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Iron Contributor

Mar 18, 2019

OneDrive Client, Files on Demand and Syncing large libraries

I thought I'd post some observations regarding the OneDrive sync client we've observed that aren't documented anywhere but we needed to figure out when planning a massive move to SharePoint from on-p...

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JonasBack

Steel Contributor

Feb 18, 2020

There's a lot of good knowledge in this thread - keep them coming.

So basically, if you have a huge library with 1 million files you will probably run into problems. If you decided to split them into 20 of them with 50k each you will be better off. But if a user decides they need to sync (even though just on-demand) all 20 of them, the user will still run into problems because the total volume of files sync'ed on this particular user's computer is 1 million?

dimitrispavl1400

Copper Contributor

Feb 19, 2020

JonasBack indeed.

Microsoft says that OneDrive supports 100k files max (in one library) and 300K files max synced over different libraries.

My experience tells though that you should stay well below these limits in order to have proper syncing.

Of course giving users laptops with better CPUs/more memory (i7/16GB) also helps but this is is not a proper solution.