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I uninstalled Dropbox but keep getting this annoying notification on my mac that Dropbox is adding items that can run in the background even though the app is deleted and it is disabled in the appropriate setting. How do I get this to end once and for all? Thanks!
I might have discovered a possible fix. Deleted the files as instructed in screenshot, emptied trash then restarted my mac and haven't had the problem or that pesky notification yet. 🤞
I think this is a bug in Apple Ventura OS actually as I'm getting it for lots of different apps at the moment. It started when I updated to 13.1
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Having the same issue after I tried to cut down on the number of background apps on my Mac running Ventura 13.1. But even turning them back on still getting 2-3x messages on startup.
In trying to get rid of some Dropbox error messages on startup (see below), I managed to mess up my dropbox setup and now it won't start. See error log even more below. I reinstalled app from download.
Any help appreciated.
John
Update - I did do an advanced reinstall and got dropbox working again. Same annoying Background Items Added messages but at least it's working.
John
It really sucks lol.
Confirmed: this is known OS Ventura issue
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254341579
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I might have discovered a possible fix. Deleted the files as instructed in screenshot, emptied trash then restarted my mac and haven't had the problem or that pesky notification yet. 🤞
I had this problem and a person on Apple Senior support helped me with it!
Write this into spotlight search:
~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then you simply delete the files that cause the notification issue.
You can alternatively install a cleaning program such as CleanMyMacX or Avast cleanup.
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