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dropitoverthere
Explorer | Level 4
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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Wvp
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
I think every finder window or (open/save) window spawns a new Finder extension instance. Maybe these are not always cleaned up automatically?
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ncole
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

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?

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