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#DROPBOX MAC SOFTWARE HOW TO#

Don’t want to pay through the nose? Well, Apple provides the feature of “automatically optimizing your hard disk space” -which we all know it’s not exactly predictable. On a purely speculative basis, I agree with I think that Apple never bothered to allow external iCloud storage in order to sell more expensive internal storage. This is the restriction I was mentioning, it seems that the newer system-level frameworks provided by Apple do not support external storage. If they are now requiring the same of Dropbox that seems to reinforce my theory. I also backup the Dropbox Folder (and new Gdrive folder) with Carbon Copy Capture and appears to work fine. Nothing in the above FAQ that I see mentions TimeMachine backups/restores won’t work anymore. I’ve done some testing with restore with TimeMachine and don’t notice any problems–does not mean of course there are not any problems. Check this for yourself by looking at the Dropbox folder in a Terminal.

#DROPBOX MAC SOFTWARE HOW TO#

I’ve set all the folders to be “offline”, they all appear as accessible files in ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/.Ī “package” is simply a macOS Finder thing about how to display folders and files that do exist but are displayed in the Finder app as a “file”. I can’t find a reference link for that understanding, so take it with a grain of salt. If you find this article helpful, don't forget to share it with others.My understanding is that Dropbox changing, as are other Cloud sync services (Google Gdrive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc), to conform to Apple’s instructions/standard/wish/?. Your files in Dropbox won't be deleted, and you can still get them when you sign in to your Dropbox account.

Hopefully, you have successfully uninstalled Dropbox on your Mac by using one of the two ways above.

Find the folder named DropboxHelperTools, drag it to Trash, and empty your Trash.

Paste /Library in the search box and press the Return key.

Press Shift + Command + G keys on a Finder window to open the Go to Folder window.

Go over the following paths to find and remove all the related files of Dropbox.

Click the Go menu in Finder and choose Go to Folder.

You also need to delete related files it left on your Mac.

Locate Dropbox and drag it to the Trash.ĭragging Dropbox to the Trash won't completely delete it from your Mac.

Find all the processes of Dropbox and stop them.

To avoid failure to uninstall Dropbox, use Activity Monitor to quit all Dropbox processes.

Click Preferences > Account > Sign out.

Click the Dropbox icon in the menu bar.

But please note that the process is time-consuming, and you may not be able to delete all files related to Dropbox.

You can also delete Dropbox from your Mac manually. To remove the Dropbox folder, press Command + Shift + H keys to open the Home folder and drag the Dropbox folder to the Trash. Deleting Dropbox on your Mac won't remove your Dropbox account or the Dropbox folder on your hard drive.