How to unlink dropbox from my MAC

Question

I recently acquired a new MacBook air and transferred data over from my old Mac.  In the process, Dropbox came too...

Now, I can't save any files to my computer/desktop - they all have to be saved to dropbox; and at the same time, I can't put anything in my trash - everything I want to delete has to 'go' immediately.

It seems that dropbox has somehow taken control of my computer!  I'd like to know how I can disconnect dropbox so that I can put files there when I want to, but only when I want to - not as a default.

Any help grateful received!.

DavidW123 · Accepted Answer

Hi Walter - thanks for your reply.  I tried what you suggested, but no joy.

Eventually, I realised that somehow in transferring over data from my old Mac, Dropbox had got garbled and no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the correct pathway for saving files to the computer rather than the cloud, and that the trash was never going to work..

So - I just reset the Mac and started from scratch: I reinstalled Dropbox and now things seems to work OK.

A rather drastic solution, but it was clear this was the only way I was going to get it to work.

Thanks again,