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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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Neven J.'s avatar
Neven J.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Bump!

I am having exactly the same issue with exactly the same findings on multiple MacbookPros.

Did not get much love from Dropbox support. They tried but failed miserably and they ignore the issue.

Dropbox support performed stack analysis remotely (without my permission or knowledge) and saw my running process was TimeMachine. They think TimeMachine is causing clash and asked me to raise issue with Apple LOL.

For test I reinstalled dropbox and osx, disabled timemachine, checked symlinks, ownerships, permissions,  etc etc...  - and high cpu is still here.

I do not have this issue on Windows on other hand.

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