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one drive syncing is too much slow
zackgeek2: Try Disabling Files On-Demand --> Under OneDrive Settings tab uncheck Files On-Demand option..Wola you would see OneDrive upload/download increased by incredible speed.
We're also experiencing immensely slow upload and download speeds using the OneDrive client, both for Mac and PC, but especially for Mac users. Tested both on and off our VPN client, as well as in numerous Internet configurations (at home, at work), WiFi and cable. Internet connectivity tests shows good speeds (>50MB/s, all the way up to 300MB/s), but still, OneDrive takes forever to even upload a couple of kilobytes in a Word document. This has serious implications as it severely impacts the speed at which we can work with and share files. For example, I just created a 637 kb Word document that I uploaded to my OneDrive for Business that I wanted to share with some colleagues over Teams, document is saved and closed on my computer, no one else has it open, but still, the document takes forever (several minutes) to upload..
netadmin37 I have heard this solution before, but as far as I understand from the "Disable Files on Demand" feature, all your synched folders are then downloaded to the local harddrive. This is obviously not a solution if you have three different SharePoint sites synchronized with several hundred Gigabytes, along with your personal OneDrive with 10's of GB stored. I can't be assumed to go buy a 1TB Macbook Pro just for OneDrive to work on my computer, right?!
Emil_B - are you using a current version of the sync client? Some of the older versions had performance issues. You can try unchecking some folder for sync performance testing. I run sync all day long on my home with 3 Mb down, and 1 Mb up (world's slowest connection). Keep troubleshooting.
Lou_Mickley running macOS version Catalina 10.15.7 and OneDrive client Version 20.169.0823.0006.
Don't really know what is causing it, seems like the file gets locked, or as if there are files being synchronized from one of the sites I have synced via OD that blocks the upload or something. Just did a connectivity check and as seen, I have a 50 MB downlink and 8,8 MB uplink..
Emil_B - hmmm, you have the correct version that is supposed to fix performance issues. A couple other things to consider... Are you syncing thousands of files? MSFT recommends less than 300K limit, but I've seen lots of churn and struggle with over 50K files as it checks statuses. I've set up hundreds of thousands of customer users with hundreds of millions of files without issue, but I can't say the Mac experience has been flawless. I'd raise an issue w/ MSFT and have them help troubleshoot it. Also watch the OneDrive app and see which files it's using/testing/copying to see if that is giving insight.
Emil_B We are also experiencing very slow sync. We were looking at moving to OneDrive for Business from Dropbox but the sync experience is so poor that we may have to pull the plug on doing this. I like a lot of the features of OneDrive for Business but slow sync can dramatically impact work flow and is a deal breaker.
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