Mass deploying Dropbox question

[tlarkin]

Does anyone do this? What is your method? If you drop the app in /Applications it will still ask for admin credentials upon running. It payloads some info at first run into /Library I believe.

Thanks,
Tom

[cdenoia]

Hey tlarkin,
I was able to resolve the admin credential issue on Dropbox v.1.4.17 by deleting the following two files:

/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/DropboxHelperInstaller.tgz

/Library/DropboxHelperTools/DropboxHelperInstaller

Best,
Chris

[robo]

Alternately, make sure /Library/DropboxHelperTools/ is installed at the same time as the Dropbox.app bundle, and (from what I've seen so far) Dropbox won't need to ask users for admin creds.

[rob_potvin]

Yeah that worked fine! I just had to deploy it for some teachers!

Cheers

[psousa]

I got it figured out this afternoon. I was able to create a package by:

1) Starting the Composer snapshot
2) Installing Dropbox
3) Finishing Dropbox setup with my own personal Dropbox account information (and thus installing DropboxHelper)
4) "Unlinking" my Dropbox account.
5) Completing snapshot
6) Deleting the entirety of the "Users" directory so my personal files wouldn't be included in the package.

[ianmb]

I followed this advice and was able to sign in with my Dropbox account.

However when I click 'Open my Sync Folder', I get this:

Is there any way around this? I don't want users to have to enter the credentials for the Administrator account.

[Nix4Life]

Hey @ianmb

You did not mention what type of image you are using, but we deploy a monolithic image to faculty Macbook Pros. I just started seeing this today as we are replacing old hardware. I run rsync on some and migration assistant on others. I started to see this pop on those accounts that had used migration assistant. It seems there is a hidden file (.dropbox) in the user home folder that has this locked. you can view it by long listing with attributes: ls -la /Users/usernamehere, remove the .dropbox file and everything worked as usual.

hth

Larry

[ianmb]

Thanks @LSinNY I have this working now.