I use it because of work but now and then it starts to eat up my RAM
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OneDrive is a piece of **** software
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I use it because of work but now and then it starts to eat up my RAM
It will improve over time, but right now it's slow. That leads to a problem with the app "letting go" and saving your work. It insists that a file or files remain open, when they are not. After convincing myself that clicking "discard changes" was safe, and having no problems afterwards several times, it decided to make good on the threat. I lost a whole day's work.
Does anyone there an good alternative to OneDrive that will sync OneDrive files and works better? I see a few in the App Store and online but I'm not sure if they're any good.
If may not make sense for your workflow but you could always try just running the app to update files then quitting.
If may not make sense for your workflow but you could always try just running the app to update files then quitting.
OK so I got my M1 Mini yesterday and the only application, that I need for work and that is causing me problems is onedrive 
It seems to be stuck in a perpetual sync, and is actually uppdating folders, it’s just really slow and because of the perpetual sync I can open files (that have synced) maybe 1 out of 4 attempts. Another difference, other than the hardware change is that my first post was in Catalina and the M1 runs Big Sur.
The rest of office works, AutoCAD works currently only OneDrive is a hindrance ><
It seems to be stuck in a perpetual sync, and is actually uppdating folders, it’s just really slow and because of the perpetual sync I can open files (that have synced) maybe 1 out of 4 attempts. Another difference, other than the hardware change is that my first post was in Catalina and the M1 runs Big Sur.
The rest of office works, AutoCAD works currently only OneDrive is a hindrance ><
Not sure why you give it 4 stars. It's pretty awful.
The number of issues with this app never ceases to amaze. If there's one app you don't want to be riddled with bugs, it's a file syncing app. But OneDrive isn't close to beta status, even. I've never seen anything like it.
If it's any consolation, the Windows version(s) were craptastic about five years ago. I tried to get a small business set up on OneDrive as part of a project to move them to shared storage in the cloud for multiple Windows PCs, centrally managed login IDs, and get them set up on maintained (updates) Office for Windows licenses.
OneDrive (Personal)
OneDrive for Business
Two different beasts, and the business one actually is(was?) a sharepoint connection not working the same way as the personal one.
So, my poor customer was having to use two different OneDrive login IDs because she had started using a personal one for her old Personal Office license, and we had set up a new login name and password for the onmicrosoft domain based OneDrive for Business. AND, she had her iCloud password for her phone and mail... AND she had her old Dropbox ID and password.
It was so confusing we gave up and she reverted the business file storage back to Dropbox.
OneDrive (Personal)
OneDrive for Business
Two different beasts, and the business one actually is(was?) a sharepoint connection not working the same way as the personal one.
So, my poor customer was having to use two different OneDrive login IDs because she had started using a personal one for her old Personal Office license, and we had set up a new login name and password for the onmicrosoft domain based OneDrive for Business. AND, she had her iCloud password for her phone and mail... AND she had her old Dropbox ID and password.
It was so confusing we gave up and she reverted the business file storage back to Dropbox.
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You could try cloudHQ
I haven't tried it myself for this application, but it lets me sync my Evernote with my Google Drive.
I have been using MountainDuck for a number of years, and it works well for me. It isn't perfect, but much much better than OneDrive natively. https://mountainduck.io. They have a free trial.
For historical reasons, I have DropBox, pCloud and MEGA.
Of all of them, I like MEGA the best because it runs on all my OS's, including all versions of macOS up to and including Big Sur, Windows, various versions of Linux and even my Raspberry Pi.
MEGA used to be owned and run by a bloke called Kim Dotcom, but it is now owned and supervised by the New Zealand Government.
Of all of them, I like MEGA the best because it runs on all my OS's, including all versions of macOS up to and including Big Sur, Windows, various versions of Linux and even my Raspberry Pi.
MEGA used to be owned and run by a bloke called Kim Dotcom, but it is now owned and supervised by the New Zealand Government.
Long time user of OneDrive on Windows 7/8/10, macOS, iOS, and Android. Your summarization is 100% accurate.
I used OneDrive on my PC before I switched to MAC. So have some GB of documents there. Today I wanted to erase those files in my OneDrive folder on my Mac and everything freezes or is just damn slow. Will rather buy some extra storage on iCloud Drive. It's way more responsive.
I'll continue my ode against this software that I have to use because of work.
As I said in the first post OneDrive used to act up some times and just gobble up RAM.
Now since this summer the behavior has changed. OneDrive has (so far) not started to eat my RAM. Now it instead trigger a distnoted process to start eating my RAM and some CPU time.
At least the triggering of distnoted is easier to handle, when I see that the CPU temp start to hang around a toasty 40°C and memory pressure starts to go up I just open activity manager sort by CPU usage and kill the misbehaving distnoted process.
There problem solved until the next reboot (I turn the computer off at the end of every day).
OndDrive still is ****!
As I said in the first post OneDrive used to act up some times and just gobble up RAM.
Now since this summer the behavior has changed. OneDrive has (so far) not started to eat my RAM. Now it instead trigger a distnoted process to start eating my RAM and some CPU time.
At least the triggering of distnoted is easier to handle, when I see that the CPU temp start to hang around a toasty 40°C and memory pressure starts to go up I just open activity manager sort by CPU usage and kill the misbehaving distnoted process.
There problem solved until the next reboot (I turn the computer off at the end of every day).
OndDrive still is ****!
I have an account at Microsoft onedrive.
It's a free account, so only a limited amount of space is available, but I do use it.
HOWEVER...
I don't use the onedrive app/software.
Instead, when I need to access the site, I log in with a browser and do "manual file management" that way. Then I sign off.
Works fine for me.
It's a free account, so only a limited amount of space is available, but I do use it.
HOWEVER...
I don't use the onedrive app/software.
Instead, when I need to access the site, I log in with a browser and do "manual file management" that way. Then I sign off.
Works fine for me.
I do run One Drive. I do see that I have 32 distnoted processes running. I guess I should disable One Drive and reboot to see it it's responsible.
Each process is owned by a different user (almost all system users). Only the process owned my me and _distnote itself ever gets above 0.0 %CPU. Those two seem to be stable at 0.1 %CPU.
Each process is owned by a different user (almost all system users). Only the process owned my me and _distnote itself ever gets above 0.0 %CPU. Those two seem to be stable at 0.1 %CPU.
Not a good option since I use OneDrive for work, to cumbersome when working on shared documents to move them back and forth.
I will be trying that on my Mac. I also will try it on a Windows 10 PC that I'm going to do "web only" Microsoft Office on. I'm seriously contemplating dropping my paid Office 365 subscription and going free version only.
1st, Turn OFF files on demand;
2nd, Thank me at your convenience.
OneDrive files on demand has never worked properly on a Mac (CPU and RAM spikes and hogs) and I now doubt it ever will.
2nd, Thank me at your convenience.
OneDrive files on demand has never worked properly on a Mac (CPU and RAM spikes and hogs) and I now doubt it ever will.
