I keep hearing the fans blasting on my MacBook Pro when I’m not doing much on it, and so checking Activity Monitor only to find Dropbox is the top CPU hog.
This could drive me to another solution – anybody have an alternative they like?
@muncman what do you use it for? I never found a one-to-one replacement, but I have a few different things I use for the features I need
@muncman I just use iCloud. I have a free Dropbox account and when all else fails I use their Web UI to upload a file that needs to be shared with people who only use Dropbox. No app installed.
@ronguest Thanks — I may try moving some things in that direction. I don’t use my ~/Documents folder for all that much at present.
@muncman as soon as my workflows and apps supported iCloud, I uninstalled Dropbox and didn’t look back. Only use it via web if I need to.
@kimonostereo Nice. I’ve definitely come to rely on it, and if it weren’t for the performance issues I might not be questioning it now. It would be nice to not have that dependency anymore, though.
@muncman as soon as iCloud Drive was stable enough to use nvALT on and I moved from TextExpander, I turned off Dropbox. But, yeah, if you depend on it for your workflow, it’s a challenge!
@matpacker on Mac, I use Alfred for basic text expansion and Keyboard Maestro for everything else (multi-step and more complex auto-completes). On iOS I sync my Text Expander (pre subscription) snippets via iCloud. Most of the iOS text editors I'm using support TextExpander and not much else.
@kimonostereo Cool, thanks! I was hoping you had come up with some miracle way to input expansions into Mac OS, that would then sync to iOS. I'm in the process of looking at all my subscriptions and seeing what I can get rid of...
@matpacker yeah, unfortunately not! For the most part, the expansions I use system wide are in Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. And the slightly more complex ones are in Text Expander for the apps that support it. Nothing really complicated on iOS though.