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one drive syncing is too much slow
Saving a small Word file with 22kB, the file could not be seen on other machines many minutes later. I have an upload speed of 900 MB/s and a Download of 5 GB/s. The other machines tell me onedrive is sync.
I never had such problems with dropbox. With Onedrive the productivity is very bad and if you have changes on a document, it could happen, that the other machine loads an old version of the document.
Additionally many folders did not show, to be synced, but inside the folder all files are green!
What can I do, to use OneDrive for daily work? In the moment it is only usefull for backup of old data.
I always suggest a few things:
- Make sure files on demand is turned on.
- Most of us nearly always have internet access so there is no need to keep copies of all files on our local computers all the time.
- If you have many files shared with many people and someone makes a change, even to a file no-one else is interested in, then that change could go to dozens or hundreds of computers.
- Only use "Always keep on this device" for files you will need when you don't have an internet connection.
- Turn on Storage Sense and have it run every week or two. It will remove files you aren't using so you don't have to use up bandwidth syncing files you don't need.
The only files that should have green status circles are the ones you are currently working on. Most should have the cloud. You may think you are only trying to sync one file but your bandwidth may be taken up syncing every shared file someone else has changed. And even more it will also be syncing for every person the file is shared with in your office.
Once I got the right balance with Files On Demand and Storage Sense, syncing with SharePoint and OneDrive is quick. The files I am working on are usually already on my computers so they open quick and when I finish I don't even notice the syncing.
That is not my problem. I share the files only with two other computer in the same LAN. I have only 3 GB of Data in Onedrive. I want all files offline.
If I create a file and want to continue work on the next machine, I can sit and wait a long time until it appears. That is no way to work with. I used Dropbox before and a new file appears within seconds on all PCs. I want the same with Onedrive.
That is not normal. If I drop a file into my OneDrive in File Explorer it shows up in the cloud pretty much instantly and the same thing the other way around.
I sometimes do a speedtest when things seem to be slow. Internet providers are not always as reliable as they like you to think. I often try things both from home and the office to see if I get the same behavior.
John Twohig It shows up in the cloud, but it did not appear on other machines. If I make a change on one PC and open five minutes later this file with another one, I get the old file version opened. I did not work with the cloud version of the file. I always open the local copy.
My Internet is very reliable. Speedtest says 2295 MB/s, as my Ethernet adapter is limited to 2.5 GBit. My fibre has 8 GBit/s.