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bschmiedelertempconnet
Jan 17, 2025Copper Contributor
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 O...
MartinGM
Jan 24, 2025Copper Contributor
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.