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cosmosnicolaou
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

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...
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Jay
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3 years ago

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. 

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cosmosnicolaou
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Yes, but what is that part that's still installed?

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