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OneDrive Sync Up Episode 22: File Archive with Trent Green

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StephenRice
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Feb 24, 2026

Your company's OneDrive and SharePoint storage keeps growing — but how much is being actually using? Find out on the latest Sync Up episode where we talk about one of our most requested features: file level archive.

If you've been using site archive to manage cold data, you know the value of moving inactive content to cheaper storage. But sometimes you don't want to archive an entire site — you just need to arch...
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sfiruch
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Feb 25, 2026

My biggest pain point is OneDrive.exe performance when syncing 300k+ files. As a performance-oriented developer I can barely understand why it'd be so slow. Also, people have been complaining about this for years. Still, no improvements. Would love to know if anybody is working on reduced CPU and memory usage - or what the way forward is.

 

Performance is so bad that I started looking for OneDrive alternatives yesterday.