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Dropbox seems to be stuck in a loop, and opening hundreds of background processes. This consumes all my CPU capacity, then eats at my memory and disk space. See attached pics. There also seem to be windows being automatically opened, as my typing or mouse clicks in other apps is interrupted when the hundreds of background processes are opened. The number seems to level off after about 1650 (about 100 are from other sources; I waited for a few minutes after startup to start the dropbox app, and didn't have too much trouble until I opened other programs that access files on Dropbox).
I went through the file permissions troubleshooting, and it came back with an error about the cookies file. I couldn't find it in order to try to fix it.
\Users\(username)\Cookies\*: Access is denied Successfully processed 644 files; Failed processing 1 files
Same exact problem. I'm not going through beta testing your update. It happened IMMEDIATELY after your last software update, so let's not go to the "third party" blame game. It's your error. I'm already prepping to move to another service if you can't admit it and fix it.
I've uninstalled the app, reinstalled. I've looked at my anti-virus, but if Dropbox can't work with a large vendor like BitDefender, then Antivirus trumps Dropbox....
Mike Poling
Same issues with my dropbox. Just started happening last week.
This same problem happened to me starting two days ago, spawning hundreds of processes within about 30 minutes. I rebooted a bunch of times, same thing. I tried uninstalling, but can't - once the processes have spawned, there are too many to "stop" or "end" - but I was able to "end task" right after rebooting and uninstall. I reinstalled and the same problem again. It uses 100% of my disk space and almost 100% of my memory, making my computer useless. If a solution is found, I'd really like to know.
My solution was to move from Dropbox to Google Drive. Problem solved and uploads are much faster
I have the same problem. Dropbox goes into an endless cycle. Task manager shows a never ending stream of hundreds, perhaps thousands of dropbox processes, using up my RAM and causing programs to crash. The first program I notice crashing is chrome. Others follow later. (I had to switch to edge.) Removing dropbox from startup programs helped for awhile. But the problem still returned. I tried to uninstall dropbox. It won't uninstall.
If I run task manager immediately after rebooting, and end the 3 or 4 dropbox processes that have already started, that does seem to stop the problem of endless additional dropbox processes. But still my computer is acting funny. And I can't manually end dropbox processes every time I boot up. And still dropbox won't uninstall.
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