You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Dropbox StaffStable Build 142.4.4197
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I've had a similar experience on my 2019 iMac (Monterey v12.0.1 running DB v142.4.4197), with over 100GB excess data usage in February & ramping up to be similar this month.
Investigating network activity I've found that, in my case, the process dropboxmacupdate is the culprit.
The version of dropboxmacupdate on my mac was updated Jan 22nd 2022 & is version 142.0.15.
Have quit the process & my data usage has returned to normal (no extra data charges for me thank goodness this month!!)
(macOS High Sierra v 10.13.6, mid-2010 MacBook Pro)
I'm up to DB 151.4.4304, and DropboxMacUpdate is still using a lot of bandwidth, 5.32 GB in 20 or so hours.
I'm stuck with a 1-Meg connection ATM, prolly won't change in the near future.
Does net connection speed have anything to do with the huge amount of usage? Is it trying to download the update, but failing (due to timeout?) and retrying the download?
Frustrating, and trying to get in contact with DB team is nearly impossible, in my experience. Arrgh!
