Hi Severin, I haven't experienced any battery drain using Dropbox on MBP, MBA, iPad4, iPhone 6 plus.
Are you using the latest version of Dropbox on the MacBook? There was a version of Dropbox that was causing significant battery drain, but a subsequent update fixed it. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 26 May 2015, at 8:45 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > I have an iMac, a MacBook, and iPad mini, networked and all using a common > Dropbox account. > The iMac and the iPad show no symptom of power drain (I can of course see > visually on the iPad). > The MacBook (OsX Lion), when connected to Dropbox, warms up, the fan comes on > and the battery drains a full charge in less than 1 hour! I have cleared > and reinstalled that Dropbox to no avail. > Has any one any comment or experience on this? > Severin Crisp > > Sent from Sev's iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>