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Hi,
In Event Manager, every second it shows " Failed to connect to the driver: -2147024894, retrying in 1000 milliseconds¨ ID:320 (DbxSvc).
Is there an update error or something else? Thank you!
I ran a quick powershell to disable this service.
get-service -Name dbx | Stop-Service -NoWait |Set-Service -StartupType Disabled;get-service -Name dbx
@forcefx2 wrote:I ran a quick powershell to disable this service.
get-service -Name dbx | Stop-Service -NoWait |Set-Service -StartupType Disabled;get-service -Name dbx
THIS! Thanks.
Also an alternative, run from an elevated cmd prompt:
sc stop DbxSvc & sc config DbxSvc start=disabled
To Dropbox devs reading: you are pitiful.
same happens to me. windows logs are filling up with these errors and the machine is wasting cpu.
My advice .. permantly disable this service .. dropbox seems to run file without it.
Of course I would like to know what this service does !
Is anyone from dropbx saying they are at least "looking at the problem" ??
@Ross_S wrote:I see we have a number of pretty interesting, creative suggestions on how to disable, coupled with queries if it's safe to disable it. I'm of course not going to endorse a process that disables part of our software, should a feature or functionality cause user pain then we would want to know.
Guess what, your awesome feature is causing pain, lots of it. In some cases it disrupts the system and/or the ability of a sysadmin to debug system's problems due to your superb idea of logging the same dong evry gdmnn second thus cluttering the event log with useless crap.
@Ross_S wrote:My main concern around anyone disabling it is that in the future you may need this process, Smart Sync won't work correctly, you can reach out to support but this custom change you've made will be hard for us to diagnose as the root cause of whatever issue you experience.
If that's the case, then it explains a lot... especially why this is being handled so passively.
Your main concern should be that this feature is causing issues for those who aren't using it.
OMG you added a service to install a driver, that only a small set of your customers require, great I just remembered why we canceled our business account!
As to "pretty interesting, creative suggestions on how to disable", I think you lost the plot, disabling a service with the service control manager configeration tool IS HOW YOU ARE MEANT TO! But no no what the Frack would Microsoft know about it, I mean they arent DB and all.
As to "Because it fails to connect, Windows treats this as a trigger to write to the log.", talk about BS. The service writes that message to the log not windows being triggered, the servioce fails to make a connection, its writes to the event log, then resets to try again 1 second later.
Its this ONE SECOND thats stupid, that is as near as you get to polling! Why is it not checking if its needed and not doing anything if its not, no no retry a second later im sure everything will be different.
And your fix i to not flood the log, but keep flooding the system with pointless processing, great DB at its finest.
PS: to any who disable this using SC or the Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Services I would not trust that DB will change the settings on it on there next update, they ignore every other setting people make and just believe everyone wants 10+icon overlays and a bucnh of system hooks, no matter how many times they were removed. I dont expect a change with this either. I would suggest locating the EXE and changing its permissions to deny SYSTEM any access to it, that way the service will fail to start, and the updater wont be able to change the file.... (dont do it if you want Smart Sync working of course)
The beta did not correct the issue for me. I'm still seeing quite a bit logged from DbxSvc. I stopped the service manually and set it to disabled as a result.
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