What Is The 'dbfseventsd' Process on Mac

The 'dbfseventsd' process on Mac is associated with Dropbas and its name stands for 'Dropbox File System Events Daemon.' As such, not every Mac user will have this process running on their computers. Those that have Dropbox installed, however, need the 'dbfseventsd' process running in the background to make sure that changes made to their local Dropbox folder are being synced up with the cloud. 

Usually, the process remains unnoticed mostly, as it takes up a really small portion of the system's resources. Under rare circumstances, 'dbfseventsd' process may start hogging up an abnormal amount of either the CPU cycles or the RAM. To check if this is indeed the case, open the Activity Monitor tool that comes built-in with macOS.

1. Open Applications. Then 'Utilities.' Find and launch Activity Monitor.
2. Type 'dbfseventsd' in the search bar to find the process. 
3. Select it.
4. Click on the 'Quit Process' option in the toolbar.

This should force the process to relaunch. If even after quitting and restarting it, 'dbfseventsd' continue to display the same abnormal use of resources, then try quitting Dropbox itself. 

1. Click the Dropbox icon in the menu bar.
2. Click on your account profile. Select 'Quit.'
3. Relaunch Dropbox by double-clicking it from the Applications folder. 

If everything else fails, restart the entire Mac and see if that has helped solve the issue.