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Which is better optimized for mac OS, OneDrive or Google Drive?

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Kraizelburg

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Hi, I have both cloud services Microsoft OneDrive and Google drive in my PC and phone but for some reason I think they are not as efficient in mac as the windows version.

Any thoughts in terms of battery, performance, etc?

thanks
 
Kraizelburg said:
Onedrive works great in windows I dont know why you say it works terrible.
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Well, to be fair it's been a long time since I tried, but last I did, it had random spikes of using 100% CPU for no reason, and continuing like that until it was killed. I've talked to others with the same issue, and both operating systems
 
I had some issues with non-compliant file names in Onedrive so opted to just use iCloud Drive instead. Now that OneDrive has finally implemented "Files on demand" for Mac, I'm considering moving back.
 
Have you guys noticed any performance hit in terms of battery life between both services?

I'm probably a bit OCD talking about battery sucking apps haha.
 
DavoteK said:
I've had both running, no issue. Its just file storage/syncing at the end of the day.
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Yeah. I personally have Dropbox, GDrive and iCloud all at once. Though iCloud is the only one that's constantly on. The other services get launched on demand when I need to upload/download

Kraizelburg said:
Have you guys noticed any performance hit in terms of battery life between both services?

I'm probably a bit OCD talking about battery sucking apps haha.
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As mentioned, a couple of years ago, I had issues with OneDrive stealing a full CPU core 100% but it's probably resolved
 
Kraizelburg said:
Have you guys noticed any performance hit in terms of battery life between both services?

I'm probably a bit OCD talking about battery sucking apps haha.
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In the past couple of months, I've had issues where the OneDrive app went nuts and maxed out one CPU entirely for no obvious reason. I had to quit the app and leave it quit until I was able to restart the computer. Every time I launched OneDrive, the CPU utilization would go way up again.
 
chrfr said:
In the past couple of months, I've had issues where the OneDrive app went nuts and maxed out one CPU entirely for no obvious reason. I had to quit the app and leave it quit until I was able to restart the computer. Every time I launched OneDrive, the CPU utilization would go way up again.
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Alas, I was not the only one
 
I use DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud.

I too can confirm that at times OneDrive can spike and be a bit heavy on resources. I use Google drive pretty heavily and it isn't as light and nimble as it used to be, but still very solid. I've found iCloud too unpredictable that I don't rely on it for anything more than syncing Notes. The lightest (in impact to the system) and most responsive for me has been DropBox.

If the choice is between Google Drive and OneDrive... I'd choose Google Drive.
 
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Oddly I've noticed more secondary processes running in google drive than onedrive, also looking at system monitor it seems google drive sucks a little bit more energy.

I think I'll install onedrive as I have 30GB storage and new on demand funcionality is great.
 
No problems with Onedrive on either Windows 10 or MacOS. I prefer it over Google services simply because Google's "Backup and Sync" is a bit hyperactive and wants to backup and sync everything, then bugs me everytime I want to delete a file.
 
I've had OneDrive running on Windows 7 and 10 for quite a while but no longer do because it went full retard on me several times, and frankly I simply got sick of it. In all fairness I should add though that this was in early 2015. I've been avoiding it ever since though, and I've never used it on macOS so I can't comment on that. My wife uses it on her iPhone to backup photos and sync them with her Windows laptop, and she's seems quite happy.

I've tried Google Drive once on Chrome OS and Windows, and it worked pretty well in the short time we've had together. I know my dad uses it to exchange files between his Android smartphone and his Mac Mini as well as making regular backups of his most important documents, and I haven't heard any complaints for a very long time. It was a bit of a mess to setup but once we've had it up and running it's been quietly doing its job.

Personally, I use Dropbox (free) for my important stuff and iCloud Drive (200 GB $2,99/month plan) for everything else on my Macs because Dropbox is much more reliable than any other Cloud service I have ever encountered. iCloud Drive gets confused every time I have to logout of iCloud and log back in on either my iMac or my MacBook because it stopped synchronizing Safari tabs, and then tends to present me with several versions of my files and claims to have identified hundreds of conflicts. In addition, even the free Dropbox plan already has a number of features I consider a must for Cloud storage that Apple does not offer, such as folder sharing or a file version history. I've been using it for many years on macOS, Windows, and Linux and never had a single issue.
 
They recently released an update to OneDrive which supposedly fixes the 100% CPU usage issue... and in my experience it seems to have actually fixed the problem.
 
Fuchal said:
They recently released an update to OneDrive which supposedly fixes the 100% CPU usage issue... and in my experience it seems to have actually fixed the problem.
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I haven't seen any 100% CPU usage spikes actually it runs with slightly lower RAM and CPU than google drive.
 
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Kraizelburg said:
Hi, I have both cloud services Microsoft OneDrive and Google drive in my PC and phone but for some reason I think they are not as efficient in mac as the windows version.

Any thoughts in terms of battery, performance, etc?

thanks
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I use Onedrive and Google Drive a little. I have used Dropbox instead of my documents folder for 10 years plus.
It is fast, stable, easy to copy links to paste into emails, has a good versions setup and keeps my computers and iDevices with the same documents available. You can choose to see all your documents while storing some online only to save space on your devices. Client find the link download easy to use. There are many other features I've not mention.
 
Greg Baddeley said:
I use Onedrive and Google Drive a little. I have used Dropbox instead of my documents folder for 10 years plus.
It is fast, stable, easy to copy links to paste into emails, has a good versions setup and keeps my computers and iDevices with the same documents available. You can choose to see all your documents while storing some online only to save space on your devices. Client find the link download easy to use. There are many other features I've not mention.
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Thanks for the advice I used to have Dropbox but I moved to onedrive and google drive due to integration with android and windows 10, I'm not a 100% mac used only 1 laptop the rest are either windows or android.

Anyway I think all functionalities you have mentioned are available in any big cloud storage. In real world there is no real differences between one and the other except pricing and some little things.
 
I don't have a Mac device but I prefer OneDrive to Google. I don't know why but Google Drive was simply too complicated for me, plus the whole integration thing. My Youtube channel got suspended and with that, all of the Google apps including Drive and I had no access to my files.
 
alpi123 said:
I don't have a Mac device but I prefer OneDrive to Google. I don't know why but Google Drive was simply too complicated for me, plus the whole integration thing. My Youtube channel got suspended and with that, all of the Google apps including Drive and I had no access to my files.
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Sorry to hear that. Google products all come in 1 big package (gmail, google drive, youtube, etc)
 
DropBox has the worst performance of the bunch. It observers the file changes on all the disk instead of only the dropbox folder, so it slows down all the disk operations.
 
I know this is a cold thread but, here is my 2 cents;
First I was a dropbox user (BTW I had like ~500GB data with ~800k files on average on all cloud providers).
I wasn't happy with client app resource usage and had problems with big amount of file operations (like mass deletes, mass copies etc.) even on their website.
So I moved to OneDrive for a year (it was coming with free Office 365 after all, it was a bargain with same pricing with dropbox). Then, this happened (See attached screenshot) and all I did was simply; updated the synced folder options. And UI was very very unresponsive all the time, I don't know if it was because of the amount of data I had.
Then I moved to google. Still not very happy with client resource usage but at least it was responsive, options was ok. Best among these 3 so far. I don't know the other 2 had any updates, improvements after I left them but since it is 500GB of data, I kind of am reluctant to test the other 2 again.
 

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emreb said:
I know this is a cold thread but, here is my 2 cents;
First I was a dropbox user (BTW I had like ~500GB data with ~800k files on average on all cloud providers).
I wasn't happy with client app resource usage and had problems with big amount of file operations (like mass deletes, mass copies etc.) even on their website.
So I moved to OneDrive for a year (it was coming with free Office 365 after all, it was a bargain with same pricing with dropbox). Then, this happened (See attached screenshot) and all I did was simply; updated the synced folder options. And UI was very very unresponsive all the time, I don't know if it was because of the amount of data I had.
Then I moved to google. Still not very happy with client resource usage but at least it was responsive, options was ok. Best among these 3 so far. I don't know the other 2 had any updates, improvements after I left them but since it is 500GB of data, I kind of am reluctant to test the other 2 again.
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That is hopefully a memory leak... In itself a memory leak like this is bad, but could you imagine if that's intended behaviour? Plunking all the files from your cloud drive in memory all at once or whatever it might be trying to do.

Also, Rider, DataGrip and Intellij all at once? Heavy project you got going there, haha :p JetBrain makes some really nice IDEs. Intellij is my absolute favourite Java development environment :)
 
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