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tomgrin74's avatar
tomgrin74
Helpful | Level 6
10 months ago

Dropbox vs. Ventura nightmare (191.4.4995)

Welp, week two and the "new" Dropbox update continues to reek havoc on my iMac. I've read a lot of community threads, and can already weed out that this is not a "beta" version. I've installed DB version 191.4.4995, on Ventura 13.6.1, and now I've updated to Ventura 13.6.4. After countless system restarts, the Dropbox icon in the top menu bar is constantly grayed out while the Sync History tab says "Starting." Hours go by and nothing happens. Meanwhile, I can not access any files in my Finder that are from DB folders. 

 

Please tell me there's a fix for this. I went a long round with support last week, and they instructed me to do a Terminal command process to look for "Symlinks" (which I said I would not do because it did not make sense with what I was experiencing), and then out of nowhere, all of a sudden, DB just started working. That lasted for the afternoon but the next day on restart it was back to the beginning again. 

 

This has kept my iMac's fan constantly spinning up and CPU usage spiking. "fileproviderd" has constantly been over 100% of CPU usage. And "rtcreportingd" has sometimes jumped way up, other times been around 17% of CPU usage.  

  • UPDATE: Feb 12, 2024

    For anyone who finds this thread and is having issues, it's been about a week now since my system has stabilized after updating to the most recent version of Dropbox Desktop app for mac, which initially caused so much trouble for me. I'll admit that I was not optimistic that the Dropbox desktop app for mac would ever be stable again in current Apple/Mac Operating Systems, but it did eventually seem to work itself out. The two keys that seemed to likely help make any difference, although I can't confirm it so it's just my best hunch, are quitting the "fileproviderd" process in the Apple Activity Monitor app, a dozen shut-downs and restarts over several days, and eventually, with enough time, it all returned back to normal—allowing me to do the two special resets. Good luck out there. 

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hi tomgrin74, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    As you've already been in contact with the support team recently, I'd recommend continuing your communication with them so that they can move onto further steps.

     

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

    • tomgrin74's avatar
      tomgrin74
      Helpful | Level 6

      Thanks, but wouldn't it be helpful to others in the community to track it here? It seems like sending me back to a chat or email trade is silo'ing off your team's approach to resolving this—which to be honest, my fear is that there simply is not going to be great integration between the new DB desktop app upgrade and Apple OS's. 

      • Walter's avatar
        Walter
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Hey tomgrin74 - sorry to jump in here, but could you share your ticket's ID so that we can look it up in our system?

         

        As for the issue you're facing, have you tried fixing your hard-links and permissions since you first noticed it? 

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