avatar
    Dan C.6
    10 years ago

    FIXED! Had to set the installer exe to run in compatibility mode.

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Sean C.14
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Check the permissions on your %TEMP% directory; I had the same issue which compatibility mode did not fix so dug deeper and discovered the default permissions to my 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp' directory were incorrect (make sure the user has at least modify permissions to create/delete here).

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