File hosting is a very necessary thing these days as frequently certain items need to be backed up or some files need to be shared. One of the best platforms to host files is Dropbox, this file hosting tool is very good in every way.
Dropbox offers its users a mobile application and also a compatible program for computers that have Windows or Mac. Later, we will explain how to uninstall the Dropbox program if you do not want it on your computer and what you have to do before uninstall the program.
- What should you do before uninstalling Dropbox from your PC?
- Unlink your account
- What steps to follow to uninstall the Dropbox App from your Windows 10 PC?
- Uninstall it on a Mac PC
- Remove Dropbox on Linux
What should you do before uninstalling Dropbox from your PC?
Before proceeding with the uninstallation of any program inside your computer, you need to do one specific thing. That specific thing you have to do is always unlink your account from all the services offered by the program.
This way, you won’t leave security slots in your Dropbox account where you always store your most important files. However, even if you don’t unlink your Dropbox account from the program you’re about to remove on your computer, what you can do is remove all the details of the application.
Even when you are going to delete a web browser, you need to completely delete each of the browsing data. In this way, you will prevent someone from stealing certain types of information from you because after uninstalling a program, there is almost always certain data that can be stolen.
Now, leaving aside all this type of thing, pay attention to the next instructions that we are going to give you so that you can see how to unlink your Dropbox account.
Unlink your account
In the Dropbox program it is necessary to log in to access each of the files that you have saved in your account. See how to unlink your account when removing the program:
- Start the Dropbox program once you access your team
- Click on your user’s photo
- Select the ‘Preferences’ option among those available
- Then press where it says ‘General’
- To finish, go to ‘Linked accounts’, click on ‘Unlink’ and confirm to the program that you want to unlink your Dropbox account
Once you use the entire process mentioned above to unlink your Dropbox account from the program, you are ready to delete the program. If you wish, you can see how files are shared in Dropbox with people who do not have an account on the platform .
By the way, if you want your Dropbox data to be well protected, what you can do is to see how to put passwords on the . By having your links to download files well protected with a password, you will be able to track each access .
What steps to follow to uninstall the Dropbox App from your Windows 10 PC?
If you want to uninstall the Dropbox program on your Windows 10 computer, you have to perform a couple of steps . Next, we are going to explain not only how to uninstall Dropbox from your Windows 10 computer:
- Position yourself on the virtual desktop of your computer
- Now, go to the taskbar and click on the icon corresponding to ‘Start’
- In the main menu, click the gear icon
- Within the Windows 10 system settings, press the ‘Applications’ section
- In the extensive list of programs, look for the one that says ‘Dropbox’
- When you locate it, click on it
- To finish, select the ‘Uninstall’ option and carry out everything the uninstall wizard tells you
This is how to uninstall Dropbox from a Windows 10 computer. Here we will not only show you how to uninstall Dropbox on Windows , we will also show you how to delete the program from a Mac and Linux computer.
Uninstall it on a Mac PC
Apple computers work with the Mac operating system which is very different from Windows in several aspects. To remove Dropbox from your Mac computer, you have to:
- Find the Dropbox program in your computer’s menu bar
- Sign out of Dropbox
- Then enter ‘Finder’
- Within Finder, select the option that says ‘Applications’
- Select the Dropbox app and you are going to drag it to the computer’s trash can
Remove Dropbox on Linux
In the case of Linux it is not as easy to remove the Dropbox application as it is in the case of Mac and Windows. On Linux, a wide variety of commands have to be used. Pay attention to everything you need to do:
- Go to the main menu of your computer and start the terminal
- Inside the terminal you are going to place the command ‘dropbox stop’ and press the ‘Enter’ key
- Then put the command ‘dropbox status # Should report “not running’
- Then put the command ‘rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist’ and press Enter
- To continue with everything, put the command ‘rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox’ and press Enter. When you reach this command you will be in the middle of the procedure
- The next command to put is ‘rm -rf ~/.dropbox*’ and hit Enter
- Next is ‘sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox’ and hit Enter
- The next thing is to place the command ‘sudo apt-get remove dropbox’ and press Enter
- To finish, put the command ‘rm /etc/apt/source.d/dropbox’ and press the Enter key
To remove all Dropbox components on your Linux computer, you need to put each of the commands given above. In case you have problems uninstalling the program, you can go to the website reserved for Dropbox technical support.
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