Desktop App Severely Affecting System Performance

Do I accept a solution when my problem isn't really solved...?? :) But I do greatly appreciate the information Falonn. Hopefully Dropbox will understand performance is more important that cheap bells and whistles. As Hitch's post shows, some people are quite angry. I'm a calmer person myself so I'll just politely let Dropbox know performance issues are the reason I left and went to Google :(

This is really not a fix.

Can someone explain what the heck is going on??? I am having the same issue. Whenever I try to access files through the Dropbox Windows Client using the File Explorer, it will literally take 30 seconds every time I try to open a folder or a file.

I'm having exactly--exactly--the same problem.

Since the last Dropbox "update" about a week ago, my computer is now unusably slow. Dropbox support is suddenly telling me (I have 3gig of DB space) that "oh, well, if you have more than 500,000 files, performance will be affected."

Utter bollocks. I've been a DB user for 10 years plus, if memory serves. I've had more than half-a-million files, in Dropbox, for at least 3-5 YEARS. Now, abruptly, performance is degrading?

It's not minor performance items, either. When I click Dropbox to pause synching, or to resume synching, it takes MINUTES--not seconds, MINUTES--for it to change over from one to the other. When I try to right-click on a file, in my file browser/explorer, to get a dropbox link, the drop-down menu can take 30-60 seconds to appear.  This is a significant, significant change.  I'm not running some small phablet or laptop here.  I am running Win10, 32g of RAM, i7 Intel Core @3.6Ghz, with a SSDD C:drive, with more than 50% space available, running two RAIDS, both 2TB (so, 8TB of disk space all together, each raided pair being 4TB), etc.  I've not had any problems or issues--until this last DB "update." 

So now, they're telling me to remove 100k files. One Hundred Thousand files "to see if the performance improves."  This is patent nonsense.  This system is running fine, a few weeks ago; DB "udpates" and NOW, there's a problem?

And no, I'm not going to uninstall and reinstall DB and wait for 1.3M files to synch!  That's insane, especially when DB is blithely telling me that nothing is going to change.

This is simply utter nonsense.  In the world of computing, things don't SUDDENLY go boom, for no reason.  If 500K were the magic number, I'd have seen this degradation years ago, and surely at least a year ago, not abruptly, after some "update."  

So, what, Dropbox is trying to tell us--after years now of endeavoring to brand Dropbox as being for business--that it's only for home users? Hobbyists? People without very many files?  If you have more than 500K files, now, Dropbox is UNUSABLE?

Is that what you're trying to sell, Dropbox? Really?  Are you SURE that's what you want to tell people? 

I, for one, already have Amazon S3 server space and I'm strongly considering it. I also have Hightail, of course, Gdrive, MS's OneDrive and so on.  I'm sure that SOMEBODY out there wants to sell me cloud storage without this claim about performance degradation that seems to have appeared out of thin air.  I am not feelin' the love here, Dropbox, not at ALL and I doubt I'm the only one. This thread shows that I'm not the only one and I expect to see more as this "update" ripples through the DB user base. 

NOT HAPPY AT ALL.