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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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Mark B.87
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

I keep installing the latest version of Dropbox on my 2011 13" Macbook Air (4GB RAM), hoping that Dropbox will fix the problem. In my case, Dropbox will be idle (i.e. not synching) and still use nearly 100% of CPU resources. When it is synching, it's much higher! The end result is that my fan is always on - until I simply quit Dropbox. But that defeats the point of the product, now doesn't it ... :-)

Has anyone on this thread found a solution or better alternative? 

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