[ejdyksen]

In my experience, Dropbox responds to all file system I/O, even those outside of the Dropbox folders, strangely.

If I'm running, say, npm install or bundle install or installing Xcode (or doing anything else I/O heavy), Dropbox starts using a bunch of CPU, proportional to the amount of I/O going on at the time. Note that none of these operations are inside my Dropbox folder.

I do believe the FSEvents infrastructure allows you to just watch an individual folder [1], so it shouldn't have to be this way...

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

[hashmymustache]

Same. I'll run npm install on my desktop and suddenly dropbox is at 110% CPU doing nothing. I end up having to force quit it and forget to restart it. It's VERY frustrating.