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one drive syncing is too much slow
zackgeek2 Hi - you're trying to use OneDrive sync client to upload quite a large amount of data. This isn't what it is designed for so upload speeds are never going to be huge.
Check your https://www.speedtest.net/ (you mention a good download speed but upload will be significantly slower).
To migrate files to OneDrive you should be using a migration tool which is designed to move data at large capacities. Sharegate or the inbuilt SharePoint migration tool are recommended. The same goes for others on this thread who are migrating.
The SharePoint migration tool can be downloaded from the SharePoint admin centre. Sharegate is a third party software which I highly recommend but it is expensive.
Kotus-Tech The problem for us is that the SharePoint migration tool (which I've successfully used to migrate 1.4 TB of company data into SharePoint sites) isn't available for Mac, and this is a Mac user that's been with the company for 15+ years, so obviously he has a lot of data to migrate on his Macbook Air into his personal OneDrive space..
Emil_B We have used a migration tool to move our data from Dropbox to OneDrive for Business. So all of the data is on OneDrive - it is not being uploaded from our macs. What I observe in testing is that a new file created and added to OneDrive for Business on the computer (a Mac) is very slow to upload - slow enough that it would disrupt our workflow. A folder containing 4 small files took about 15 minutes to upload. A single file took about 5 minutes. Adding a file to OneDrive for Business on the web pretty quickly showed up in the same folder on the Mac but when I selected "keep on this device" it took a very long time for the solid green circle with a check to show up. I think this would drive our staff nuts - all of the waiting on files to sync up.
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markh31 Yepp, same thing here. It does not have anything to do with the client side Internet connectivity, but rather seems to have something to do with how the OneDrive accesses and scans files for differences or something. A single Word document at just a few hundred kbs can take several minutes to get uploaded through the OneDrive client.
As I mentioned before, our data has previously been stored on the local computers, with a sync to an old virtual machine acting as a file server and backup storage for client folders (except for on Mac). Of course, we could have moved all the Mac contents over to a Windows Pc through an external harddrive and use the SharePoint migration tool to move it to OneDrive, but that would probably have been more of a hassle, especially in COVID-19 times when we don't go into the office.
Emil_B I have continued to try to migrate us to OneDrive for Business but think I am going to pull the plug in the morning. The desktop client for OneDrive for Business is just not up to handling large amounts of data plain and simple. I don't understand how a company as big as Microsoft could have such a terrible desktop client. We were trying to come from Dropbox to OneDrive for Business and used a migration tool to get our data from Dropbox to OneDrive for Business. That worked fine. But trying to get the desktop client for our Mac to sync and work as expected has proved unworkable. The slowness of the desktop client will impact work flow. Additionally, it seems to use a large amount of CPU often which will impact battery life. Even trying to select only certain folders to be represented on my Mac has proved difficult. Has just been a miserable experience overall - we will just stick with Dropbox.
Microsoft really needs to step up to plate and fix this.
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