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afrey25
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

High CPU Usage after updating MacBook Pro to MacOS Monterey (12.3)

I installed the latest MacOS update (Monterey 12.3) on my MacBook pro last night and now Dropbox is almost continuously syncing files and sucking my CPU usage. Fans are running almost constantly, and...
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  • BenDBX's avatar
    BenDBX
    2 years ago

    Hi Everybody,

     

    I spoke with our engineering team to confirm that this issue was resolved. I'm following up with this thread to confirm that high CPU usage is no longer a problem for any users. Ensure your MacOS and Dropbox are up to date, and please let us know if this is still affecting you. Thanks!

     

    Regards,

    Ben

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JayhawkRaven
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

I am having trouble with my iMac slowing down to the point of being unusable.  Seemingly without warning I will get beachballs while I am working. Sometimes I can switch to another app which seems to work fine, and sometimes it seems to drag down the entire system. 

 

According to Activity monitor, the CPU usage is frequently very high, and frequently up near or even over 100%.  

 

I boot from an external SSD.  I have my dropbox files stored on another external SSD.  That SSD is large enough to hold all of my dropbox files.  I have Smart Sync turned on.  I tried to turn it off but a kernel panic hit when I started to do that.  Maybe it was unrelated, I don't know.  Is there a downside to turning Smart Sync off?

 

Any other ideas?

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