Dropbox Update installation failed with error 0x800b010e

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The error is a MS one and sadley not specific. Lets try this an see where we get:

1) Quit Dropbox:

2) Uninstall Dropbox 

3) Restart

4) After this, please proceed to delete remaining registry entries:

  a) Click the Start button. Type REGEDIT in the search box and press Enter.
  b) In the Registry Editor, navigate into the following locations until you find the keys for "Dropbox" and "DropboxUpdate", they will be in either or both of the following two locations:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
  c) In both or either of these folders, please delete only the "Dropbox" and "DropboxUpdate" folders by right-clicking on the individual folders and selecting "Delete".

5) Then, please delete the Dropbox remaining folders:

  a) Open a Windows File Explorer (not Internet Explorer). 
  b) Type %LOCALAPPDATA% into the address bar (include the % percent signs) and press enter. 
  c) Delete the folder "Dropbox" from the resulting window. 
  d) Please repeat these steps with the following folders as well (it's OK if you don't find a Dropbox folder in any of those locations): 
%APPDATA% 
%PROGRAMFILES% 
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)% 
  e) Then restart your system.

Please note that deleting any of these folders will not delete the files in your Dropbox folder.

6) Download the newest version of Dropbox from the following website:

https://www.dropbox.com/downloading

7) Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the installation file and double click on it.

8) During the initial setup and sign in process apply any Selective Sync settings you may have had prior to the reinstall and select the Dropbox folder location (if not in the default location).

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because this process removes the previous settings and configuration, if you wish to avoid re-downloading your Dropbox content you will need to manually choose the location for Dropbox to sync to, otherwise you will create a new Dropbox folder and start to download your content again.

To select your already established folder on your drive, after signing in and choosing which folders to sync, and before you click on "Open my Dropbox folder", you should see an "Advanced Settings" link, click on this.

Then you can choose the parent folder of the already established Dropbox folder, for example, if you have your Dropbox folder in the path "D:\OtherDrive\Folder\Dropbox (Team)" you'll want to select the folder "D:\OtherDrive\Folder".

At the end of this process, after clicking "Open my Dropbox folder", it might take some time to re-index the files and sync any pending changes.

Please note that any changes made to the files in the Dropbox folder, the web interface or other linked devices while the folder was "off-line", will generate conflicted copies:

https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/conflicted-copy

Finally, this process only works when linking to the exact same account that was previously linked to this computer. If you'd like to merge accounts, please refer to the following Help Center article:

https://help.dropbox.com/account/merge-two-accounts

Hope this fixes and if you have any additional questions please let us know and we’ll be happy to assist!