Show detailed synced status (speed, time, files...)
We ar efrustrated by endless processing changes and never know what is doing. Show us what OneDrive is doung:
- updating files xxx of xxxx
- time to coplete cca xx seconds/minutes
- uploading at xxkb/s
- files remaining
- files that is curently in sync
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Anonymous
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Thanks for the feedback. We recently began rolling out our new activity center which shows the files that are sync’ing, have recently sync’d, and more. There’s more to do so please create individual requests for features you’d like to see in upcoming releases.
188 comments
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Neil Caulfield commented
Please give us such a detailed interface for seeing what is going up and what is coming down stream. I have over a TB of files in my onedrive and not being able to tell what folders are currently updating is very irritating, also, I have no way of knowing how long I have to wait for large changes (80 GB worth of files) are fully mirrored in the cloud
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Anonymous
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This is really critical. "Processing changes" is unhelpful. I don't know if I have 3 minutes left to be synced up (fine) or 20 (whatever, I'll finish syncing later; I've got a plane to catch.")
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Anonymous
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Related to this is to fix the messaging that one sees when a sync fails. "Unable to sync your ONeDrive; contact your system administrator" is NOT helpful. Nor is "could not upload file to server." These "messages" are useless and tell you nothing about what actually is going wrong. It also does not give those of us in IT support any useful information, leading us to just stab in the dark to try and fix the issue.
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David
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I completely agree with this and have given this the max of 3 votes. I really hate the trend of software towards minimal information and leaving the user in the dark about what is going on. It's like the dummy light in autos--WHAT DOES IT MEAN?? Tell me what is happening, PLEASE!
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Anonymous
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Hurry! I have a 1.5 Mbps upload speed. I unthinkingly started to upload 200 GB of data from my NAS. It will take years. I need a way to evaluate what is going on and then take the right action to stop this. When I try reduce the sync'd folders, Onedrive tells me I can't until OneDrive finishes uploading all the folders. Arrrrgh.....
Free isn't a good deal if it wastes my valuable time!!!!!!
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Viktor Fonic
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Can you make this happen? Having OneDrive stuck on 'Processing files...' without knowing potential cause is annoying!
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Anonymous
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Agreed. That should be easy.
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Anonymous
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I agree. I having a similar problem too with OneDrive personal. OneDrive keeps on saying 'Uploading .. x files remaining' but there is no way to identify which files to see these are. Where bandwidth and time are limited, this can make it impossible to identify/stop the upload of a big file that may have inadvertently got added to the OneDrive sync space.
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Anonymous
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I have exactly the same problem. Just showing that 2 files are being uploaded, although nothing has changed. Already 9 GB of data and it is ongoing. The amount of data to be uploaded is also counting up, so no idea how much data will be uploaded. This happened just after I've installed an update (Macbook). Very frustrated with the whole process.
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Anonymous
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I'd really like this too. I use both OneDrive & Dropbox and this is something that makes the Dropbox experience much more transparent about what's going on. It's a key difference in the everyday experience & one reason I hold back switching everything to OneDrive.
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George Tourtsinakis
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I like the idea since most of the times I don t know what onedrive is doing and what is uploading.
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Mike T
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Please do asap for the Mac client. I've just learned there is a max file size for upload, so it would be useful to be able to see where things are getting held up. Or IF they are getting held up. Eg, has upload stalled, or is it just a large file that is taking a long time?
I'm moving from Dropbox to One Drive. With about 250Mb of data, I need a better idea of how things are going. Or should I have stayed with Dropbox?
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Dave Dallas
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Agreed. It would also be very helpful to have the processing arrow icons like on dropbox. Otherwise, you don't know which folders are not up-to-date.
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Jeff Ridder commented
Please do this on the Mac client as well. My OneDrive is currently syncing 9.1GB of files but yet nothing has changed in the local folder to cause that much of a change. Bandwidth isn't always free.
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Mark
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And this should be available for both OneDrive and also OneDrive for Business.
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Stuart C
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This progress monitoring also includes the addition of 'green ticks' for the Mac client...see Mac threads.
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Stuart C
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A sync status icon for each file and folder is a must have and is another negative for Onedrive against its direct competitors. It's impossible to know which files are synced and up to date.
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jay
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i see the most basic upload % by hovering over the onedrive icon in the system tray (win 10). that's basically all i want to know for now, but more details would be nice. and more control. i'd like the metro app back
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Chris
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Hopefully this is something seriously being looked at as in Windows 10 it is incredibly unhelpful not knowing if a sync is at 5% or 95%. Between this and the lack of placeholders my time with Windows 10 is at an end and I will be rolling back to Win 8.1. I appreciate the complexity of merging all the OneDrive backend setup but if these features are not added to OneDrive by years end I will begin looking at other cloud solutions.
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Anonymous
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When uploading large files via Windows it should be possible to show the actual progress. eg. 1,5 of 3 GB uploaded,
