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Mac slows down on starting with paid Dropbox.
I have to wait on my macs (27" and two 13" Macbook, three and four years old, newest systems) almost 10 to 15 Minutes until i can use other apps, as dropbox syncs so slow the list. After list is load...
Does your computer have an HDD or SSD? If you have an HDD you may choose option not to have Dropbox run at startup. This will help your computer boot. Once it boots you could manually start Dropbox. However, this is the same issue I had and the only solution that seems to be working is upgrading to a decent SSD. I choose to upgrade the entire laptop to Apples latest 15 mbp. That worked like a charm. The software is using lots of hard drive resources these days and can truly benefit from SSD.
The trick of starting dropbox in Terminal (or *.command script) seems to solve the freezing issue at dropbox startup due to cpu hog.
Problem was happening regularly, every month or so on 2019 macmini with 1TB ssd and 64gig ram. Sometimes dropbox failed to start at all. Not sure if issue returns everytime dropbox is updated. On each launch Was getting warning "Dropbox was downloaded from internet". Maybe fixed by: sudo chown -R $USER /Applications/Dropbox*
Also, When started from Terminal it does not seem freeze up the mac, so possible work-around.
1. Create file named /Users/Shared/DropboxDelayedStart.command as follows...
In TextEdit -> Make plain text, (or nano) paste in following and save-as /Users/Shared/DropboxDelayedStart.command
sleep 20
echo "Starting Dropbox after 20 second delay"
sleep 5
/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox
2. In Terminal:
chmod a+x/Users/Shared/DropboxDelayedStart.command
3 Quit dropbox, then double-click /Users/Shared/DropboxDelayedStart.command and it should start dropbox after 20-sec delay. If not double-check steps above.
4. Once you know Delayed start works, then In SysPrefs: Users: Login Items, remove Dropbox and add /Users/Shared/DropboxDelayedStart.command
- I have this problem and have two unusable iMacs - one with memory recently upgraded to 32gb. My laptops are fine my desktops are not and I am not impressed. I don't want to have to use a small screen in the office. I think replacing Dropbox might be the answer.
