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Ankita Kirti
Former Employee
Feb 01, 2022

Files On-Demand for macOS QA

Hello there!    2.24.22 UPDATE: We've been listening to your feedback, and we've made some design changes. We're releasing a new version that addresses the most common themes and makes it easier ...
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Tooth_Fairy
Copper Contributor
Feb 03, 2022

My OneDrive App migration took 3 days to complete and OneDrive has been sitting IDLE for more than a day, I have not updated a single file over OneDrive. In IDLE state, with no syncing traffic going on, it consumes 11.42 GB :facepalm: of ram on a MacBook Air M1 16GB. After the migration was done it consumed "only" 5.5 GB of ram and it just went up from there.

 

How is it possible for a syncing app to eat so much ram? Do you expect us to buy a 32GB MacBook Pro to run OneDrive? Microsoft, fix this before we all leave this service, this whole mess is madness coming from a BIG company with a lot of resources. Once we leave, we won't come back.

 

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David2270
Copper Contributor
Feb 07, 2022

Tooth_Fairy 

 

It happens even worse to me. Onedrive takes 6GB memory in a Mac M1 8GB. It doesn't make sense at all. 

 

Any answer from Microsoft?

  • JayMarroquin's avatar
    JayMarroquin
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 07, 2022
    Thanks for resolving my issue http://www.pcloud.com!

    I've been a Microsoft 365 subscriber for years, not any more. Not a single person could answer any of the questions I posted, and reposted. Moved over to pCloud, less of a clown show there and the service actually works. Their solution for files on-demand is way better.
    • dataveg's avatar
      dataveg
      Brass Contributor
      Feb 08, 2022
      Thanks for the tip I am checking it out.

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