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Desktop app is slow when starting up, and slows down the computer while doing so
Why does it take so long to start up dropbox? While it's starting up, other programs are very slow, almost unresponsive. It takes over 20 minutes to show starting/syncing completed. I have 16gb ram, ...
Hey dchassin,
Welcome to the Dropbox Community, let's look into that together!
Please keep in mind that the Dropbox application needs to perform a quick reindex whenever it is restarted or paused/resumed to check if any files changed since the client was last run. A good initial step to improve the syncing performance would be to reduce the overall load of the client, by enabling Selective Sync.
Moreover, you could manually customize your bandwidth settings, that'll probably help you speed things up.
Because you've mentioned that you need your files for work though, let me suggest
It seems that Dropbox support - ignore this serious problem. We are using dropbox buisness on all computers in our company, and this problem occurs on all the computers. If the problem is not solved in a month, we would cancel all our accounts, and switch to another cloud service. We are already testing some other cloud services, that until now seems to work properly, and also is cheaper..
The problem cost us a lot of money, because we can not use our computers - in the first 30 minutes, after they have been started. Because of the problem, we have been forced to uninstall the program from all our external laptops etc. - used by sales people. The sales people can not wait 30 minutes, when they are visiting customers.
