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hasangursoy
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Image previews not loading or very slow, even those outside dropbox folder!

Dropbox is slowing down thumbnail generations on Windows, even when images are not located inside a dropbox folder. This is very annoying and only solution is to exit dropbox while working.
Desktop
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Jay's avatar
Jay
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
5 years ago

Hi hasangursoy, thanks for posting today!

 

It’s possible that the Dropbox desktop application is using a lot of CPU cycles or RAM.

 

Could you try the steps in this article to see if they help at all?

 

Keep me posted!

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