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dropitoverthere
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5 years ago

Dropbox Finder Extension on Mac Resource Consumption

Since upgrading to Big Sur, I have started noticing Dropbox Finder Extension occasionally spawning multiple instances and consuming tons of resources.  This ends up causing my mac to become unrespons...
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Lusil
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5 years ago
Hi there dropitoverthere, thanks for reaching out to us about this. 

Could you send us a screenshot of what you're seeing? 

Have you noticed this happening at a specific point in time, for example, when you open files from your Dropbox folder?

Let me know and we'll go from there, cheers!

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