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Removing the Dropbox folder from Cloudstorage
Following a restore from backup (after a ventura update bricked my laptop) I stupidly agreed to move my Dropbox to ~/Library/Cloudstorage/Dropbox. The restore messed up icloud syncing and apple suppo...
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
cosmosnicolaou wrote:
Moving a directory results in a timeout error on the command line, or a 'waiting to download' error in the finder.
Were the files fully downloaded to the local drive when you removed Dropbox, or were they flagged as Online-only (where the local file is just an alias to the online file)? The default for the new macOS update of Dropbox is that all files sync as Online-only.
the files were restored from backup and I set dropbox to maintain a local copy - i.e. not online-only.
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi cosmosnicolaou, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Just to clarify, is the Dropbox desktop application fully uninstalled from your machine? Have you followed these steps in the advanced reinstallation (without the reinstall portion) to remove it from your computer?
I followed the instructions to quit the app, and then remove it from the applications folder. I did not find the article you link to, but I do not have a .dropbox folder anymore, nor is there anything Library/Dropbox. Since the File Provider transition occurred, there is no ~/Dropbox folder. Rather my files are all in Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. I can access those files, but as I said in my original note I can't move anything out of it as macos thinks they are still managed by Dropbox.
- Jay
If you're seeing the Dropbox folder in CloudStorage, then it's possible that somehow, part of the app is still installed on your machine, which is preventing the deletion of the folder.
