Windows 10: The OneDrive seems to keep on syncing forever

The OneDrive seems to keep on syncing forever, even though nothing happens and it doesn´t finish.

:)

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.

 

OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync




"At Ignite 2016, Microsoft has just announced that it is bringing Placeholders back to OneDrive on Windows 10. Now, they are not called Placeholders anymore — Microsoft is renaming the feature to “On-Demand Sync” which makes a lot more sense than “Placeholders”.

The company demoed this feature at Microsoft Ignite today, and it works just like it used to previously. As you can see in the screenshot above, the files stored in OneDrive weighed in around 9GB, but the actual size on disk was only around 3MB which is really neat. Of course, this feature isn’t anything new as it was available back in the Windows 8 days. However, Microsoft removed the feature with Windows 10, and after lots of waiting, they are finally coming back.

In case you are not familiar with OneDrive Placeholders, it’s a pretty neat feature which lets you see all of your OneDrive files on your computer — but they are not actually downloaded on your PC. When you open them, OneDrive will download the files on-demand, saving your local space which is really useful, especially if you have a PC that doesn’t have a lot of storage.

While Microsoft didn’t announce when exactly On-Demand Sync will be available to OneDrive users, we suspect it will be available with Windows 10 Redstone 2 — which is expected to arrive early next year. "

https://mspoweruser.com/onedrive-placeholders-coming-back-now-called-demand-sync/

 

OneDrive not Syncing

OneDrive seems to be forever syncing. Hovering above the OneDrive icon in the Task pane it consistently says "Processing 1353 changes".

Some files have not been synced for months. The blue circular arrows are present next to these files.

When I right click on the OneDrive icon in the Task pane it show a long list of files Headed "OneDrive is updating files..."

I have three other PCs on my network which seem to be syncing fine. But it is a nuisance when I try to open a file on this PC which I may have changed on another PC but the file hasn't updated on this one! And confusing when files I update on this PC doesn't
get synced to OneDrive!!

Basically the syncing on this PC is broken. How do I fix it and synchronise all the files?

Thanking you in advance for your assistance.

Anton.