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cosmosnicolaou
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
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 support had me remove dropbox. I've verified that the Dropbox file provider is no longer present, Dropbox not running etc. I can access my files fine in the CloudStorage directory but I'm taking the opportunity to tidy things but macos still thinks that these files are managed by Dropbox. For example, I can't move the Dropbox directory out of CloudStorage, doing so using the command line results in a permission denied error. Moving a directory results in a timeout error on the command line, or a 'waiting to download' error in the finder. This makes me believe that macos still thinks that Dropbox is managing this folder even though I've removed it. Does anyone know how to get macos to 'forget' that Dropbox was every managing this directory or that Dropbox was ever installed? Thanks!
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