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clientreleases
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3 years ago

Stable Build 141.4.3299

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akseeker 

I've seen it do that too.  It shouldn't be wasting bandwidth like that... But you can stop `DropboxMacUpdate.app` from waking up every hour by unloading its launchd job:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist

 

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akseeker
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3 years ago

I 'fixed' it by (finally succeeded in) downloading the offline Dropbox 142.4.4197.dmg and installed it, problem seems to have ceased.

 

Thanks anyway, hopefully Dropbox will fix the problem in the future…

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