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sesslercory
Apr 10, 2023Copper Contributor
OneDrive downloads all files just uploaded
I use Syncbackfree to sync my files from a hard drive to an external drive. I then use OneDrive to upload the files from the external drive to the Cloud. The issue that just started happening is now ...
MikeWWW
Apr 10, 2023Iron Contributor
Since your external drive is not within your local OneDrive folder, it may as well be in another planet. You can either copy the files to your local OneDrive folder directly and/or ensure that Files in Demand is enabled so that the files are not redownloaded. If you don't need those files locally then remove their folder(s) from your sync
sesslercory
Apr 13, 2023Copper Contributor
Mike thanks for your reply. My external drive is where my OneDrive folder is located. I primarily use the files on my external drive and have them uploaded to the cloud as a backup. Currently I do not have Files-On-Demand enabled. If I enable this check box will all of the files I currently have in the OneDrive folder on the external drive be deleted?
- MikeWWWApr 13, 2023Iron ContributorThere's something else going on that I'm not comfortable with. From your description (which is the clearest) it seems that your local sync operation is touching all your files irrespective of changes.
I would not make any recommendations without a clear understanding of what is happening. Also you should have a backup of your OneDrive files besides a cloud sync version.- sesslercoryApr 14, 2023Copper ContributorMike, to give some more clarity. Our company has used Dropbox for several years. We access our files primarily through our external drives. We sync our files via the app both to the cloud and also to our drives. Our company also uses SharePoint and OneDrive and in the last few years we have seen a push to use this and not Dropbox. In the case we do pull the trigger on this at some point (we are not currently because of a minor detail) I have copied all of our files from Dropbox to OneDrive which can also be accessed on our SharePoint site. Our primary setup is through Dropbox, but I want to keep the files on OneDrive up to date in the case we do move over to it. For at least the last year I have maintained this setup on a single external 5tb drive. I make sure Dropbox is up to date then I use a file sync program to copy over only the changes to the OneDrive folder. Until recently I was using SyncToy. I stopped using SyncToy because I didn't like the files it was creating in each folder. So I searched for a new program to accomplish syncing the files in the folders from Dropbox to OneDrive using SyncBackFree. It seems to work very well. The only issue I am having now is after syncing the files and loading OneDrive the OneDrive program sees the changes and then uploads the files to the cloud, but then strangely OneDrive then downloads the files it just uploaded which seems to change the file somehow (even though the name and file size is the same as what's in Dropbox) it does something to the files to make the file sync program think they were changed and so it wants to recopy all of the files it just did from Dropbox over to OneDrive. Then it begins this vicious cycle all over again.
- Mike WilliamsApr 15, 2023Iron Contributor
sesslercory when you say that OneDrive downloads the files again do you mean that they are updated in the OneDrive folder. It would help if you gave path indications for all your file sets.
If the sync tool or something else is touching the files then OneDrive will notice the difference. You should also check your PC clock is accurate.