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fort
New member | Level 2
8 years ago
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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 ...
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megawhite
Collaborator | Level 9
3 years ago

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz

16GB

 

It is only fairly recently that DB has been hammering the CPU every day for no apparent reason, roughly a couple of weeks ago it started.  Yesterday I ticked all Dropbox.exe processes in Resource Monitor and looked at the disk usage tab.  No files were being shown as being accessed.

I am a software developer BTW.

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Jay
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3 years ago

How many files do you have in your Dropbox folder approximately on the local machine?

 

Are all the files local, online-only, or some in between?

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