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Ever since turning on Dropbox Smart Sync, Spotlight has been going nuts and using tons of CPU. The helper app "mdworker" is constantly crashing. Will report back after Dropbox finishes indexing all the Smart Sync files.
PS. Funny you can't link Dropbox photos to the image uploader in this forum.
I am having the same issue. I tried the code to disable and it has stoped for now. I have not yet enabled it again.
I enabled it and the error came back. So I have to keep spotlight disable for the error to go away or close dropbox for it to dissaper.
I have tried to unsync my dropbox and sync again same error.
I have encountered spotlight being unable to index my entire drive after enabling smart sync. I placed my Dropbox folder into the Privacy Tab of Spotlight (in System prefs) and spotlight was then able to complete an index of my computer (minus the dropbox folder of course). There appears to be something inside the dropbox folder that is giving Spotlight a problem - prior to enabling smart sync spotlight had no issues that I know of.
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Mine is Sierra as well and if I leave it one it did not go away for at least 6 hours. I closed dropbox after that and it stoped.
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