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"OneDrive Is Updating Files" never ends and has high CPU
Mike Williams: 300K files is not that much. My main workload are memory dumps and ETL files which comes with thousands of pdbs per zip. The previous product I used was Synplicity which allowed me to skip .pdb, .dmp, .etl from syncing. I always get compressed files so I can easily sync the compressed files and unzip them locally.
With OneDrive For Business the world was simplified. Now everything is synced and I cannot prevent it. I did ask our IT and they said that feature is there but only at tennant level.
In the new world it looks like I need to copy the data again somewhere else and uncompress them before OneDrive gets a chance to overflow.
How can I check with OneDrive how many files I have in the cloud? The Storage explorer only shows files sizes but not counts.
If I look at the ObfuscationStringMap.txt file I find 174647 lines which should mean that I have at least so many files.
AloisKraus wrote
"Now everything is synced and I cannot prevent it. I did ask our IT and they said that feature is there but only at tennant level. " You can choose which folders to sync at the client level.
"How can I check with OneDrive how many files I have in the cloud? " Sure, I'll google that for you too: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-for-business-how-count-number-of-files/a1c508ff-6eba-422a-8c04-efcc2b285573
Mike Williams: I think you underestimate the mental capabilities of paying customers. The googled linked answer was valid until the site design was changed.
See attached screenshot. The "new" way is to open the context menu to show the Manage Storage view but this shows only file sizes but not the file counts.
Do you have an answer to my question which is not outdated?
AloisKraus You're on a public forum and just get other members of the public like me who don't have a crossword puzzle within reach during a coffee break. If you want someone to pay attention to you as a paying customer then you need to contact Microsoft Support.
I found the answer from the link I provided worked quite well on both my OfB account and personal OneDrive. The Site Contents does show #files for each Doclib. It is not the same page as the site Storage Metrics.
