{"id":462,"date":"2019-07-12T20:25:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/?p=462"},"modified":"2019-07-12T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:25:39","slug":"google-drive-file-stream-high-cpu-usage-on-mac-os-x-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/google-drive-file-stream-high-cpu-usage-on-mac-os-x-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive File Stream High CPU usage on Mac OS X \/ macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When installing Google Drive File Stream for macOS for the first time, you should see <strong>Loading your files<\/strong> within the app &#8211; along with the sudden realization that your fans spin up and <em>something<\/em> is running one core of your CPU at 100% load. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from Google constantly fixing bugs and pushing updates to improve Google Drive File Stream, what did the trick for me was to <strong>disable Spotlight indexing <\/strong>for the <strong>Google Drive File Stream<\/strong> folder, namely <strong>adding it to the list of excluded apps<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Open <strong>System Preferences<\/strong><\/li><li>Go to <strong>Spotlight<\/strong><\/li><li>Select the <strong>Privacy<\/strong> tab<\/li><li>Click on the plus &#8216;+&#8217; sign<\/li><li>Select the <strong>Google Drive File Stream<\/strong> folder<\/li><li>Done!<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>It should look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"928\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2019-07-12-at-10.24.18-1024x928.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2019-07-12-at-10.24.18-1024x928.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2019-07-12-at-10.24.18-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2019-07-12-at-10.24.18-768x696.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2019-07-12-at-10.24.18.png 1560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Exclude Google Drive File Stream from Spotlight indexing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that I also added my personal drive and the shared drive as well, just for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When installing Google Drive File Stream for macOS for the first time, you should see Loading your files within the app &#8211; along with the sudden realization that your fans spin up and something is running one core of your CPU at 100% load. Aside from Google constantly fixing bugs and pushing updates to improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}