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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

Hello dbox_ knock knock!  Anybody in??  KNOCK KNOCK Dropbox!

 

You've clearly got software problems to acknowledge and fix.  When is your stack of technical debt client application going to be fixed?

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Calvin2DBX
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3 years ago

Hi megawhite,

 

Glad to help you here in the Community.

 

You'll see I moved your post to a larger thread where you can see what's been tried in similar circumstances.

 

Be sure to rule out everything here, first: https://help.dropbox.com/installs/high-cpu-usage

 

Let me know what you find!

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