SIlent Removal of Dropbox

[Kiadose]

Hello, I was looking for a way to silently remove dropbox. I need to do this for a company. I am trying to use DropboxUninstaller.exe /s in SCCM but it's not working. It pops up a box asking if you want to uninstall. I tried looking through the forms but it seems this question has been totally ignored by Dropbox every time it is asked. They really don't like to support anything that would be useful admin wise. In fact pretty much everything I look for on here goes ignored. I am sure this will too but worth a shot. Maybe years later they will have figured out how to click the reply button. For reference, this was posted in 2015 and has been ignored by Dropbox staff since https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/Silent-Uninstall-of-Dropbox-3-8-5/td-p/... Idk how they get customers when their support does not exist. I find nothing but ignored posts whenever I search for anything here.

[Jay]

Hi again, I don’t feel there’s a need to repeat your previous statement that no one replies to comments, especially since the threads you mentioned are 3 years old and out of date, and that I immediately replied to your other post yesterday.

Regarding your query, I’m not aware of any silent uninstall option, so I’ll forward the suggestion to our dev team for their consideration in future.

[Kiadose]

I only repeat myself becuase 5/5 searches I have done have yielded year old questions with zero response or resolution. That is a 100% failure to me. Obviously you've gotten better at responding but it is frustrating. 3 of the issues I solved myself and I think I might have something for this so I am trying to improve where ever I find something I just want to stop hitting dead ends with everything that has to do with Dropbox. 

Anyway here is a batch file I am playing with. It will look at every users app folder and run the unintsall if the dropbox folder is found it assumes a standard install of course. I will post something back if I get this working. Since it is batch running in SCCM it should be able to be made silent too so it might solve an unanswered question at least.

Batch - Loop through folders and run command

@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions

    for /F "tokens=2,*" %%a in ('reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList" /v ProfileImagePath /s ^| find "REG_EXPAND_SZ" ^| findstr /v /i "\\windows\\ \\system32\\"') do (
        call :doUninstall "%%b"
    )

    endlocal
    exit /b

:doUninstall
    set "_uninstaller=%~1\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\DropboxUninstaller.exe"
    if not exist "%_uninstaller%" goto :EOF
    start "" /wait "%_uninstaller%" /S
    goto :EOF

[Kiadose]

I came up with a solution. I wrote a 588 line batch file but when I try to upload it I get an unknown error has occurred. Jay can I send it to you and have you upload it here?

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[Kiadose]

Jay, or any other admin on this site. When you have a chance please help me out with the upload issue so I can post this script in one piece and it will be easier for your customers and others to use.

[Jay]

We can’t upload specific files to the forum, only images. For a long forum post like that it most likely wouldn’t work even for me.

If you upload the file to your Dropbox account and create a shared link, you can post the link here for others to use.