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bunnywarren
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Disabling auto-update on the Dropbox Windows application?

I find that the Dropbox updater will run randomly whilst I'm using the PC and this causes so much activity with the hard drive that the system is almost unusable until it completes. Since this takes ...
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    bunnywarren
    7 months ago

    For what it's worth, I resolved the issue by moving to a competitor product that didn't have this behaviour since there doesn't appear to be any appetite within Dropbox to fix it.

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bunnywarren
Helpful | Level 5
7 months ago

For what it's worth, I resolved the issue by moving to a competitor product that didn't have this behaviour since there doesn't appear to be any appetite within Dropbox to fix it.

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