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one drive syncing is too much slow
markh31 Yepp, same thing here. It does not have anything to do with the client side Internet connectivity, but rather seems to have something to do with how the OneDrive accesses and scans files for differences or something. A single Word document at just a few hundred kbs can take several minutes to get uploaded through the OneDrive client.
As I mentioned before, our data has previously been stored on the local computers, with a sync to an old virtual machine acting as a file server and backup storage for client folders (except for on Mac). Of course, we could have moved all the Mac contents over to a Windows Pc through an external harddrive and use the SharePoint migration tool to move it to OneDrive, but that would probably have been more of a hassle, especially in COVID-19 times when we don't go into the office.
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.
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