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Nyed0723's avatar
Nyed0723
New member | Level 2
12 months ago

Accessing files in the Dropbox folder is extremely slow due to updates not cleaning up the registry

The longer the you have dropbox installed the worse the issue will get. It doesn't clean up keys linked to its previous version, so every query loops through leftover keys that are useless or non-exi...
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Hannah
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12 months ago

Hey Nyed0723, thanks for reaching out to us.

Can we actually send you an email, so we can take a closer look into this internally?

Let me know.

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