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theMotoMan's avatar
theMotoMan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

M1 macOS version uses 500+MB or RAM

I use an 8GB MacBook Air and it routinely runs out of RAM and starts running slow.  I recently was checking to see what the memory hogs are and the biggest is the browser, but I see that DropBox take...
desktop
Mac
Storage space
McSpeedmouse's avatar
McSpeedmouse
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Seems all OS do have the same problem

I have 6000 files running on Windows and a RAM usage of 300MB.

What can I do to solve this?

theMotoMan's avatar
theMotoMan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

You can't fix this, the excessive memory consumption is just the way DropBox is designed.  They danced all around the issue and never would tell me what the memory consumption should be.  We have had 5 MacBooks and they all exhibit the same excessive RAM usage.  The solution is to switch to another storage vendor.

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