tl;dr OneDrive is making my Mac extremely slow, is there any way to make OneDrive work properly on Macs?
Due to company (school) policies based on GDPR rules, we are forced to use OneDrive for all files that contains student information.
Now, I do agree, in principle, that we should keep student information (and other stuff) safe, but I'm very sceptical about using OneDrive which, traditionally, have been performing really poorly on Mac. And even if most of our faculty are using Macs, minus some programs (like IT and 3D/games), but the administration is "in love" with Office 365, including Teams and OneDrive and want us to use that.
So, I was beginning the new semester yesterday by, migrating all school/class related files to the OneDrive directory on my Mac to sync it to the MS Cloud. Most of it resided in iCloud or Dropbox and have been syncing happily and safely for ages, but early on I got one zillion Sync Errors. It seems there is a lot of characters that iCloud and Dropbox (and GitHub) are fine with that are deemed "dangerous" by Microsoft...
Now, about 30 hours after the sync started with 10GB stuff, it still has about 6GB left to sync, and it keeps logging out of my OneDrive account every hour or so. And to make matters worse OneDrive is slowing my Mac to a grind by taking up about 30 GB (!) of memory (on a Mac with 8 GB RAM), constantly accessing a hefty 15 GB Swap disk. (See screen shot below.) All other apps (and I've reduced open apps to Safari, Pages and Music) are sluggish as ... well a slug.
I'm guessing I'll have everything up and running by Friday, and then I can start using the machine properly again.
Now back in the middle Ages (pre OS X) you could actually pull up the Get Info window on Apps and restrict how much RAM it was allowed to gobble up. That would have been very handy right about now, but I don't think that is possible anymore?
Any other - with OneDrive experience - that can help me make the app more, shall we say, well behaved?
Due to company (school) policies based on GDPR rules, we are forced to use OneDrive for all files that contains student information.
Now, I do agree, in principle, that we should keep student information (and other stuff) safe, but I'm very sceptical about using OneDrive which, traditionally, have been performing really poorly on Mac. And even if most of our faculty are using Macs, minus some programs (like IT and 3D/games), but the administration is "in love" with Office 365, including Teams and OneDrive and want us to use that.
So, I was beginning the new semester yesterday by, migrating all school/class related files to the OneDrive directory on my Mac to sync it to the MS Cloud. Most of it resided in iCloud or Dropbox and have been syncing happily and safely for ages, but early on I got one zillion Sync Errors. It seems there is a lot of characters that iCloud and Dropbox (and GitHub) are fine with that are deemed "dangerous" by Microsoft...
Now, about 30 hours after the sync started with 10GB stuff, it still has about 6GB left to sync, and it keeps logging out of my OneDrive account every hour or so. And to make matters worse OneDrive is slowing my Mac to a grind by taking up about 30 GB (!) of memory (on a Mac with 8 GB RAM), constantly accessing a hefty 15 GB Swap disk. (See screen shot below.) All other apps (and I've reduced open apps to Safari, Pages and Music) are sluggish as ... well a slug.
I'm guessing I'll have everything up and running by Friday, and then I can start using the machine properly again.
Now back in the middle Ages (pre OS X) you could actually pull up the Get Info window on Apps and restrict how much RAM it was allowed to gobble up. That would have been very handy right about now, but I don't think that is possible anymore?
Any other - with OneDrive experience - that can help me make the app more, shall we say, well behaved?