Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by abyrvalgg on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:34PM (#25765302)

Migrated from Dropbox when I noticed that their client uses about 300 Mb of memory on Windows and my old laptop with HDD was terribly slow just right after booting. WTF? Is it really necessary 300Mb of memory to just sync my files to the cloud?

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by hs86 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:28PM (#25766073)

This week I canceled Dropbox, and on my Windows PC, I moved ~500 GiB from my Dropbox folder over to the Google Drive File Stream volume.

I barely noticed any CPU usage from GDFS, and Dropbox.exe was also somewhat reasonable, but the fans of the MacBook Air next to me started screaming.

There is something wrong with their Mac client, and with GDFS, the old MBA remains quieter, and the battery life improved as well.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by jasonv on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:14PM (#25765871)

I've been on macOS for years now, but was installing Dropbox on a Windows machine. It kept downloading that client instead of the folder sync app.

Took me a while to figure out why.. the Windows Install / Store interstitial is doing them no favors, and their documentation barely even addresses the "Install anyway" link you need to click on.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by toyg on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:43PM (#25765423)

Electron will do that to you...

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by gruez on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:45PM (#25765450)

I thought they used python?

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by toyg on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:53PM (#25767817)

I doubt that gargantuan UI is now python.

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