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Dave H.'s avatar
Dave H.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

(OS X) Dropbox consuming a lot of CPU whenever any file or folder is changed anywhere

On my OS X 10.9.5 system I'm seeing Dropbox consume CPU whenever anything on the file system changes, regardless of whether the changed files or folders are in the Dropbox synced folders. The CPU usa...
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Luwe S.'s avatar
Luwe S.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Dropbox is still using too much cpu imho. Narrowing down the folders a bit with selective sync helps, but does not solve the problem. The selective sync feature is also a bit immature. Please integrate some feature like a custom ignore list for reoccuring folders that you want dropbox to ignore by default

to name a few, for me the following can and should be always ignored by dropbox

node_modules
typo3_src
typo3
cache
idea

 

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