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After removing dropbox from my Mac, it still appears in "login" items. Help?
I am running the latest version of Ventura on Mac. After being a long time fan of dropbox, I decided to stop using it after having problems with the syncing function and the way it would move files a...
Thank you so much!! This terminal command
cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents rm com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist
finally solved my issue of Dropbox appearing in the Allow in the Background menu under Login Items. Woot!
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey WonderingAboutThat, thanks for this info.
May we reach out to you via email, so we can take a closer look into this?
That would be fantastic! I would really appreciate the help. Is there a way I can send it to you privately without posting it publicly here?
- Jay
HI WonderingAboutThat, I've sent you an email, please could you reply to it as soon as possible!
Same issue for me. Tried uninstalling DropBox but I still show the following in my login items. Super annoying. How do I remove this?
I have been in contact with dropbox support and they have not been able to provide a solution. They recommend I contact apple support but I haven't had good luck with apple support recently, so I'm waiting till I'm in a patient mindset and ready to deal with a long customer support call.
Here are the instructions that the dropbox support offered me but when I typed in the terminal commands, I received the error message that "no file or folder exists." PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS WORKS FOR YOU AND IF YOU FIND A SOLUTION. Best of luck!
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If you do wish to proceed with removing the Dropbox application completely, I understand you've already attempted to do the following:
Click the Dropbox icon in the menu bar.- Click your avatar (profile picture or initials).
- Click Quit.
- Open Finder.
- Click Applications.
- Drag Dropbox to the Trash.
To also remove the Dropbox folder from your hard drive, drag your Dropbox folder to the Trash.
The next step I would advise in order to Delete the remaining Dropbox system folders is to do the following;- Open your Finder and click Applications.
- Open your Terminal application.
- Copy and paste the following lines one at a time into the terminal. Press enter after each one.
- Don't type commands by hand.
- When prompted, enter your computer admin password (not your Dropbox password) and press enter.
- Important: We assume that your Dropbox folder is in the default pathway. If you have placed your Dropbox folder in a custom location, replace all ~/Dropbox with the full location of your Dropbox folder in quotation marks. For example, if you have your Dropbox folder in the path /Volumes/DifferentPlace/Dropbox, you need to replace ~/Dropbox from the following instructions to "/Volumes/DifferentPlace/Dropbox".
sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME"
sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox
sudo mv ~/.dropbox ~/.Trash/dropbox.old
sudo chmod -N ~
sudo mv /Library/DropboxHelperTools ~/DropboxHelperTools.old
