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.
370 comments
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Anees Dollie
commented
Omar has this become a high priority yet?
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Brad Ling
commented
[Insert Morpheus meme] What if I told you... that LAN sync is the reason for many of the users OneDrive is losing to Dropbox?
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Jim Hooke
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I SO agree that the device to device over LAN option should be a TOP priority. I have a Dropbox account but prefer to use Onedrive. Please please....
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Bas Schwarz
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Well, 9 months later could be considered the future!
How about an update? -
RJ
commented
With OneDrive's slow sync speed, this would be a huge improvement.
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Ryan
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In my opinion, this needs to be a BIG priority, especially now that OneDrive is unlimited. Everytime I upgrade a machine, it takes me 30 minutes to sync my Dropbox files via LAN, and 24 hours to sync my OneDrive. I understand that this may not have been as big of a problem in Windows 8/8.1 due to the advanced selective sync, but now that Windows 10 is moving back to the old way of syncing folders, it's really important that I be able to sync my large library over LAN.
This is the one thing that is keeping me from canceling Dropbox and moving to OneDrive exclusively. Please, please make this a priority. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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Why is this not here yet? I continue to use dropbox for other scenarios and this just seems like it should be there. Especially since live mesh had it? I know you are working on cross platform so that everybody has onedrive, but how about making the experience richer with Windows and allow lan sync.
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Anonymous
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Live Mesh had LAN Sync how many years ago?? How can you not have implemented this?
The amount of money and talent MS has at their disposal shows how much they purely hate their customers. If you are even thinking of using an MS product or solution take a second to research the hundreds of similar situations where a company of 90% managers in incapable of the most basic tasks to meet customers needs.
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Anonymous
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This feature is the last thing that makes us continue to use Dropbox. It is critical that this is moved to high priority. In fact I am quite shocked that it is not.
Sharing files across PCs on our network using OneDrive for Business can often cause massive bottlenecks in our workflow. This costs us valuable time and money. I am sure this is NOT a good selling point. -
Roth
commented
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Anonymous commented
Yes, this would be great when installing a new PC.
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Anonymous
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+1, this should be a basic feature
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Peter
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This, in conjunction with differential or delta sync, would make OneDrive a whole lot more attractive to business users who use OneDrive to share files across multiple machines. As a home user, I don't need one machine uploading files to the internet, and another downloading them from the internet, when both machines are on the same network, and could just sync between one another, just like Dropbox does. These are the two missing features that are preventing me from using OneDrive as my primary sync platform.
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Tom Loveland
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I agree. Now that Comcast is putting a bandwidth cap on users' accounts, this is an essential feature. Also, as more users have more computers in the home/building, this will save everyone's bandwidth. I would have adopted OneDrive long ago had this feature been available. The only reason I left Dropbox now was because I needed the Office applications that came with Office 365, and OneDrive came with it. Please move this higher in your priority list.
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hamalawy
commented
This should be one of your top priorities, the more storage offer the more crucial this feature is. and if one of your rivals has it, then you should already be implementing it.
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Alex
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we had the same problem with our company.
Just had to change PC'S On a weekend base.
In the end we decided not to invest in an expencive and useless local server and han no other choise than Dropbox for Team, everything went smooth and perfectly.If you also have large data sets to upload for first time contact dropbox support, they will plan e preferred upload connection with fast data bandwith and or defined offices in mayor cities where you can connect and upload Terabytes in just Hours.
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Martin
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C'mon! OneDrive was a pain whe. I got a new PC, it takes forever. We really need this.
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Electro Light
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oh boy, I thought OneDrive had this feature already, maybe I should have done more research before subscribing to Office 365 now 1TB space on OneDrive and 400GB of data to sync :( how many days it will take on a basic 4mbps broadband connection, anyone have any IDEA?
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Martin
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About to reinstall my PC from scratch .. ouch, why did I leave Dropbox? it is going to take a 2-3 months to resync and not kill my download cap
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Eric
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+1. The lack of this feature is what blocks our adoption of skydrive and google drive. It seems people with corporate Internet have no concept of how precious Internet bandwidth is.
