[kakuri]

What are the cases where Dropbox works well for people? Years ago I used to regularly have people tell me "my computer is slow, how do I fix it?" I look at their running programs, uninstall Dropbox, and their computer is no longer slow. I hoped maybe a combination of better resource usage by Dropbox and increasing computing power had alleviated that issue, but just the other day another person called me with slowdown issues and sure enough the culprit was Dropbox, which they had just installed.

[mattgerstman]

This should be substantially better since we shipped our new sync engine

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

[gerardvivancos]

You might want to know that Dropbox Passwords hogs the CPU On windows if the browser is running but the Passwords native app is not. You will see high CPU usage from the Windows Delivery Optimization service, but the culprit is DBP whose extension is trying to contact with the host app in a loop, constantly spawning processes that die.

[heeringa]

Thanks so much--nsm alerted us and we have a fix in the works--an update should be available presently.

[nsm]

Thank you for this report. I've passed on the information to the right team and they are looking into it.