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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...
I agree, the multiple finder extension also happened on my machines. The nr. 1 fix for every problem is always "Advanced re-install", but it does not fix this, it also does not fix high memory usage. Just look a the posted screenshot in this topic.. Dropbox uses 1030MB of memory for a system with 700 files stored locally and probably doing nothing at that time.
Although.. for an application that uses embedded Chromium it does not seem that strange it uses a lot of resources. When running Dropbox you are essentially running a small Chrome Browsers session just for the UI.. 😉
It's been over a month since anyone posted in this thread and I, too, am having this issue on a MBP that less than a year old. Crazy that DB has abandoned it. <tsk><tsk><tsk> What's a better alternative? A nephew worked for Box for a while, and I think I still have that account. And there's Google. Is there another other there? (DP, feel free to chime in on your better competitors.
I have the same issue with Google Drive's "backup & sync" and OneNote Finder Integration.
It's not clear to me that these are the process causing me issues. The issue I'm trying to solve is my Mac gets really laggy when trying to change volume/brightness. The increase/decrease animations for both lag far behind the button clicks.
- I think every finder window or (open/save) window spawns a new Finder extension instance. Maybe these are not always cleaned up automatically?
Same here... and it's consistent. Even when I deactivate / pause DropBox. My thoughts, and it may be farfetched, but could the issue possibly be that Dropbox, as well as similar online storage apps, continually peruses our computers? I also, continually receive random messages, asking if I want to save a file to Dropbox... And they are files that Dropbox should have no access to.
Any ideas?
