Forum Discussion
One Drive processing over 75K changes (Macintosh)...
This morning I noticed my One Drive folder in my DocK start to "jump" every 10 seconds or so. I investigated and the One Drive app was processing over 75K changes. I have not touched any file on my One Drive in a few weeks. I upgraded to the latest Mac OS Sequoia Beta about 1 week ago (not the one that just came out yesterday). This is odd behavior, IMHO. It doesn't look like there are any changes to the files, or changes to the update dates. I believe if MS or Apple changed something in the meta data of a file, that that changes might cause this behavior. Or if you "reset" OneDrive. In either case it is processing changes that are really not changes to the files, correct?
I also read that MS is adding (unwanted in my opinion) AI features to 365. Could that be causing some behind the scene changes?
Weird.
Bryan
Me too - this started on 18 January on my laptop - 166,000 updates and about 350GB of data.
Fearful of losing files, I paused OneDrive on my wife's PC which Synchs to the same data set.
18 hours later, when my update was finished, I unpaused her OneDrive and off it went. Being a slower processor it took over 24 hours.
I since found we had both lost one critical file - about a day's work to redo the work.
What is the point of a backup system that is LESS reliable than the base system ? I'm going back to external hard drives for my backups - simpler and more reliable - unless I can find another cloud service.
Hi Bryan,
You might have a Sharepoint or another user's OneDrive folder sycned? that might have cause the large number of changes.
And regarding your question, you are correct, the changes it's processing are metadata and other properties of the files to check it has the latest version or update.
