[Package Issue]: Dropbox.Dropbox user scope missing

[R-Adrian]

Please confirm these before moving forward

• I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Dropbox can also be installed as a limited user scope application, without any administrative rights but the WinGet manifest only has machine scope specified.

related pull request:
#151996
(most recent change for Dropbox)

Steps to reproduce

- either get a fresh system (or virtual machine) or uninstall any existing machine-scope versions of Dropbox. Make sure to also purge staged versions of Dropbox from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps edit: the user scope prompt can be seen even on a system where the machine-scope is already installed. /edit

• download the offline installer from the winget manifest
• run it manually (in normal interactive mode), when it asks for administrative rights elevation DO NOT allow it to run as administrator.
• Dropbox will now ask to install as limited user.

Actual behavior

WinGet only has machine scope specified in the manifest

Expected behavior

Dropbox can be installed / upgraded either as user scope or machine scope

Environment

(environment not really relevant here)

Screenshots and Logs

[PckgrTom]

Hello,

Is this able to install without Admin privileges?

[R-Adrian]

It works and is installing in user profile context.

On this PC i think it works even better than machine scope, because it doesn't install the DbxSvc service that wants to run as System account all the time even when the Dropbox app is not running.

The registry settings are placed under HKCU instead of HKLM.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Dropbox

Also, i set my Dropbox to start with low cpu priority too.

cd "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin"
start "Dropbox" /b /low ".\Dropbox.exe"