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Re: Are the dev for onedrive for mac stupid？
Mike Williams Thanks again. First I apologize for the title I used in the first place. It was not the real me. It was a person who wasted 5 days to test and was blinded by anger. 1,000,000 files just a just an inflated number. I also have a personal account with only 25,575 files, about 30GB, this is definitely within Microsoft's recommendations. This account also has the same issue. Network connection and small size files should be the factor. However, I use the remote cloud machine which is located in the US to avoid the impact of network connection speed and VPN, a little bit better, but not good enough. I could not control the file size. Most files are needed sync, just need to sync to the different machines. I usually modify the data on one machine, then sync to others，sometimes，opposite. The root of this problem is that Onedriver opens the file on-Demand by default. as soon as logs in, sync all files will start, but it gets stuck there. And users can do nothing on it. For me, add the account to a new machine, that's a nightmare. Alway stuck there. I have a workaround, which I feel very stupid. on my main machine, move all folders from onedrive folders. (Same machine, same driver, should be quick. ) One driver will delete everything on every machine. Add the account to a new machine, sync, then close files on-demand, only select one folder or one file. Then move all folders back on the main machine. on each machine, change the setting, select sync folders. I “created” hundreds of gigabytes of Internet traffic. If the product manager can let the user select the sync folder first, the data transferred will be reduced and the chance of getting stuck will be reduced. I may delete this post soon. Thanks.Re: Are the dev for onedrive for mac stupid？
Hi, Mike Williams Thank you for your reply. I use this product for about 5 or 6 years. I have both windows machines (Cloud and physical) and a Mac machine. I set the sync between those machines. One machine as the main server, keep all files on that, and other machines only sync a few folders as I need different files in different machines. In my main server, There are 502GB data in my business account, 195,614 files in it. Trust me, I do not need training on how to set sync. MacOS: 10.15.6. OneDrive: 20.084.0426.0007 Both business and personal onedrive keep sync status, but no files can be truly synced. First, I am thinking it's the Chinese Great firewall block the sync, I tried SG / US VPN, still the same result, after 2 days waiting, I realize that will never work. Then I checked the articles to troubleshooting the issue. Uninstall/reinstall. Reset Onedrive. File On-demand is the key here. Onedrive set it as default and start sync immediately when you first log in. Onedrive will read / sync all files name to your local machines, only the file name, but not download it. If there are 1,000 files, it's OK, read the folder structure and file name is an easy job. But if there are a huge number of files, for example, 1,000,000, read the filename will get stuck. And you can not change the sync setting (unselect those folders you do not want sync now), because the sync process is not finished, an endless loop. That's why I would like to ask MS that please Let the user select sync folder, select File on Demand or not, then start the sync. If they can do that, I must take my hat off to them.Are the dev for onedrive for mac stupid？
I was so disappointed about this product that I registered this account and posted it here. This is my first post, and I'd like to say that If my company didn't need to use this software, I would never use it by myself. Ok, now let me describe the problem。 When you first log in on a MAC, all files need sync to the local machine, then you can modify the setting to select which folder you need sync, which you do not need sync. If you have huge data in onedrive, it will be stuck there. keep updating, keep sync. 99% will fail. I just want sync a folder to this MAC machine, why this is so hard? Are you really use this product in your daily work? The easy way to solve this is to allow the user to modify the sync setting when the sync suspended. OR the following workflow. install software. log in to account, read all data （maybe only folder structure）in the cloud. select which folders you would like to sync. select how to treat your data - download them all, or just keep them on the cloud. Confirm and then sync all data you selected. Hope someone can read this post. I don't hold out much hope because I know how quickly big companies respond to customer feedback. I just wanted to vent my anger that I've been syncing for 10 days and my data still hasn't been synced to my Mac. This is not one guy's request, I can see this on a lot of Chinese forum and English forum. I am
