If it appears that your Dropbox App won’t open on Mac OS X, take a look at these installation instructions to see why you may not be seeing it.. More Mac OS X tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs7zxED4oCeqzw-GvoUk5PeTky9BCK6xv. Published by Anson Alexander from http://AnsonAlex.com.
I found myself needing to free up hard drive space on my iMac. As I looked to see where all my storage was being used, I discovered that my Dropbox Desktop App was using 95GB. Since I have Dropbox online, I didn’t need it to duplicate my same files on my hard drive. To remove Dropbox from a Mac, just follow the directions in the video.. My iMac only has 256GB of HD space so removing 95GB was very helpful. A lot of people may not realize that when you use the Dropbox Desktop App you are using valuable hard drive space and it may not be necessary.. I will show you how to close dropbox on your computer and then you can remove the Dropbox folder into trash.
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So, I was trying to figure out where all my hard drive space went. Dropbox is a brilliant tool, but sometimes you need to uninstall it from your Mac. In my case, I had no hard drive space. I had already moved my Dropbox onto an external hard drive, but it seemed like there was 30gb unaccounted for. Then I discovered the hidden Dropbox database files. These files were eating up all my local hard drive space. Have you ever noticed this? It sucks. On this particular computer I didn’t have a choice, I just had to remove Dropbox. Watch on to find out how to do it yourself and free up your local hard drive space! It’s not quite as easy as just deleting the Dropbox application, and you want to make sure you get all of it.. So how do you get rid of those pesky extra files and make sure Dropbox has been completely removed from your Mac? Watch on! Gear I use and recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/stillaslife. Where you can find me: My website: http://blog.stillaslife.com. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stillaslifematt/. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/darksbane. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillaslifematt/. Google+: https://plus.google.com/100008574741373244631
I’m having an issue…. it starts working but the icon up top goes away and it stops syncing. I’ve tried reaching out to Dropbox support but that’s like trying to get a call into the president. Horrible customer service. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?
Thanks man, it’s really helpful! My macbook only has 128GB of HD space, and it was almost full before I deleted the dropbox folder. Now my MAC is alive again haha:D
But one more problem, I couldn’t uninstall the dropbox app from the application folder. Is it necessary to uninstall it?
i think you should magnify the things on your screen so that viewers can see and understand what you say. i could not uninstall my dropbox because i did not get the step where i have to unlink the dropbox app before i proceed to the subsequent steps. i will be glad if you can do this video again and with the things on your screen magnified
чуваак,я так же как ты удалила эту…(будем без выражений). теперь она предлагает установить её ещё раз.То есть,я удалила,а она всё равно вылазит везде.Я не могу нормально на сайты переходить,вылазит что-то типа:ваш мак заражён(4) вирусами!Установите маккипер! Это я установлю клин май мак и всё уйдёт?вся реклама этого вируса?ОТВЕТЬ,ПЖ,А ТО Я СДОХНУ ОТ ЭТОЙ НАЗОЙЛИВОСТИ!
I have been trying to find a way to install Dropbox on my Mac and have so far failed. I have Yosemite 10.10.5 and am running the latest version of Google Chrome yet, each time (7 times so far) I try to upload the app it instantly fails. I don’t even get a bit of the progress bar. As soon as I double click on the icon, as per the instructions, it opens the progress bar and then says failed. Anyone with any clues as to what is going on?
Уменя браузер хром за спамил меня уведомлениями каждую минуту что срочно прибыл файл! и дергается все прыгает ждет что бы скачала закрываю она опять все вылизает уходила на несколько минут прихожу а у меня тут весь хром в этих уведомлениях! я не разбераюсь поэтому решила что раз система просит надо скачать. в итоге теперь не могу смотреть ничего постоянно уведомления из чата на иностранном языке выскакивают! уроды просто!
Thank you. Finally, someone who pointed out the hidden folder and the helper folder. Those were the ones that solved my issue (some files not syncing and no Dropbox shortcuts in Finder). If only Dropbox support would mention these things when asked. Good grief.
This super MAC system utility “macvo unique only” (Google it) is effective in my Mac. Everything is operating better now. Cleaning, Securing, Optimizing, anti virus, spyware, it has all characteristics you need for your Mac. I maintain my computer with the software every 15 days. By making use of the feature that removes digital “junk”, my laptop or computer works much faster.
Вот Malwarebytes Anti-malware, через эту программу удалил корни mackeeper из браузера safari, скачать можно здесь https://goo.gl/EWtcUq. Установите его, запустите и нажмите на Scan, после этого удалите весь списко зараженных файлов, и перезагрузите мак, всем удачи!
Помогите пожалуйста��удалила с помощью CleanMyMac X а файлы которые раскидал в системе я нашла с помощью Dr.Web и удалила но один файл не удаляться говорит что недостаточно прав для удаления.Что делать и опасен ли этот файл?
hi, thanks for your video.. but i am starting to F**KING HATE dropbox! they have NOOOOOOOO client support!! I am a paid client.. and I have no way to contacThese BLOODY assholes!!
So I’ll disturb you with my questions.. if you could be kind enough to answer them ill appreciate.. thank you:
question ONE-
SITUATION: 1° so i got a free account… jusTo see how DB works… let’Say it was: mytest@gmail.com I installed the desktop version of the app on my computer and signed in athe top of my screen it shows a little box..
2° then i decided to get a paid version which gave me more space but i used an other email: mynewaccount@gmail.com
3° now i wanted to sign out of the mytest@gmail.com but it’s impossible! When i click the box icon it gives me various options… one of them being quit dropbox but i have none which allows me to SIMPLY sign out of this mail & signin with my other mail: mynewaccount@gmail.com
Could you please tell me how i can sign out of it? I already tried uninstalling the desktop dropbox app & reintstalling it… but by magic it automatically opens up the mytest@gmail.com it’s DRIVING me NUTS!
question TWO- I wanTo use DB as an online hard-drive… i want my files to be there only so i can delete them from my computer this way i have more space on my lap top
How do i do it?? because they are synchronised
does that mean if i delete my file on my computer it will delete my file online too automatically?
question THREE- I dont want any of my files to be sycronisied automatically or just a few folders i select.. is that possible?
WOW!!! Finally, someone that simply states how to do this thing…. No fluff, no blah-blah-blah; I cannot express how enlightening it is to receive accurate laser how-to instructions. I am subscribing and ringing the bell. Many thanks-
I followed the instructions but when it came to the second set of files and did the /.dropbox, there was no folder called «dropbox». The top of my Finder window says «.dropbox», and it lists a bunch of stuff (Crashed, events, finder plugin, instance_db, instance1, I, logs, machine_storage, QuitReports (and a dozen more items under QuitReports, including «photo.dbx», so clearly there are some dropbox items in there). I would be loathe to just delete all the aforementioned without knowing whether or not they are dropbox elements.
This super MAC system utility “macvo unique only” (Google it) is indeed a life-saver for the any laptop or computer, not just the macbook. You can save a great deal of hard drive space by getting rid of acquired unnecessary data. recommend highly! Perfect characteristics of it are Cleaning, Securing, Optimizing your Mac, anti virus, spyware..and a lot of more.
So dropbox is in my Finder and the data that’s on it ads to my HD storage used space, correct? If I remove dropbox does this «free up» hd space, technically? I want to clone my drive and transfer the clone onto a new iMac but not sure if the dropbox content is being cloned, I don’t want it cloned. Will what you’ve showed solve this?
Thanks for the video but I followed the directions exactly and when I restarted my computer I still see the dropbox icon on the top right of my computer and all of my files in the cloud went to the trash.
The problem I’m facing is that the Dropbox icon located on my ‘Dock’ doesn’t open up the application when clicked on it. As you mentioned in the video, it can be accessed the way you showed it. But, that’s troublesome after having an icon on the dock which is supposed to open the app in one click. Is there any fix for this situation? Your help will be appreciated. Thanks.
I wanted to get my Mac repaired so I made a decision to go to a Mac store. Instead of repairing it manually, they recommended me to utilize this exceptional system utility for MAC “macvo unique only” (Google it). It was fantastic, fixed the majority of the software issues. A few of the program’s amazing functions include Cleaning, Securing, Optimizing your Mac, anti virus, and spyware.
How can I be sure I’m not going to lose my files when I remove Dropbox from my computer. It has been incorporating a number of folders that I never intended to be connected with Dropbox. I HATE Dropbox!
Hi Steve, I was having this issue on my storage-challenged MacBook Pro. I wanted to keep having access to both Dropbox and Google Drive, both for work and personal accounts. Here’s what I did: Assuming you have an SD slot; I got a Transcend 128GB SD Card placed into the slot; For MacBooks the «flush» cards are great ’cause they don’t stick out of the laptop, and are flush. I then choose the SD card as the sync location, creating a folder for each dropbox account, and each Drive account. This removes all that data storage from your primary Hard Drive, and places it on the SD Card, freeing-up your HD space. Further, I then dragged each folder icon over into the left Finder column, where an alas is then created, allowing easy access to any of my cloud services,, including iCloud, in ANY and EVERY Finder window. This works great! Once in a great while the SD fails to show, but always comes back after a restart.
А теперь скажу одну страшную вещь: macOS это не винда, в ней реестра нет. Поэтому никакие хвосты её работу замедлить не в состоянии. Но если кто-то готов с этим поспорить, значит он умней разработчиков мак-оси, которые в качестве официального способа удаления программ рекомендуют это делать путем простого перетаскивания её значка в корзину. Не зря в Windows существует специальный раздел в настройках «Установка и удаление программ», а в макинтошах такого нет. Он там не нужен, архитектура, принципы работы ОС совершенно разные.
FINALLY!! Thank you!! I was sitting with this for like 30 minutes. I saw my synced files in Finder but couldn’t find that damn icon everyone kep talking about. Thank you for actually showing where it is!! /N00b mac user
Спасибо, Бро) Удалял всеми способами тут описанными и удалил. Удалось избавиться от этого АдА. MacKeeper МРАЗИ полные, это точно. Поставил MacKeeper, далее удалил CleanMyMac(ом), следующий шаг, установил Malwarebytes Anti-Malware и почистил им.
![[Two Methods] How to Uninstall Dropbox on Mac?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3QShehcCOI0/hqdefault.jpg "[Two Methods] How to Uninstall Dropbox on Mac?")
I’m having an issue…. it starts working but the icon up top goes away and it stops syncing. I’ve tried reaching out to Dropbox support but that’s like trying to get a call into the president. Horrible customer service.
Any ideas on how to fix this issue?
Thanks man, it’s really helpful!
My macbook only has 128GB of HD space, and it was almost full before I deleted the dropbox folder. Now my MAC is alive again haha:D
But one more problem, I couldn’t uninstall the dropbox app from the application folder. Is it necessary to uninstall it?
i think you should magnify the things on your screen so that viewers can see and understand what you say. i could not uninstall my dropbox because i did not get the step where i have to unlink the dropbox app before i proceed to the subsequent steps. i will be glad if you can do this video again and with the things on your screen magnified
чуваак,я так же как ты удалила эту…(будем без выражений). теперь она предлагает установить её ещё раз.То есть,я удалила,а она всё равно вылазит везде.Я не могу нормально на сайты переходить,вылазит что-то типа:ваш мак заражён(4) вирусами!Установите маккипер!
Это я установлю клин май мак и всё уйдёт?вся реклама этого вируса?ОТВЕТЬ,ПЖ,А ТО Я СДОХНУ ОТ ЭТОЙ НАЗОЙЛИВОСТИ!
I have been trying to find a way to install Dropbox on my Mac and have so far failed. I have Yosemite 10.10.5 and am running the latest version of Google Chrome yet, each time (7 times so far) I try to upload the app it instantly fails. I don’t even get a bit of the progress bar. As soon as I double click on the icon, as per the instructions, it opens the progress bar and then says failed. Anyone with any clues as to what is going on?
Уменя браузер хром за спамил меня уведомлениями каждую минуту что срочно прибыл файл! и дергается все прыгает ждет что бы скачала закрываю она опять все вылизает уходила на несколько минут прихожу а у меня тут весь хром в этих уведомлениях! я не разбераюсь поэтому решила что раз система просит надо скачать. в итоге теперь не могу смотреть ничего постоянно уведомления из чата на иностранном языке выскакивают! уроды просто!
Thank you. Finally, someone who pointed out the hidden folder and the helper folder. Those were the ones that solved my issue (some files not syncing and no Dropbox shortcuts in Finder). If only Dropbox support would mention these things when asked. Good grief.
This super MAC system utility “macvo unique only” (Google it) is effective in my Mac. Everything is operating better now. Cleaning, Securing, Optimizing, anti virus, spyware, it has all characteristics you need for your Mac. I maintain my computer with the software every 15 days. By making use of the feature that removes digital “junk”, my laptop or computer works much faster.
Вот Malwarebytes Anti-malware, через эту программу удалил корни mackeeper из браузера safari, скачать можно здесь https://goo.gl/EWtcUq. Установите его, запустите и нажмите на Scan, после этого удалите весь списко зараженных файлов, и перезагрузите мак, всем удачи!
Помогите пожалуйста��удалила с помощью CleanMyMac X а файлы которые раскидал в системе я нашла с помощью Dr.Web и удалила но один файл не удаляться говорит что недостаточно прав для удаления.Что делать и опасен ли этот файл?
hi, thanks for your video..
but i am starting to F**KING HATE dropbox!
they have NOOOOOOOO client support!!
I am a paid client.. and I have no way to contacThese BLOODY assholes!!
So I’ll disturb you with my questions.. if you could be kind enough to answer them ill appreciate.. thank you:
question ONE-
SITUATION:
1° so i got a free account… jusTo see how DB works… let’Say it was: mytest@gmail.com
I installed the desktop version of the app on my computer and signed in
athe top of my screen it shows a little box..
2° then i decided to get a paid version which gave me more space but i used an other email: mynewaccount@gmail.com
3° now i wanted to sign out of the mytest@gmail.com but it’s impossible!
When i click the box icon it gives me various options… one of them being quit dropbox but i have none which allows me to SIMPLY sign out of this mail & signin with my other mail: mynewaccount@gmail.com
Could you please tell me how i can sign out of it?
I already tried uninstalling the desktop dropbox app & reintstalling it… but by magic it automatically opens up the mytest@gmail.com
it’s DRIVING me NUTS!
question TWO-
I wanTo use DB as an online hard-drive… i want my files to be there only so i can delete them from my computer this way i have more space on my lap top
How do i do it??
because they are synchronised
does that mean if i delete my file on my computer it will delete my file online too automatically?
question THREE-
I dont want any of my files to be sycronisied automatically or just a few folders i select.. is that possible?
WOW!!! Finally, someone that simply states how to do this thing…. No fluff, no blah-blah-blah; I cannot express how enlightening it is to receive accurate laser how-to instructions. I am subscribing and ringing the bell. Many thanks-
I followed the instructions but when it came to the second set of files and did the /.dropbox, there was no folder called «dropbox». The top of my Finder window says «.dropbox», and it lists a bunch of stuff (Crashed, events, finder plugin, instance_db, instance1, I, logs, machine_storage, QuitReports (and a dozen more items under QuitReports, including «photo.dbx», so clearly there are some dropbox items in there). I would be loathe to just delete all the aforementioned without knowing whether or not they are dropbox elements.
This super MAC system utility “macvo unique only” (Google it) is indeed a life-saver for the any laptop or computer, not just the macbook. You can save a great deal of hard drive space by getting rid of acquired unnecessary data. recommend highly! Perfect characteristics of it are Cleaning, Securing, Optimizing your Mac, anti virus, spyware..and a lot of more.
So dropbox is in my Finder and the data that’s on it ads to my HD storage used space, correct? If I remove dropbox does this «free up» hd space, technically? I want to clone my drive and transfer the clone onto a new iMac but not sure if the dropbox content is being cloned, I don’t want it cloned. Will what you’ve showed solve this?
Thanks for the video but I followed the directions exactly and when I restarted my computer I still see the dropbox icon on the top right of my computer and all of my files in the cloud went to the trash.
The problem I’m facing is that the Dropbox icon located on my ‘Dock’ doesn’t open up the application when clicked on it. As you mentioned in the video, it can be accessed the way you showed it. But, that’s troublesome after having an icon on the dock which is supposed to open the app in one click. Is there any fix for this situation? Your help will be appreciated. Thanks.
I wanted to get my Mac repaired so I made a decision to go to a Mac store. Instead of repairing it manually, they recommended me to utilize this exceptional system utility for MAC “macvo unique only” (Google it). It was fantastic, fixed the majority of the software issues. A few of the program’s amazing functions include Cleaning, Securing, Optimizing your Mac, anti virus, and spyware.
How can I be sure I’m not going to lose my files when I remove Dropbox from my computer. It has been incorporating a number of folders that I never intended to be connected with Dropbox. I HATE Dropbox!
Hi Steve, I was having this issue on my storage-challenged MacBook Pro.
I wanted to keep having access to both Dropbox and Google Drive, both for work and personal accounts. Here’s what I did:
Assuming you have an SD slot; I got a Transcend 128GB SD Card placed into the slot; For MacBooks the «flush» cards are great ’cause they don’t stick out of the laptop, and are flush.
I then choose the SD card as the sync location, creating a folder for each dropbox account, and each Drive account. This removes all that data storage from your primary Hard Drive, and places it on the SD Card, freeing-up your HD space.
Further, I then dragged each folder icon over into the left Finder column, where an alas is then created, allowing easy access to any of my cloud services,, including iCloud, in ANY and EVERY Finder window.
This works great!
Once in a great while the SD fails to show, but always comes back after a restart.
А теперь скажу одну страшную вещь: macOS это не винда, в ней реестра нет. Поэтому никакие хвосты её работу замедлить не в состоянии. Но если кто-то готов с этим поспорить, значит он умней разработчиков мак-оси, которые в качестве официального способа удаления программ рекомендуют это делать путем простого перетаскивания её значка в корзину. Не зря в Windows существует специальный раздел в настройках «Установка и удаление программ», а в макинтошах такого нет. Он там не нужен, архитектура, принципы работы ОС совершенно разные.
FINALLY!! Thank you!! I was sitting with this for like 30 minutes. I saw my synced files in Finder but couldn’t find that damn icon everyone kep talking about. Thank you for actually showing where it is!! /N00b mac user
Спасибо, Бро) Удалял всеми способами тут описанными и удалил. Удалось избавиться от этого АдА. MacKeeper МРАЗИ полные, это точно. Поставил MacKeeper, далее удалил CleanMyMac(ом), следующий шаг, установил Malwarebytes Anti-Malware и почистил им.