i have a good connection but still the syncing is very slow 😞 (25KBi have searched for issues but nothing is helpful any help please

It is fairly shocking how this is still an issue after so many years. A SharePoint/OneDrive locally syncing setup basically cannot function as a file server with users actively collaborating and should not be represented as such.Unless your business can operate exclusively on the web-based platform, you will likely experience a decrease in productivity from making the switch to SharePoint/OneDrive. Sync times for minuscule file sizes are still in the order of 2-5 minutes, regardless of network activity or internet speeds.We ran a side-by-side live performance comparison with Dropbox, and it wasn't even close. It's basically always near-instantaneous on Dropbox and minutes on SharePoint/OneDrive. To confirm, this is with under 300K synced files on both platforms (there's actually more on Dropbox than SharePoint/OneDrive in our testing). Clearly something needs to improve with OneDrive.

jsanchez1 Our company moved form dropbox to onedrive and since then it has been a real hassle to work with. For any little file we add to the local onedrive, the sync take forever. Have to wait at least 5min to get a link for one picture, I'm not even speaking about sync a big amount of files. This is so time consuming and ruins all productivity. At that point I don't even understand how a company would chose onedrive over concurrent services.

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.

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. mark

One Drive is a joke. Especially with data drive files. They normally recommend you don't have files bigger than 300K in your One Drive, and that is way too small for database system. Discounts happen all the time, that can be a disaster for database files and indexes. Do not use One Drive for anything but static, uploaded files to share. We don't use it any longer at all.

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netadmin37
Copper Contributor
Sep 16, 2020
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.
- panthibabu
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 20, 2021
  Thanks netadmin37. Works like a charm...
- Emil_B
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 05, 2020
  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?!
  - markh31
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 09, 2020
    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.
    
    mark
Lou_Mickley
Brass Contributor
Mar 18, 2020
zackgeek2 What type of slowness are you seeing? Slow network speed, or OneDrive sync client just sitting and showing "Looking for changes"? If looking for changes, it's often you are trying to sync too many files. Try to keep it under 300K files total (across all sources). How many files do you have? It is OneDrive files or SharePoint doc lib being synced? Are you running the latest sync client? Give me more info.
- MikeBarakhman
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 25, 2021
  Lou_Mickley
  I have the same issue. The OneDrive window always shows and changes the number of changes being in progress, but the upper 4-5 files in the window remain "0 Uploaded" and the file of 22Mb only in size I need to be upload more then 2 hours ago is still in "Sync pending" status.
  How can I see these processes? and why does it take so long?
  I have FTTH, for reference.
  Thanks for assistance
- zackgeek2
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 18, 2020
  Lou_Mickley thank you for your reply 😉
  it is a slow network speed
  my one drive is updating files from my computer
  i'm trying to upload 5.6GB of files (237 files); and the uploading is really slow ( 51,6KB/s to 100KB/s) normally if i want to download a 6GB of files i download them at a rate of (1MB/s)
  look this image if it can help you ; and thanks for your help
  - jsanchez1
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 24, 2020
    we setup also an application on one drive / sharepoint and it doesnt sync fast enough i dont know what else to do... zackgeek2

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