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If 500K were the magic number, I'd have seen this degradation years ago, and surely at least a year ago, not abruptly, after some "update." In the world of computing, things don't SUDDENLY go boom, for no reason. This system is running fine, a few weeks ago DB "udpates" and NOW, there's a problem?Īnd no, I'm not going to uninstall and reinstall DB and wait for 1.3M files to synch! That's insane, especially when DB is blithely telling me that nothing is going to change. One Hundred Thousand files "to see if the performance improves." This is patent nonsense.
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So now, they're telling me to remove 100k files. I've not had any problems or issues-until this last DB "update." I am running Win10, 32g of RAM, i7 Intel with a SSDD C:drive, with more than 50% space available, running two RAIDS, both 2TB (so, 8TB of disk space all together, each raided pair being 4TB), etc. I'm not running some small phablet or laptop here. This is a significant, significant change. When I try to right-click on a file, in my file browser/explorer, to get a dropbox link, the drop-down menu can take 30-60 seconds to appear. When I click Dropbox to pause synching, or to resume synching, it takes MINUTES-not seconds, MINUTES-for it to change over from one to the other. It's not minor performance items, either. I've had more than half-a-million files, in Dropbox, for at least 3-5 YEARS. I've been a DB user for 10 years plus, if memory serves. Dropbox support is suddenly telling me (I have 3gig of DB space) that "oh, well, if you have more than 500,000 files, performance will be affected." Since the last Dropbox "update" about a week ago, my computer is now unusably slow. I'm having exactly-exactly-the same problem. Alternatively: Windows could fix its broken code.
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And Dropbox seems to update the whole folder hierarchy's icons each time (despite alleged "deduplicating logic"), so you end up with something close to 150 registry calls per file in your Dropbox!Īll we'd need is an "I don't want icon overlays" option in Dropbox and this problem would disappear. Windows doesn't seem to cache the values, so it repeats the check for every file. Maybe(?) after the latest Windows 10 update (that's my guess the Dropbox team reported they haven't been able to reproduce the behavior), that exact same "hey, Windows, update that file's icon" request now involves checking the registry for four values, which ends up closer to thirty actual registry operations. When Dropbox checks a file during re-sync, it sends out a request to Windows to update the little icon in the corner (green checkmark, etc.). Right-clicking on the desktop (or opening the Start Menu) requires checking a few dozen registry entries, but Dropbox's indexing causes a kind of denial-of-service attack on the Windows registry.ĭropbox support was pretty cool when we started talking offline and we were able to track it down to Windows being the real troublemaker. Things are slow because Dropbox is totally thrashing the registry. Is there a solution to this problem? I know there are options to limit bandwidth by the app, but I see nothing for controlling the indexing function. But the right click delay is still there even when it is successfully indexing as well. I've also had what I've seen to be a somewhat common problem where indexing hangs up. When it is fully synced and not indexing, everything seems to return to normal. This problem only occurs when the app is indexing files. I can navigate Windows Explorer with no lag, but when I right click anywhere (including my Desktop) there is a 10+ second delay to bring up the list of commands. It sounds silly, but this really does make your computer frustratingly slow when you're trying to work with files in Windows Explorer.
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To be honest, the only thing I've notied is right clicking. I say "certain aspects" because really it's not the whole thing. However, recently the desktop application has been making certain aspects of my computer unusably slow. I can't say I've messed around with a bunch of different cloud storage services, but Dropbox has been more or less great for me for years.