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RichJ
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

My computer's experiencing a lot of high CPU usage

I have a fresh install of Windows 10 on a 32Gb i7 laptop. Dropbox was installed a week ago with most files set to online only, and the initial sync completed within a few hours.  Now, Dropbox frequen...
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Walter
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6 years ago

Thanks for the updates on this RichJ!

 

As our most recent, stable version of the desktop app just came out, may I have you install this one and let us know if you're still noticing high CPU usage on your computer?

 

Here's a direct link for your reference: 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?build=99.4.501&plat=win&type=full 

 

Thanks for your patience and cooperation Rich. 

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RichJ
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

I'm already on build 99.4.501.  When Dropbox is doing it's high CPU thing, Windows Explorer becomes very unresponsive.  The Dropbox icons flicker on and off across my folder tree, the mouse cursor continously flickers from arrow to hourglass and right clicking for context menus is very sluggish.  I don't really feel like I'm going to get a solution to this.  I'll say it again, this is a decent laptop with a fresh install of Windows and most of my Dropbox files are online only.  Your software is killing my laptop performance, how can it be so bad??

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