Hi Eric, This sluggishness happens whenever you try to access external network resources. If you were trying to connect to a Windows machine as a networked device, or if you were using the now defunct MobileMe's iDisk, you would also get the Finder busy messages while running without without a monitor. (Well, you might get fewer busy messages if the connection were only on your local network.) I don't think this behavior can be changed according to the version of Dropbox, unfortunately. And I suspect that it won't go away with Mountain Lion, since similar behavior has been found for Mac Minis running without a monitor in early operating systems. I'm afraid that you'll either need to connect a monitor or get the Sewell Electronics adapter and use that with the Apple connector as John described in his "Adventures with My Mac Mini" blog post at his macfortheblind.com web page: http://macfortheblind.com/?p=591
HTH. Esther On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi listers, > > For anyone else using a mini, or if a similar problem developes here is what > happened for me with Dropbox and mmy finder. > last week I installed dropbox on my September 2011 mini, using OS 10.7.4 . > soon after that I noticed that my finder became busy and very sluggish. it > was almost unusable. relunching the finder and restarting the computer did > not help. finally, I called apple. After extended time struggling for > solutions using the sluggish finder we finally removed dropbox from the start > at login area under users in the system preferences. That did it. the mini > became snappy and very responsive again. > > I tried several older versions of dropbox and the newest beta and the problem > remains. this is happening under Lyon so I'm hoping that maybe with Mountain > Lyon the problem will go away. > > If anyone has this problem then at least this provides a temporary solution. > > if someone knows how I might use dropbox on a mini with no monitor please > share. > > Eventually, I will obtain a monitor and I will be very curious to see if that > truly solves some of these strange behaviors with the mini. > > > Eric Caron > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
