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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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Roberto r.15's avatar
Roberto r.15
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Steven G., Sebastian K., Kevin B., 

As I could note, you are programmers.

Did you notice that Dropbox now has only one plan 1TB $9.99 monthly? 

They don't care about programmers, they wanna build an average service for an average person that will use 10, 20GB only and will not complain because they will never need to store the same amount of files programmers need. They will never open a terminal, use brew or npm, use symlinks, etc. They don't care about fixing this, they prefer us to leave and charge average people for an average service that will make these casual users very happy.

Shame on you Dropbox.

 

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