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M. A.1's avatar
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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joenoe
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

hey could u plz tell me what file that was unreadable? my problem started two weeks ago (100% disk usage). since then i formatted my computer twice, downgraded to windows 8 and replaced my 1 tera hard drive with a 250 gb ssd (!). only to realize it was dropbox sync process that was the problem all along.

 

Sanchez's avatar
Sanchez
Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
9 years ago

Hi, 

 

Thanks for posting in our forum! 

 

It seems that you and many others are having a similar issue with high disk activity relating to the Dropbox desktop application. We would like to know as many details as possible regarding these cases, so that we can investigate further. 
 
We encourage you to submit a support request via our website here: https://www.dropbox.com/contact 
 
Thanks,
Sanchez

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