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How can I throttle down Dropbox's IO operations?

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Mar 15, 20262379 views

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Empirical evidence suggests that Dropbox's indexing at startup time is the main source of slowdown for my Windows 7 partition -- things grind down to a crawl when the indexing is in progress and resume to normal after this step is done and the dropbox icon turns to a green checkmark. How can I make…

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Three options: Let Dropbox index less stuff. Use http://soluto.com/ to delay the start-up of Dropbox so it indexes at a more idle moment. Use Dropbox on demand rather than at boot.

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