Option to Pause / Resume sync on Windows
Please add the functionality to pause / resume syncing form the icon in the Notification Area in Windows 7. I believe the version of OneDrive for Windows 8 already has this feature.
This feature is essential for me, and I use it frequently on Dropbox. It is ideal when on a slower internet connection, or when I am gaming online and want as little internet traffic as possible.
[Update: merged Win10 into this idea and changed from Win7 to Win10 as this suggestion will apply to both][
Robin Holligan
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We have completed the roll out of Pause functionality for all business and personal users of OneDrive sync on Windows. Thanks again for the feedback.
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ken
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how do you do this
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Andrew Davies
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Where is this? Pausing OneDrive is still not an option in Windows 10. I'm using OneDrive Version 2016 (Build 17.3.6966.0824).
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Princess Sarah
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GOT IT. THANKS !
Right click on the one drive icon on the taskbar , click pause syncing.
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Anonymous
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Where is the pause sync function gone in Windows 10 for OneDrive?? Why the **** have you removed it?
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Michael
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OneDrive,OneDrive for Business and SharePoint syncing ate 10g of data usage on my Surface LTE on the first three days of my vacation -- costing me over $150 in data overage fees and hours of vacation time trying to figure out w/ ATT & MS tech support what was going on... oh, OneDrive just syncing syncing syncing unchanged files.
Now I have to remember to turn off all three services each time I go off wifi and onto cellular connection, which means finding the icon, right-clicking and pausing or turning off, then forgetting to turm them back on later and wondering why I can't find my files.
Why not a simple OFF/ON ALL CLOUD SERVICES BUTTON? PLEEEESE!
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Anonymous
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A tip on how to find and activate the pause functionality would be very handy... So much time wasted chasing things like this up
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Anonymous
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Once again MS managed to make a great app worse... Why remove the pause sync function...such an important and useful functionality? it is outraging. I am using mobile data on my laptop. This is just stupid! Seriously Microsoft please stop ruining your own work... Just don't touch anything anymore...don't remove the functionalities we need... I am seriously tempted to not use your services anymore...this is so frustrating sometimes!
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su
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This is bollocks. Have just spent hours online with tech to be told it's only available in 8.1 not 10.
Off to dropbox I go - onedrive has used up all my mobile data - never again.
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Anonymous
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Still cant find the pause function. MS please answer or can you credit me when I am roaming and need to hotspot to my phone to get a couple of things from my server and OneDrive decides to sync a couple of G
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Anonymous
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This function has been deleted from Win10.
Now there is no longer the pause in synchronism as before.
It seems that others are also going through the same problem. -
Josh McFadden
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@Needing help with this: it's called Dropbox.
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Needing help with this
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I puased it but now it won't start up again??? Anyone have a fix?
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bs
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On my laptop, I would really like the option that Ondrive would automatically stop syncing when on battery power. Onedrive is the n°1 battery consumer and when in active sync reduces battery autonomy with a couple of hours.
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Emma
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I don't have pause as an option on Windows 10, where is it supposed to appear? Only option to stop a sync that's majorly slowing down laptop and eating up bandwidth is to 'exit' one drive mid-sync.
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Anonymous
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What is odd is sometimes the Pause feature is available if I Right Click on the Onedrive icon, other times it is now. For example, This AM I paused my downloads for 8 hours, but it started 4 hours later and now the Pause feature is not available. This is very buggy.
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Tim C
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If it has been rolled out to all personal users, then why do I not have the option? I checked to see if I had any Windows 10 updates outstanding and i do not. So again, why do I not have the pause option?
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Anonymous
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Hi Jason,
That's great news but I don't see the option available on my PC - I am using OneDrive for personal use - I am also a paid subscriber for remote disk (cloud based) space. How I can access the newly released functionality that you mention above ? -
Zsombor Fritz
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As I see it's done in personal and business OneDrive as well. Why is it still in "working on it" status?
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Anonymous
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Cool, I see now that I can pause the sync for 2, 8 and 24 hours. That is all I need. Thanks for bringing this back.
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Josh McFadden
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No one hears yours screams, or cares.
