Dropbox token fails behind macOS firewall
On macOS, rclone cannot finish Dropbox token retrieval when a firewall like Little Snitch is running.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
10 public reports · first reported 20 September 2026 · last reported 23 September 2026
What's going wrong
Some Mac users set up a new rclone Dropbox remote and the browser shows success, but rclone then fails to receive the token with a network error.
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