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I have both Google Drive and Dropbox installed on my PC. Currently, I am using Dropbox for storing files I would like to access both from home and work PC. Because there is a lot of files and folders in Dropbox folder, every time on Windows startup, Dropbox service performs startup file indexing, and it takes around 10 minutes to finish (quite long). During that time PC runs very slow, so basically I have to wait around 15 minutes(after startup) before starting some applications I want to work with.

I guess that Google Drive also performs this startup indexing somehow, so I wonder is it faster than Dropbox? Would PC(Windows) start faster if I move all files from Dropbox to Google Drive?

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  • Are you expecting better performances at startup with Gdrive instead of DropBox? I guess there is a lot of files to be synced... Why sync these files at startup and have your PC unusable for 15 min.? It's not Gdrive vs DBox but the problem is the wrong way to use it IMHO.
    – climenole
    Dec 16, 2014 at 11:43
  • You need a new hard drive, preferably a SSD.
    – Sun
    Dec 16, 2014 at 17:32
  • How big are the files? How fast is your internet connection? Dec 17, 2014 at 10:07
  • @SilverlightFox Well, most of the files are small size, but there is little less than 5 thousands files all together, which takes around 1 GB of memory.
    – Vladimir
    Dec 17, 2014 at 11:32
  • @SilverlightFox Internet speed: ~750kb/s download, 80kb/s upload.
    – Vladimir
    Dec 17, 2014 at 11:53

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