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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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Laureline
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10 years ago

Hi Diello,

Did you followed the advice that Ed sent earlier?

There can be very different causes for a CPU issue.

If you did, I would recommend you to write to the support team here:

https://www.dropbox.com/support

They will be more than happy to look into your issue, and try to find a reason why Dropbox is using so much CPU on your computer :)

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