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Peter S.126's avatar
Peter S.126
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Re: High CPU Usage after updating MacBook Pro to MacOS Monterey (12.3)

I'm experiencing the same issues (v161.2.3938). fileproviderd eats my CPU alive. MacBook Pro M2.

Further, some apps like QuickLook preview in Finder no longer work correctly as the files aren't really there, they are streamed on demand, but not always?

 

All in all, this new version is borderline unusable. If this doesn't get resolved I'll just move my remaining files to iCloud Drive.

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  • Max B.'s avatar
    Max B.
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    3 years ago

    Hey Peter S.126,

     

    Sorry to hear that :/. A few questions to help us with debugging:

    • Is `fileproviderd` constantly using a lot of CPU? While this is happening, is Dropbox reporting that it is "Synced"? 
    • re: QuickLook, we continue to support rendering preview images for files that are not available locally. Was there a specific file type that you noticed was affected? 

    Thanks!

  • Peter S.126's avatar
    Peter S.126
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago
    There were no new files, so it shouldn’t have done anything when it went 100% CPU for minutes.

    Files are simple jpg’s
  • Max B.'s avatar
    Max B.
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    3 years ago

    Thanks!

     

    A few more followups that would be helpful:

    • Before this happened, what local or remote changes did you make in Dropbox (if any)? It sounds like it was mostly idle? 
    • While this happened, did you also see `DropboxFileProvider` consuming lots of CPU or was it just `fileproviderd`? 
    • Do you have another Cloud Storage provider installed that's also using FileProvider?

    Thumbnails not being rendered for JPGs certainly is not expected, we'll look into this. 

     

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