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M. A.1
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
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...
Sanchez
Dropbox Community Moderator
9 years agoHi,
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.
Thanks,
Sanchez
joenoe
9 years agoNew member | Level 2
its too late for that sanchez.. happily using google drive now
- Renato B.9 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Yeah, I loved dropbox concept since I knew it, and it worked very well at begining, but little issues like this are driving me to think about alternatives to dropbox.
If somebody is implementing a better usable product, certainly I will consider switch.I'm hoping that the "Infinite Project" change this performance issues, since dropbox will have kernel access I belive it will be possible to work in a smartest way.
The way dropbox watch for file-changes don't seems to be the best way.Besides performance issues it has another issues.
Another day I was planning to make big changes in my dropbox file structure, so I fully-synced my two computers(A and B) to make sure computer 'B' had'nt nothing to upload and computer 'A' nothing to download.
So, two computers with "green sync icon" I shutdown computer 'B' and start my reorganization in computer 'A'.
When I had finished with the changes I start computer 'B' to receive the changes, but to my surprise, dropbox start to upload old computer 'B' folders to dropbox again, making hundreds of duplicate files and folders.I really think dropbox should take care of these types of issues before spend time developing "google drive style" features!
- Murat I.9 years agoHelpful | Level 5Looks like buying 1TB space has no benefit in real terms... I'll look into cancelling my subscription...
Windows 10 keeps going 100% disk and freeze everything as soon as dropbox syncs..- elpresidente179 years agoNew member | Level 2
And another one here
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