I want to get rid of Dropbox entirely from my Mac. I'm not a very advanced Mac user, and ordinarily apps can be uninstalled with ease, but not with Dropbox. I followed all the procedures according to this link but when I try to drag the Dropbox icon from the list of apps in Finder, a message comes up stating "The item 'Dropbox' cannot be moved to the Trash because some of its plugins are in use." I have no idea what this means - everything else was deleted successfully except this and the icon in Launchpad. Any assistance would be greatly provided.
* I would also uncheck "Start Dropbox on system startup", doing this will allow you to log out and back in if the initial uninstall attempt above doesn't work. After the log out and in, you should be able to remove the app with no issue.
I cannot delete dropbox.app, despite performing all these tasks. It is still causing my iMac to crash. Do you have any other suggestions to get rid the message that refers to plugins. Why does Dropbox have such strong tentacles on my machine. Maybe I need to find another cloud company, as I wonder the difficulty in deleting the program is a symptom of spying on me, liked an indestructible virus.
Robert, it worked and I was having plug-in issues as well. Unchecking Finder integration did the trick. I am not sure why Dropbox feels that this crucial information should be outsourced to a super user community member to provide and its own instructions are less than complete. I have finally become a paid user and now am having doubts if this is how it expects to support its customers. Thank you for posting this.
Nor, I would judge, is their documentation "less than complete" just because a vanishingly tiny number of users occasionally experience a little difficulty and need a helping hand. In point of fact, I can't replicate the uninstall issue you've experienced on any of my personal Mac systems. And, frankly, my inclination at this point is, it's a rare Finder issue rather than a Dropbox one, since it's Finder which is failing to unload the plugins as it should.
To clarify my outsource comment, why is this answered by a community user, and not part of the common documentation. Mac is a supported platform, and it may well likely be a Finder issue. Why is the fix to this answered by an external user (you, a great response) but not in the rest of the searches on their help.
What if there was no post by you, I would be dead in the water. That was what I meant by outsourced. Not that they are responsible for the problem but given its a problem, why is the resolution buried in one community side.
We are still running Alteryx Designer 10.5 and I installed the predictive analytics tools from the downloads, but I am now getting a large number of error messages on every startup of Alteryx. I think it is because the install of the predictive analytics was for v11. Is there any way to uninstall the predictive analytics tools without doing a full Alteryx uninstall?
This would've helped before I installed the wrong version, but now I am looking for guidance on how to uninstall the version I have installed so that I can install the correct version (that works on 10.5)
1# Every time I attempt to use the Add/Remove feature it presents the following error: "Windows cannot find 'C:\Program FIles\PlasticSCM5\uninstall.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." (In fact, at the moment it is stuck on that error and the only way I can fix it is by restarting my computer)
2# Plastic is constantly running in the background in the form of three processes on my Task Manager: One is Plastic SCM (taking up 12.1 MB), the second is Plastic SCM (named the same as the other, and taking up 3.6 MB), and the third is plasticd (taking up 38.1 MB). It seems that these processes running in the background prevent me from deleting Plastic's main folder on my computer, and no matter how many times I "end task them", they keep coming back up.
3# Is that Plastic's own uninstall application is not appearing to me as an application at all but a .dat file which seemingly cannot be read or launched by anything on my computer. (and yes, I have supposedly installed the shell executable or whatever it is called that comes optional with Plastic).
I have attempted to look up to see if others have had similar issues with the uninstall process, and I did come across one forum post in which an administrator by the name of Manu recommended installing Plastic again (presumably replacing the previous install) and then attempting to uninstall using the uninstall.exe, but as I stated, that's not working for me at all.
Next, launch an installer application for Plastic SCM and re-install Plastic SCM on your computer (making sure to tell it yes when it asks if you want to "replace your existing installed version of Plastic"). Then, the last part, do not agree to restart you computer after install. Instead, go immediately to your Plastic SCM's main folder again (where you installed it to), and you should now see the uninstaller as an application you can actually launch (or at least I did, and I have tested this method twice).
After it (hopefully) completes the uninstall process. Then you can agree to restart your computer, but only when promoted by the uninstaller application at finish. After that, there should be more no more Plastic processes running in the background of your task manager, and Plastic SCM should no longer appear on your computer as either an application to launch nor a program to uninstall in Add/Remove.
Probably the PlasticSCM5 folder will still be somewhere on your computer, but you can just find that in your C:\Program FIles\PlasticSCM5 (or wherever you installed it) and you should be able to safely delete that folder for extra measure.
Hi Folks,
I am having problem with running 3D viewer on Fiji and after reading some of the topics in the Forum related to this problem, I have decided to uninstall Fiji from my laptop. Can anyone tell me the steps to take to perform this task (uninstall fiji)? I am running windows 10.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for responding and the reference. I need to provide additional information. At the moment, one of the host computers associated with my microscope has ImageJ installed. This is the computer from our camera manufacturer yet, I do not know whom setup ImageJ. I noticed the installation was in this directory yet, needed to update from 1.48v. This was the result of the migration from http: to https: so, I have overcome this issue by being referred to this thread:
probably this is a stupid question, but I am quite new in the Labview world and I have the following problem: I have installed on the same computer two version of Labview (2012 and 2012). Now, I want to uninstall of the two, but in Windows Control Panel there is just one "National Instrument-Software" income. If I proceed with this, will I uninstall both versions or will it ask me which of the two I want to delete?
probably this is a stupid question, but I am quite new in the Labview world and I have the following problem: I have installed on the same computer two version of Labview (2012 and 2012).
Double click the single entry for National Instruments and all the NI istalled software is listed (See screenshot attached) The versions are clearly identified and you can then pick which version to uninstall.
I'm experiencing the same problem, I have multiple version of Labview installed and would like to remove all except Labview 2012. However, the uninstall process hangs every time in the uninstall of Labview 7.1. This program, MSIBlast.exe, you can as well do with a PXI-1052 with PXI-8187 controller?
"To remove Evernote completely from your system, via the Finder, drag Evernote from the Applications folder to your trash. Also, in your User Account>Library>Applications Support, drag the Evernote folder to the trash. Finally, in Your User Account>Library>Preferences folder, trash the com.evernote.Evernote.plist file."
Hmm...that's not what many other forums have said. People have needed to re-install Evernote in their attempts to totally remove ALL related files in ALL directories. Trial users have reported some VERY bad experiences trying to REMOVE Evernote.
Ironically, since Evernote Customer Support ignores and is not available to free users, I have upgraded to Evernote Premium just to get the complete instructions to REMOVE it. We consider this 5 bucks well spent. (provided their "Premium Customer Support" can successfully address this issue within 30 days!)
I installed evernote on my macbook air in 2014. I found the program awful. It is an intrusive program which will insert itself everywhere on your machine. it also doesn't work all that well. I saved receipts to it for reimbursement and then could not print them. I tried to unsucessfully remove the program from my computer because I didn't really like it. . It is totally impossible. Now, everytime I go to print a return label from Amazon, some Evernote thing comes up and totally crashes the process. Nothing prints, it shuts down my browser. It is the hugest pain in the buttt ever. I am going to have to get a new computer to be able to print a frigging return label from Amazon or wipe this disc and start again. What a mess.
To prevent any issue during the uninstallation process, you should first quit Evernote. Then remove Evernote into the Trash. And the most important part is that you have to remove Evernote's support files as well. They are stored in the following locations:
Open it, drag the EN program icon to the AppCleaner window. A list with all program components will show, some preselected. For a full uninstall make sure to check all, scroll down the list and set the checkmarks.
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