[vishvananda]

the parent mentions in parentheses that the dir doesn't have to be in dropbox because it appears to monitor all files.

[TeMPOraL]

Sounds broken on user end. Never seen anything like this when using Dropbox on several versions of Windows and Ubuntu, on both low-end and high-end machines.

[zapzupnz]

> on several versions of Windows and Ubuntu

This discussion is about performance of the macOS client. Saying that clients for other OS work well doesn't really contribute to it.