delete Drop Box folder in Public..

[pvinis]

Hello.
I shared the Public folder and gave everyone read/write.
I deleted the drop box folder in there, but it keeps showing up..

Can I somehow delete it permanently?

thanks

 

[Mrguidogenio]

Try going to the Dropbox webpage and disableing it there.

 

[pvinis]

I'm not talking about the Dropbox app..
Go in your Public folder. In there, is a folder called drop box. delete it. It'll show up again after a few minutes.
Can I delete that one permanently?

 

[Mrguidogenio]

Again, go to the Dropbox webpage and delete that folder form there. That is what I meant.

 

[C64]

Again, go to the Dropbox webpage and delete that folder form there. That is what I meant.

Like he said, the ~/Public/Drop Box folder has nothing to do with the dropbox.com product.

Sorry, don't know a solution.

 

[N10248]

This might work, put it in terminal...

chflags hidden ~/Public/Drop Box

if that fails this should do it too...

chflags hidden /users/YOUrUSERNAME/Public/Drop Box

and hit enter,the folder will be there but hidden

put "nohidden" instead to bring it back

 

[johannnn]

No solution, but just to clarify for those people that think its part of dropbox.com.

This is an OS X feature, see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61234 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.6/en/fse71dd335.html etc

 

[pvinis]

This might work, put it in terminal...

chflags hidden ~/Public/Drop Box

if that fails this should do it too...

chflags hidden /users/YOUrUSERNAME/Public/Drop Box

and hit enter,the folder will be there but hidden

put "nohidden" instead to bring it back

nice.. hadn't thought of that. works for me, thanks!

nice avatar btw 😛

 

[umbilical]

same problem here! I can delete it and yes that appear in the first install of mountain even I dont dropbox at all...

I remove and appear again after restart

any solution?

 

[Mal]

same problem here! I can delete it and yes that appear in the first install of mountain even I dont dropbox at all...

I remove and appear again after restart

any solution?

Why do you want to delete it? It's used for network transfers if you don't want to give someone a username and password. It has no connection to the Dropbox application that many people use, and is a built-in OS X feature that is not designed to be disabled.

jW

 

[rolkabolka]

still no solution about deleting this drop box folder??? i dont want to hide it, and i dont need it at all... i tried to find all the plist files and change the strings but no luck... and i cant find anyone who could help me with that.. its so annoying that u cant do something like deleting a simple file/folder on a mac...
u cant hide the top bar or turn off the boot sound that simply that u just delete those annoying files... on a mac u need apps to do anything and just hope if it works...

 

[ronen]

Sorry to add an opposite question
I've deleted this folder ( Drop Box ) by mistake.
Also from Trash.
How can I make it re appear ?
Can I use Time Machime for one folder ?

Thanks