change dropbox's permissions?

[alexhardaker]

Hello, recently I changed my home directory folder name. I know the risks in doing this, but everything seems to be working fine except for Dropbox. It wants me to allow a change in permissions from my old home directory name, but due to it being different now it cannot do anything. This means that i no longer can use Dropbox. can anyone help me?

Thanks!

 

[simonsi]

Have you tried deleting and reinstalling the Dropbox app?

 

[alexhardaker]

Yes, with App cleaner. This is what baffles me.

 

[simonsi]

I wouldnt bother with App cleaner but if a drag to the trash, reboot then reinstall doesnt work try a repair permissions in Disk Utility. If still no good then Im out of ideas.

 

[alexhardaker]

Ok, I'll try doing trash delete. I've already tried disk permissions too

 

[NoBoMac]

There's also a Dropbox application in ~/Library/Application Support, so, might have to toast that one (on my setup that too is running in addition to stuff under /Applications/Dropbox.app).

But the big issue is probably want to clear out the old Dropbox settings, so from a Terminal:

cd
rm -rf .dropbox

 

[alexhardaker]

There's also a Dropbox application in ~/Library/Application Support, so, might have to toast that one (on my setup that too is running in addition to stuff under /Applications/Dropbox.app).

But the big issue is probably want to clear out the old Dropbox settings, so from a Terminal:

cd
rm -rf .dropbox

There's no folder in the application support folder linked to dropbox on mine. The terminal command worked, though! Thank you! Isn't there a way to delete the old settings without using terminal? I'm not the most advanced user and don't know Unix at all .