I’ve been using Dropbox-a file-sharing, storage, and syncing service-for a really long time now. again, I thought the point of cloud storage was that (1) it is available on different machines and (2) you don't have to decide what to do with old folders due to lack of capacity.How to Change the Dropbox Folder Location on the Mac But that would require spending a long time sifting through years worth of stuff. Yes, I could be more organized with my files, and perhaps take old folders off of Dropbox or stop syncing them. I have class folders with subfolders for each student, with further subfolders for their homeworks, etc. I have versions of papers that I want my coworkers to see. Having to click on them one by one by hand kind of defeats the purpose of cloud storage, doesn't it? I run simulations that generate many outputs. I don't understand how the "sync this file first" feature is supposed to work.
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As a result, changes in files I do update don't propagate for a long time and I end up with lots of forked versions and occasionally lose work I thought I had saved. The other issue that is annoying is that Dropbox seems to spend a lot of time updating folders that I haven't touched for years. My ongoing peeve is that yep, that initial slow-down is still there. I do have a lot of files (2 million) but am only using a fraction of the total storage. In other developments, I enabled smart sync, and it sems a bit better (upgrading the memory to 64Gb might have helped, too). It looks more like an issue of the way Dropbox and the the Mac's other processes (in particular, mds_stores which relates to Spotlight) interact. (That was part of why I never got back, I was hoping in vain to have the time to collect some numbers.) I could see that the disk read / writes was pretty high, but I can't provide a good set of numbers. a process that clearly relates to Dropbox) would be hogging the CPU. I do use the System Monitor, but I couldn't put my finger on an instance when Dropbox itself (i.e. I am sorry for not getting back after your detailed response. " for about three years, but I gave up on that.) (Also, the Dropbox icon has been stuck on "Starting. I can't search my email because my computer is stuck with Dropbox syncing. I pay something, I am not sure what level that is. ) I do have a lot of files (300Gb), I use this for work.
Is there anything that can be done to improve this? (I use selective sync as much as possible. Or at least, it does so with way more files than are actually in need of syncing.
It seems to me that Dropbox simply downloads and uploads every single file if it thinks something changed. Yet, the whole sync circus started again. Just now, I know for a fact that *nothing* changed in my files between the time I logged out and then logged back in after ~1 hour. I am pretty sure it is Dropbox, because the disk crunching and the slowing down goes away if I turn off Dropbox (or just the sync). My desktop mac (older, but running High Sierra, 32G memory and decent disk space) becomes almost unusable for 10-15 minutes following startup. I am sorry, I don't see how this answer solves anything.
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