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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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Steven G.6
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

I seem to have the same issues as Sebastian K. and others, basically anytime I modify a file or possibly install or update a package through homebrew it will start using a high % of CPU, 90-100 and for no good reason... at least I don't see why it would need to be reading activity outside of the Dropbox folder especially when I'm not using symlinks inside of it.

Something is afoul here.

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