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Dave H.'s avatar
Dave H.
New member | Level 2
11 years ago

(OS X) Dropbox consuming a lot of CPU whenever any file or folder is changed anywhere

On my OS X 10.9.5 system I'm seeing Dropbox consume CPU whenever anything on the file system changes, regardless of whether the changed files or folders are in the Dropbox synced folders. The CPU usa...
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Wassim J.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro Retina 13 inch. I have been seeing very high temperatures. So Apple advised me to fresh install Yosemite and then start adding 3rd party software one at a time to test what is causing the high temperatures. First thing I installed was Dropbox and immediately, I am getting >100% CPU usage and temperatures shooting up to 95C!! I have about 30,000 files on Dropbox. Just downloading them should not be so stressful on the CPU!

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