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Too high disk activity
While I'm using my computer normally without touching anything Dropbox related, the Dropbox process (I have a system monitor installed that shows disk usage and which process is using it the most amo...
hey could u plz tell me what file that was unreadable? my problem started two weeks ago (100% disk usage). since then i formatted my computer twice, downgraded to windows 8 and replaced my 1 tera hard drive with a 250 gb ssd (!). only to realize it was dropbox sync process that was the problem all along.
Sanchez
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I went around and around with support for this issue. Complete waste of time.
- its too late for that sanchez.. happily using google drive now
Yeah, I loved dropbox concept since I knew it, and it worked very well at begining, but little issues like this are driving me to think about alternatives to dropbox.
If somebody is implementing a better usable product, certainly I will consider switch.I'm hoping that the "Infinite Project" change this performance issues, since dropbox will have kernel access I belive it will be possible to work in a smartest way.
The way dropbox watch for file-changes don't seems to be the best way.Besides performance issues it has another issues.
Another day I was planning to make big changes in my dropbox file structure, so I fully-synced my two computers(A and B) to make sure computer 'B' had'nt nothing to upload and computer 'A' nothing to download.
So, two computers with "green sync icon" I shutdown computer 'B' and start my reorganization in computer 'A'.
When I had finished with the changes I start computer 'B' to receive the changes, but to my surprise, dropbox start to upload old computer 'B' folders to dropbox again, making hundreds of duplicate files and folders.I really think dropbox should take care of these types of issues before spend time developing "google drive style" features!
- Looks like buying 1TB space has no benefit in real terms... I'll look into cancelling my subscription...
Windows 10 keeps going 100% disk and freeze everything as soon as dropbox syncs..
I'm running Windows 10 and my Dropbox is located on my E drive (E:\Dropbox). I also notice high disk activity. However when I look in Resource Monitor I noticed that the high activity generated by Dropbox.exe is on the C drive (not E).
- Sanchez
In my case this is only an issue on startup, dropbox uses 100% disk usage for ages.
I have a large set of many small files which rarely change, but every time dropbox starts it needs to check whether any files have changed. As an aside, I'm using smart sync so most of the files are 0b. So even with an SSD things slow down, it's not the amount of data being read it's the number of reads.
Anyhow my workaround is to delay running dropbox after startup. At least this way I've got a chance to open whatever programs I need before dropbox spools up. Once programs are open I don't need the disk so much. You can find third party apps to delay startup but you don't need that. In the dropbox app, I disabled "run on startup", and then created a task (task manager) to run dropbox 30 minutes after log on.
