#1 2019-12-04 03:14:46

schwim

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Best way to uninstall dropbox that was installed via bl-welcome?

Heya folks!

Gonna move my stuff over to the mega app and would like to fully remove the dropbox client that was installed via the welcome script.

Thanks for your time!

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Re: Best way to uninstall dropbox that was installed via bl-welcome?

uninstall-dropbox

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schwim

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Re: Best way to uninstall dropbox that was installed via bl-welcome?

I did find that Damo, which fails on the very first step:

schwim@schwim-vm-bls:~$ dropbox stop
bash: dropbox: command not found

I figured because it was installed via the welcome script there must have been some changes made to the default install.

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Re: Best way to uninstall dropbox that was installed via bl-welcome?

I did find that Damo, which fails on the very first step:

schwim@schwim-vm-bls:~$ dropbox stop
bash: dropbox: command not found

I figured because it was installed via the welcome script there must have been some changes made to the default install.

The command for Dropbox is dropbox.py [args], which by default should be in $HOME/bin

$ dropbox.py --help
Dropbox command-line interface

commands:

Note: use dropbox help <command> to view usage for a specific command.

 status       get current status of the dropboxd
 throttle     set bandwidth limits for Dropbox
 help         provide help
 stop         stop dropboxd
 running      return whether dropbox is running
 start        start dropboxd
 filestatus   get current sync status of one or more files
 ls           list directory contents with current sync status
 autostart    automatically start dropbox at login
 exclude      ignores/excludes a directory from syncing
 lansync      enables or disables LAN sync
 sharelink    get a shared link for a file in your dropbox
 proxy        set proxy settings for Dropbox

It looks like there is a typo there - it should say "dropbox.py help <command>"

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Re: Best way to uninstall dropbox that was installed via bl-welcome?

Slightly OT/
It would be possible for the BL Dropbox installer to install ~/bin/dropbox.py as ~/bin/dropbox instead. Would that be preferable?

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