How to Delete Dropbox under CloudStorage After Removing Dropbox

[sclough]

With the current DB changes I decided to move to another solution and uninstalled DB. However after removing DB, I cannot remove the Dropbox folder under CloudStorage. There is no option to move to trash. How can I remove this folder?

 

[gilby101]

How did you uninstall?

Have you tried deleting the folder from Terminal as root user? I ask because the folder has an ACL which includes everyone:group deny delete.

ls -lah@eO ~/Library/CloudStorage
.....
drwx------@  17 gilby  staff  -       544B 23 Feb 16:51 Dropbox
    com.apple.FinderInfo      32B
    com.apple.file-provider-domain-id      72B
    com.dropbox.attrs      26B
    com.dropbox.fp_hydration_policy       1B
    com.dropbox.internal       0B
 0: group:everyone deny delete
 1: group:everyone deny writeextattr

I should add that I have not seen any instructions on the web (including Dropbox) about how to fully uninstall Dropbox when it is using the "file provider" framework with your files stored in ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.

 

[sclough]

I uninstalled using AppCleaner which removed pretty much everything. Then I removed the remaining bits left in ~/Library. Then I removed what Dropbox leaves in /Library. And finally, I solved this as you suggested using the command line with sudo rm -fr ./Dropbox.

I would have thought there was a way to do this in Finder but perhaps it doesn't allow a "sudo" style delete.