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Too high disk activity
While I'm using my computer normally without touching anything Dropbox related, the Dropbox process (I have a system monitor installed that shows disk usage and which process is using it the most amo...
I don't know if this has been solved elsewhere, but I finally found a partial solution for the constant hangs I was getting while Dropbox pegged my hard drive usage at 100%. Hopefully this will fix the issue for everyone else or at least make the problem happen a lot less often as it did with me. I've included the original link and a summary/adaptation of the instructions below that.
how-to-fix-100-disk-usage-in-windows-10
Open your task manager and find one of the Dropbox instances under the "Processes" tab. Right click it and select "properties." Select the "security" tab and, with the "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" selected, click the "edit" button. Check the box next to "Write" and apply.
I still have the occasional spike, but it happens a LOT less now. Hope this helps.
Aha! Finally - confirmation! I've spent hours trying to track this down (I even swapped my desktop unit thinking it might be a dodgy disk).
I used the GUI for the Windows Peformance Toolkit by Google (scroll down to the Oct 12, 2015 post by MoRbldBoY) linked on this page: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/how-to-fix-100-disk-usage-in-windows-10/7c5c979b-0ed0-4855-b9b8-05b9499533e2?page=3
What do I see? 100% usage and Dropbox is all over the place. I pause sync and the disk usage drops, unpause and it's soon at 100% again. I'm using SmartSync so there's hardly any I/O transfer.
How has this issue existed for so long Dropbox? I hope my boss can get our OneDrive issues sorted in the next few days: then we can say goodbye to this.
Hopefully this sample of trace might give one of your devs a clue!
@gregrobson Even with smartsync dropbox still needs to scan all the placeholder files. In my own case there's 1000's of them. Even though they're only a few bytes it still seems to take forever.
@Levi - yes same here. Thankfully I don't need it much and the company is moving to OneDrive. I can get away with the web version until then. Just seems odd that nobody at Dropbox has picked this up.
I did notice that even SmartSync was slow as well.
NorahDropbox Staff
Go ahead and add me to the ticket as well. This isn't a new issue, I think its a systemic one, most likely related to the root logic of how dropbox works. I loose 20-30 minutes every morning because of this.. and we are only using 2% of the 10 TB that we have access too... if we actually utilized what we paid for I'd have to login to my computer on friday to be able to start monday morning.
You guys did 1.1 billion in revenue last year... you aren't a startup anymore... put your big boy pants on and step up to the plate, or google will beat you since they probably dropped that much on latte's and granola last year for the crew.
