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lxblanco
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

"Dropbox for macOS on File Provider is now ready" but I don't want install this.

Hi I'm on macOS 14.4.1 and Dropbox keeps giving me the notification "Dropbox for macOS on File Provider is now ready", but I don't want install this update.   Is there a solution to stop receivin...
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  • lxblanco's avatar
    lxblanco
    7 months ago

    Hi Megan,

     

    Thank you very much for your response.

     

    I'm sorry, I don't know what happened but that message has not been displayed again and the update was not installed. That's exactly what I was looking for: stop getting the message without having to install the update.

     

    I hope it doesn't happen again.

     

    Regards.

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Rory M.3
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Wise decision, I opted to go for the DropBox macOS on FileProvider update, and it completed [profanity removed per the Community's Guidelines] my machine. Finder became completely unresponsive almost immediately upon update, I could access pre-existing files no problem, but could not save new files or move files without massive lags and often Finder would just completely stall. Force restarting Finder did not help. Ultimately, I uninstalled DropBox, turned off iCloud Drive, turned it back on.

While DropBox was installed and Finder was malfunctioning, fileproviderd process in activity monitor was using 100%--150% CPU, killing the process did not help. 

dropbox: shame on you for shipping this garbage. 

Users: DO NOT "UPDATE" to FileProvider version, it's trash.

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Walter
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7 months ago

Hi there Rory M.3 - thanks for your feedback on this and sharing your experience with us.

 

I've logged it in our system and you can let us know if you have anything else to add.
 

If you happen to have the desktop app installed and you'd like to troubleshoot this further, just let us know. 

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