In theory this means I can work on any Mac and each has all my critical files.) (I love to use multiple Macs and share all my work between them via Dropbox. Very annoying, to say the least, and since my workflow is dependent upon Dropbox which has suddenly proven to be unreliable, I am now seriously considering abandoning what used to be the #1 app/service on any Mac I use. I ended up having to do old-fashioned sneakernet (using a thumb drive) to take files to the old Mac, process them, and bring the processed files back to the new Catalina Mac. Since I was in the middle of a work project and Catalina wouldn’t let me run certain critical 32-bit apps, I needed to run them on this older Mac – but the data was on Dropbox and not synced. When I went to relaunch it, it claimed it would take 2 days to sync! (I have slow satellite internet and when I just checked it now it still says 5292 files and 2+ days left – even though it’s been syncing for 24 hours already.) But then I discovered on one of my other Macs, Dropbox had apparently quit and stopped syncing at some point in the past few weeks. I forced everything to quit and restarted Dropbox and it started syncing again. Dropbox used to be like that, but all the new features are making it suck. I have Microsoft OneDrive installed and it uses 200MB of ram total. The main Dropbox app was using over 1GB of ram. There were about 20 “Dropbox Web Helper” processes, each using 50-100MB of memory, plus several Finder extensions and I don’t know what all. Syncing seemed to be stuck and when I went to Activity Monitor, I discovered like 30 items with Dropbox in the name. I just had a bunch of trouble with Dropbox this past week.
What’s really pissing me off is that I used none of the new features, and all they do is interfere with what made Dropbox so great (its simplicity and efficiency). I’m feeling similar, though since the desktop app can be disabled (or at least turned off as the default, that didn’t bother me that much other than it’s a sign that Dropbox no longer cares about its users (at least the old ones – they’re going after the enterprise now). That Desktop app, installed without my permission and popping up without me asking, made me end my Dropbox subscription.
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