Syncing over LAN
This would allow multiple PCs / Devices with the same OneDrive account to sync over the local LAN network. This makes a huge difference when setting a new PC (or restoring one) as you can transfer 100's of gigs over the LAN much faster and without impacting your Internet bandwidth cap.
Michael
shared this idea
We don’t have a timeline yet but it’s still on our radar.
345 comments
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DBH
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actively looking to dump onedrive and microsoft 365 from our company now as a result of this and the ignorant behaviour of microsoft towards its customers.
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Roopak Chauhan
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You could copy data over manually, no? BTW Microsoft used to have SynToy that would do exactly this.
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Chan Wai Ki
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I am a marine surveyor, and I have multiple window 10 computers with me. Often I need to sync files, but as a "Seaman", you don't really get a good internet connection in the middle of the ocean, so this feature is crucial to me, otherwise I might as well just grab a USB stick to pass files between computers.
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Brad
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I just expanded the Admin comments. It's not been high on the radar since 2014! Let that sync in (pun intended). 6 years and no action.
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Brad
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Dropbox has had this for YEARS! It was the primary reason we originally went Dropbox. I'm regretting this now. Uploading GBs of images at <20Mbps and then downloading is painfully time consuming. Maybe MS is showing the business roots of OneDrive and expects everyone to have symmetrical internet. The first sync triggered the 1 TB limit of my provider!
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Franz Keller
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Would be absolutely smashing feature for small companies and families sharing huge amounts of data over OneDrive, because sometimes NAS is too slow (database files for programs like digicam, or lightroom, etc.)
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Stephen Day
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Please please add this feature!!!!!
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Omar
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+1 must have
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Ariel Santa Rosa
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Must have feature
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Lebb
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pleeeeese this would be great!!
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Keller Baum
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What's up with this???? Main thing keeping me from using onedrive...
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George Cretu
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Can we get this already?
Is it really something that you need to think about that much? -
Paweł
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+1 - 'must have' feature.
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Anonymous
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How hard can this be...DropBox has done it for a decade now...
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Steffen
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What the hell, just do it! It's terrible to sync 750GB to three new Computers over Internet.... :-( Many of us are working in home office. Dropbox can do this since years!
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Gino
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We need LAN sync, it makes our workflow much faster especially if transferring large video files across newly setup computers. It's such an annoyance and a pain compared to Dropbox. Sync to LAN can easily give OneDrive a large boost in itself.
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GraniteStateColin
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As many others have said, missing this is a critical problem, because I have multiple computers and a slow Internet connection. Instead, I use local sync with Offline Files and Sync Center in Windows. That's the only we can rapidly sync multiple computers to a common network share. This one missing feature prevents me from moving myself and my company and clients over to most of the online features of Office 365. We still use O365, but not the cloud storage, because it's just too cumbersome to keep files synced between multiple devices on the same LAN. This is the single biggest hole in OneDrive's features for our team.
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Chris Gorle
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Just do it Microsoft.
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Jay A
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This is just horrible. Especially under the current conditions it would be great to sync office files in a team via LAN before everyone they leave for home office.
We currently have a team of 10 motion designers who will have to sync all their files (100s of GBs) online at home since this simple LAN feature is still missing. -
Krzysztof Bobkowski
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2009, Dropbox introduces LAN sync, suggestion posted in 2014 ... 5 years later "thinking about", "not high on our backlog" ... can't wait for 2024, where the biggest software company on the planet might finally catch up with two MIT students.
