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They introduced a second 1 TB plan for twice the price with questionable added value except for Smart Sync and their offerings with more storage space are only
by hs86 8y ago
They introduced a second 1 TB plan for twice the price with questionable added value except for Smart Sync and their offerings with more storage space are only made for teams.
Maybe it is time for me to switch away from Dropbox?
Previously, one of the main advantages of Dropbox was their reliable sync client but this attribute is fading away:
When I do many little file operations on Windows (npm, TeX Live), I expect to see MsMpEng.exe to eat away my CPU cycles. This is somewhat expected from an on demand antivirus scanner and as a Windows user it is somewhat common to whitelist some project folders or temporarily disable the AV before starting certain tasks.
On macOS the same thing happens thanks to Dropbox! Even outside of my Dropbox folder their sync client seems to intercept all file operations and do some CPU-heavy calculations on them. I don't know when this started and what the technical explanation for this is but at some time the Dropbox client on the Mac started to cause a system-wide performance regression.
What is the state of Google One sync client? In the past I read some bad reports about it but after several rebrandings maybe it has matured technically?
- stefan_ 8y agoWell, for starters, it doesn't exist on Linux.
- lstamour 8y agoI haven't received obscure python error messages in awhile... but then that was because I switched to odrive as a sync client, about two years back. Really, Google Drive the website and storage service are both amazing, but the client apps? Not so much... At least they've a clear API (fourth gen now?) so third party apps are easily supported.
- woolvalley 8y agoWhen you have two 'file monitoring' apps accessing each other's scan space, they can interpret each other's access as edits and go into a CPU loop. Dropbox and any other sync client will do this. I generally look at AV as effectively useless and badly made, your system will speed up a lot in general (independent of dropbox) if you stop using it. > Some third-party apps access files in your Dropbox folder. Dropbox may interpret this access as edits to the files, and sync these perceived changes. If a third-party app continually requests access to your files, Dropbox will continue to sync, which will in turn lead to high CPU usage. > This loop usually occurs with third-party syncing apps, backup apps, and anti-virus or security software, or when a third-party app is installed within the Dropbox folder. > https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/high-cpu-usage https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/high-cpu-usage