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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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Diello A.'s avatar
Diello A.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

I followed all the suggestions left here by Dropbox Staff and none of them will solve my problem. 

Dropbox client is like a virus. Whenever it's active, it will drain all my CPU and RAM and won't let me do anything else in my computer.

It means that if I want to do something productive in my computer, I have to close Dropbox completely (which is senseless, since I want to keep my folders in sync).

I don't think Dropbox staff will do anything to solve this problem. They don't seem to be really interested in making their customers happy.

I'm shocked how Google Drive can do the exact same thing without ruining my computer.

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