{"id":393,"date":"2015-04-04T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2017-02-07T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:57:26","slug":"dropbox-stuck-at-100-cpu-on-mac-nothing-seems-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/dropbox-stuck-at-100-cpu-on-mac-nothing-seems-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox stuck at 100% CPU on Mac, nothing seems to work"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you find your Dropbox is stuck at 100% CPU and constantly ‘Downloading\u00a0file list’ on your Mac, and you’ve tried all of the unlink\/re-link suggestions,\u00a0be sure to check you don’t have a symbolic link in your Dropbox folders.<\/p>\n
I did (from a downloaded website backup), and my Dropbox was stuck synching for weeks.<\/p>\n
Run the following from Terminal to search for symbolic links, then delete them (or zip up the folder in my case, then delete the files).<\/p>\n
If you find your Dropbox is stuck at 100% CPU and constantly ‘Downloading\u00a0file list’ on your Mac, and you’ve tried all of the unlink\/re-link suggestions,\u00a0be sure to check you don’t have a symbolic link in your Dropbox folders. I did (from a downloaded website backup), and my Dropbox was stuck synching for weeks. Run the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\ncd ~\/Dropbox
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