I am having the same issues, huge battery drain such that the app is not usable. This issue means I can’t use it on my mac and need to find another solution.
Hello @kabeervohra, could you let me know if Insync was doing a large sync job at the time it was taking up a lot of resources?
No this happens on login every time, even though no files have changed. As people have mentioned in this chat since 2018! I have paid for this, when will this be fixed as it’s completely disgraceful that every time I login to my brand new M2 pro, it slows down and removes 2% of battery every time.
@kabeervohra My apologies for the long-standing issue that the Mac community has been experiencing! 
We don’t have a timeline on the fix yet as we are putting much of our focus on Encryption. I will check with our engineers again what our approach would be for this bug.
The battery and CPU being destroyed is a fundamental issue with the software being usable or not, and is much more important that encryption. Rescanning everything on reboot is unnecessary, furthermore there needs to be some kind of limit when doing the rescan on CPU consumption because it can’t just go and take all the CPU of the machine every time it scans
Batteries can be replaced on a laptop; but you cannot replace the drives without un-soldering and soldering them; which can have mixed results. This is an issue because if the program uses more memory than the computer has, it will use the ssd as memory. And this will wear out the ssd faster. If the ssd goes on newer mac’s ; you either pay to have a new one soldered on and hope that it works; or you buy a new motherboard/computer. This is not an ideal situation.
got the same problem, on iMac and Macbook. It seems, as would there be no Cache-deletion, as for time the consumed amount of RAM rises.
insync is running at startup in background. if i am correct, you’Re using PYTHON. This could not be an insync-related Problem, but a python not releasing cache problem 
restarting insync resolves the RAM-Usage, but after two to three weeks, there will be a usage of multiple gigabytes. currently i sync on that specific machine about 17600 files with a total amount of 108gb. The RAM-consumption after an reboot of 28.10. is about 1.5gb.
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I am having the same issue of extremely high CPU usage, causing my Macbook Air M1 to be super slow. Hoping this issue can be fixed soonest possible.
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So this is not good. A ridiculous amount of memory usage.
@Mac_Sims Hi! This is definitely not good as it is hogging your resources! Does the memory leak happen even when Insync is running idle (i.e. no sync activity)?
It happens at idle, but at a much slower rate than when it is syncing files/folders. I ended up just restarting the app every day, as by the end of the day I would hit 10+ GB usage. It’s a very badly coded piece of software. Since this has been an issue for years as can be seen throughout the forums, I suspect their main mac coder has resigned some time ago and the app has been left to languish, with some minor changes made but nothing significant to try fix this problem.
Hi @Rob_euk!
I am terribly sorry to hear that you’ve needed to restart Insync every day due to the memory leak issue.
Our Mac Team has revisited this long-standing issue in the past, but one main factor with these kinds of issues is its level of replicability. We initially had a promising lead regarding Insync’s interaction with Time Machine, but unfortunately after the improvements were released, the issue eventually resurfaced.
Another user shared that the memory leak happens with Carbon Copy Cloner task running - is there any chance you have this on your machine as well?
No I do not have carbon copy cloner installed. I previously sent through logs as well so you can see the data dump.
@Rob_euk, thank you for confirming! I was able to trace the logs that you previously sent to my teammate.
Rest assured that we will continue to look into this memory leak issue so we can finally put it to rest. Constantly restarting Insync is definitely not sustainable (especially if you have to wait for it to finish scanning, you’re in the middle of a large sync, etc).
Thank you for your patience!
If this problem is every fixed after 1 year having had the license, will we get a free update, or will we have to purchase another license to get the problem fixed?
Hi @Rob_euk, assuming that this is the license found on https://www.insynchq.com/pricing, then you do not need to purchase another one when the memory leak issue has been fixed in a new version. The once-paid license includes version upgrades already. Hope that helps!
Experiencing this as well syncing with Google Drive on Macbook Pro Intel. It was an issue with MacOS 14 and still an issue 15.0 Beta.
Hi @harty83, could you confirm if this issue persists even when Insync is running idle (i.e., no files are being synced)?
It seems to be over time. Ill notice my Mac struggling, check activity monitor, and its always insync taking up significant amount of RAM. When I check, it’s not actively syncing. So ill close it and then over time it goes back to using up a lot of ram.
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