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Donya O.'s avatar
Donya O.
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Desktop app on Windows keeps asking to make changes to the hard drive

Drop box running smoothly for the last few months.  This last week numerous issues.  1st the icon app in the tray stopped working. If I click on it I get the standard Windows 10 messages which basica...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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6 years ago

There are a few reasons as to why the app could be running slow, such as invalid permissions, having more than 300,000 files on your account, and others.

This article about high CPU usage should give some info if you’re interested in looking into this in future if you decide to link the app to your account again.

Steven WSJ's avatar
Steven WSJ
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

That is rot. One Drive has no app issues, but I have had to uninstall Dropbox.

 

So irritating to have the same message pop up every 10 minutes or so.

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