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How did 4GB of stored pictures cripple his machine?

• threepipeproblm 9y ago
  'Cripple' is probably an exaggeration, I wasn't there (just got the angry phone call) but I believe it was a combination of two factors. First his machine not having a huge amount of breathing room with HD space. Second, the "magic" automated, slow file transfer made his machine unavailable for manual use. But at some point he started to point the finger at Dropbox, started plugging and unplugging the device (have you tried turning it on and off again?). This was a quite smart person who was not computer savvy. I think he was trying to manually transfer a few photos to his PC. I get it... something he used to be able to do for himself stopped working, and until he figured out what was going on, effectively locked up his machine. If you take this in the context of what others have said about Dropbox's takeover of CPU, hopefully my use of 'cripple' makes sense... I have rarely seen cases where "magic behaviors" that users don't understand work really well.