It slows down the computer with the dropbox: usage tips
Recently left me a team that was "slowed" to boot. It was a laptop with Celeron, pretty outdated already.
What was my surprise that all that produced this problem was that they had shared a several gigabytes of information in Dropbox folder (videos and holiday photos) and not any virus to make the backup in the cloud, so whenever checking changes, the hard drive is "went crazy".
TIPS FOR THE DROPBOX
The dropbox, to meet the changes in the files and synchronize them with internet, indexes completely the same, which is to continuously access the hard disk. This saves bandwidth to synchronize only blocks of the file that have actually changed (however Google Drive again to upload the entire file), but that is an extra workload for slow computers that them can be unusable.
If it makes significant changes in files (such as adding several many large) this causes the computer to not answer; to having the laptop hard drive slow (low power).
To avoid this should go slowly putting files in the dropbox folder, either not to get too many.
If the computer is blocked for this reason, the best thing to do is to boot into mode "to test failures" giving the F8 key while it starts up and selecting that option, and one time in Windows uninstall DROPBOX or disable auto-timing to be manual.I do not recommend Dropbox for small folders or files, in total less than 1 GByte.
