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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...
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.
