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afrey25
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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High CPU Usage after updating MacBook Pro to MacOS Monterey (12.3)

I installed the latest MacOS update (Monterey 12.3) on my MacBook pro last night and now Dropbox is almost continuously syncing files and sucking my CPU usage. Fans are running almost constantly, and...
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  • BenDBX's avatar
    BenDBX
    3 years ago

    Hi Everybody,

     

    I spoke with our engineering team to confirm that this issue was resolved. I'm following up with this thread to confirm that high CPU usage is no longer a problem for any users. Ensure your MacOS and Dropbox are up to date, and please let us know if this is still affecting you. Thanks!

     

    Regards,

    Ben

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Stecki
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Same problem here (M1 MacBookAir 2020, Monterrey 12.3, Dropbox 144.4.4491). About an hour ago there was continuous high cpu usage by dropbox; my machine got so hot, I decided to shut down and wait for it to cool. After restart, now every few minutes very high CPU usage, "indexing". Then everything is "up to date". Then a few minutes later "indexing" with high cpu. I have not added files for about 2 hours and there is no third party app currently posting file updates to my dropbox. This problem seems to have started today (presumably after a dropbox self update). 

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Goatbuoy
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Same here -  MacOS 12.0.1; MPB 2019

 

 

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