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M. A.1
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Too high disk activity

While I'm using my computer normally without touching anything Dropbox related, the Dropbox process (I have a system monitor installed that shows disk usage and which process is using it the most amo...
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slmetcalf
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

I have the same issue and it only started happening a few days ago right before I had to reinstall windows.    It seems to be a big problem as I like to keep it open so i can access files I need but keeping it open renders my system useless and no other tasks can be done.  Even just starting it up with nothing else it gives me high disk usage. I am also a paid user. Very inconvenient to shut it down and only accessing my files from dropbox website but that is only way I found i can get things done.

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