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T-Bird
3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
DropBox for macOS app using a lot of RAM
Hi All,
Does anyone know how to stop DB from using all the ram in the screenshot below?
20GB is monstrous.
Many thanks
- brokenmusicExplorer | Level 4
Yesterday my M2 MacBook was performing slowly and I noticed the Dropbox desktop app was using over 42GB of RAM! Could this be a memory leak?
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey brokenmusic, thanks for letting us know about this.
Can you let us know which version of the Dropbox app you're using and what the sync status is?
You can hover over your Dropbox icon, to see this info.
Do you also have a lot of files in your Dropbox folder?
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