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mdubois
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

Dropbox caches my system password, how do I clear it?

I installed dropbox a while ago and foolishly gave it the system password when it asked.   Now I would like to clear it out, but I don't know how. I have uninstalled dropbox, and removed every ...
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mdubois
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I have found the thing that was acting with admin rights without my permission in the system Library dropbox helper tools and that got rid of the issue with dropbox adding itself improperly to Accessibility settings without pemission on reinstall.

However, I am still missing something somewhere. Where does dropbox store the token or login info for the account on the device? Deleting the app and all the preferences didn't do that and it doesn't seem to be in the keychain.

I'm looking for everything I need to delete to have Dropbox be like a clean install when I remove and reinstall it.

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Walter
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6 months ago

In that case, you can follow the steps outlined here.

 

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