Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Actually, I take an even easier approach. I just go to the Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities and quit the processes related to Dropbox. Of course, I reinstalled Dropbox since I love Dropbox, and since I paid. The mouse approach didn't seem consistent, at least not in my case. Reg

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-09 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Dropbox is an absolute hastle to work with on the Mac, And it's a shame, but the dropbox people do not seem to be the most responsive when it comes to accessibility of the mac client. On Nov 8, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anybody tried deleting the DropBox

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-09 Thread Daniel K. Gartmann
Hi everyone, Thanks. The procedure to quit the process "DropBox" did the trick. I didn't know this. Now I managed to uninstall DB. Daniel On 09-11-2010 10:39, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! I can't get your trick to work, though. Moving straight left doesn't work, even when the mouse is on t

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I can't get your trick to work, though. Moving straight left doesn't work, even when the mouse is on the status bar. Regards, Nic GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster On Nov 9, 2010,

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-09 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Did you even get to the preferences menu at all? Remember, you need to rout your mouse to the Universal menu then move the mouse straight left. Then, when you hear that the mouse is over the drop Box menu, click the mouse using VO+shift+space. Now, arrow down to the preferences menu and then

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-08 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh really? I'll have to try that as when I hit return I hear system ui server has no windows. I'll have to try this. upon doing this there is no prefs window to speak of in the window chooser or in th eapplication chooser. it's as if the application disappears. S On Nov 8, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Ray

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-08 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, the thing of it is this. You need to get to the Drop Box preferences. To do this, you'll need to go in to your status menu, and then, use VO+simicolon, lock your Voice Over keys. Now, move your mouse in a straight line to the left while using F5 to tell you where your mouse is. When yo

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-08 Thread Sarah Alawami
The shortcut for quit process at least in snl is cmd option q. I forgot where I got that piece of info but there ya go. Good luck in uninstalling. S On Nov 8, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Hai Nguyen wrote: > Good afternoon Daniel, > In order to remove the dropbox application, you will need to first stop t

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-08 Thread Hai Nguyen
Good afternoon Daniel, In order to remove the dropbox application, you will need to first stop the running process, since Dropbox is a service that runs in the background. To do this, navigate to the utilities folder from the finder by pressing command+shift+u. Next, navigate to the activity mon