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Comment by GordonS

Years ago when I used Dropbox on Windows, if would poll every single file on startup, which in the days of spinning disks rendered the machine unusable for several minutes - does Dropbox on Windows still do this?

Also, after the startup phase, IIRC Dropbox used the `FindFirstChangeNotification` Windows API function, which can miss changes under heavy load - do you still use this method, or have you moved to something else, such as using the NTFS USN journal, or a file system minifilter driver?

parent GordonS 6 years ago

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