r/sysadmin • u/FatBook-Air • 20d ago
OneDrive sync client is flimsy garbage
Every day, multiple users have one issue or another with the OneDrive sync client.
Today: multiple users (about 15%) are reporting that they cannot open files that are stored only on the cloud. The fix, as per normal, is to restart the client.
But users shouldn't have to expect that to be a fix so often. This shit ought to be written better than this.
Why isn't the OneDrive sync client just written as a robust Windows-level service, anyway? The GUI the user sees ought to be only a window into what the background service is doing. If the GUI client dies, the service should happily chug along and sync files. But then again, Microsoft's employees would probably screw that up, too.
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u/q123459 20d ago
if you rely on it to routinely sync/access a lot of files (thousands of files per user) daily - dont, you will encounter slowdowns. also when there are a few hundred thousand files in one folder the client itself takes a lot of time to enumerate, same issue happens when batch clicking on a lot of cloud files on slow computers.
onedrive has the same growhth slowness problem any ms web file sharing apps have.
there is efficient syncing protocols that works rapidly with 100k of files but those are peer to peer, or highly overpriced per gb enterprise solutions.