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High CPU usage even when not syncing or indexing
For the past couple of days, Dropbox has been consistently using around 30% of my CPU, when not syncing or indexing anything (i.e., the menu bar drop down says `Up to date`). Any idea why this might ...
Thank you so much V P.1 - dropbox had crippled my machine until this fix.
One point though, these commands assume that dropbox is in your personal folder. If you have moved dropbox, you have to run them on the location dropbox has been moved to. so if your dropbox folder is in e:\drobox, replace %HOMEPATH% with e: . Someone please correct me if I am wrong
BTW does this have to be done every time dropbox or the computer is restarted? It's just the effect seemed to disappear after some time and I had no choice but the force stop dropbox from Windows task manager. Is it better to set dropbox not to startup on logon? Or is it time to ditch dropbox? The app is so bad that even right clicking the icon in the tasbar displays the horrible logo doing a dance. What a waste of a once great app.
I have just noticed a dropboxupdate task that runs every hour on my machine. Is it really necessary for Dropbox to check for updates every hour wastin precious resources? It would also explain why after exiting dropbox, dropbox was still hogging my CPU.
I have disabled the task and will see how I get on. Would appreciate guidance from the collective.
