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High CPU usage even when not syncing or indexing
For the past couple of days, Dropbox has been consistently using around 30% of my CPU, when not syncing or indexing anything (i.e., the menu bar drop down says `Up to date`). Any idea why this might ...
Calvin2DBX
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi megawhite,
Glad to help you here in the Community.
You'll see I moved your post to a larger thread where you can see what's been tried in similar circumstances.
Be sure to rule out everything here, first: https://help.dropbox.com/installs/high-cpu-usage
Let me know what you find!
This thread:
How is it solved?
In the penultimate message before Calvin2DBX unhelpfully locked the thread and set it to solved(??!!)
"Everything that is mentioned in that article is not the case for me (and most others). Also, by the answers just in this thread all off the discussed "problems" can be outruled."
Refers to this post which Calvin2DBX provided for a second time in the last post:
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/high-cpu-usage
PROBLEM IS NOT SOLVED.
NEEDS SOMEONE WITH SOME BRAIN TO FIX YOUR SOFTWARE.
WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?
