Late 2011 15" MacBook Pro: Fan speeds running high

[SKYLANE]

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Following this procedure helped me delete and reinstall DropBox, performed all Terminal Commands as prescribed. The quirkiness of the intermittent DropBox behavior resolved itself.

https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integr...-reinstall


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I was kind of aware of that issue that you describe in the thread you linked. I bought a new MacBook Air in the beginning of the year (last model that still had the non USB-C ports on it). I put an OWC 1TB SSD in it. I may migrate everything over to that to avoid any issues that may be around the corner! ;-)

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SKYLANE wrote:
hal...

Following this procedure helped me delete and reinstall DropBox, performed all Terminal Commands as prescribed. The quirkiness of the intermittent DropBox behavior resolved itself.

https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integr...-reinstall


Article Accelerator...

I was kind of aware of that issue that you describe in the thread you linked. I bought a new MacBook Air in the beginning of the year (last model that still had the non USB-C ports on it). I put an OWC 1TB SSD in it. I may migrate everything over to that to avoid any issues that may be around the corner! ;-)

Did that lower the fans?

[SKYLANE]

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Yes, surprisingly the fans have settled down with what little time I have used it since fixing DropBox. If anything changes, will report back later...

[SKYLANE]

Two days into fixing my DropBox issue, and the 2011 MBP has settled down quite a bit. The Activity Monitor now shows DropBox being way down in the noise too.

I think awhile back that I moved the DropBox folder from the User Folder to the Desktop, which may have made it crazy (?).