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hikkuto
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

High memory usage is unsolvable

I really like Dropbox, more than Google Drive. But it is in the past. I prefer Google Drive now. What I really hate about Dropbox is the high memory usage. I already tried to uninstall and reinstall,...
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hikkuto
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

I also already tried to check whether there are symlinks in the Dropbox folder, but there is nothing with the following codes.

Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\Documents.Cloud\Dropbox\" -Force |
    Where-Object { $_.LinkType -ne $null -or $_.Attributes -match "ReparsePoint" } |
    ft FullName,Length,Attributes,Linktype,Target

and

dir /AL /S D:\Documents.Cloud\Dropbox\

I used to have one that points to a folder inside Dropbox, but I did not create any symlinks after a clean installation of Windows. My Windows installation is also due to another problem with Dropbox that won't show thumbnails.

 

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