Enable differential sync (only sync parts of the files that changed)
Today OneDrive implements differential sync only for Office files (that is, syncing only the changes made to the file, instead of the entire file). It would be a significant improvement for this capability to work against any files in OneDrive - so smaller changes to a file would result in less data needing to be transmitted, meaning less time to sync changes back and forth, and more efficient use of network bandwidth.
PJD
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We have completed the rollout for both personal and business users. Enjoy the better syncing!
214 comments
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Lebb
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Plis porfavor this feature is sooo necessary
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Latch Kostov
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I just found out that I chewed up all my bandwidth and reached my data cap, because I had a program running which was located on the desktop, and it created and regularly updated a very large log file. This log file exceeded 30MB, and was being uploaded every single time it changed...I assume the entire thing.... I have never used my entire 1 TB of monthly bandwidth until today.
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Murat B
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When can we have this feature???
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Anonymous
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+1 Vote for this
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Anonymous
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Completely ridiculous that Microsoft has not implemented this, considering Dropbox has been able to do this for years!!!!!
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Rafael “R4to0” Maciel
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Nothing on this? It's a huge headache sync the entire file when you're using EDGE 2G internet...
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Geoff Faulkner
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This was on the Q2 roadmap for OneDrive, but it's now Q4. Do you have any update to this? Differential sync is a very necessary feature.
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Uli André Armbruster commented
As long as the so called delta sync is missing, OneDrive is no option. Dropbox supports this for many years now. If you're using truecrypt/veracrypt container, always the full size has to be transfered. No chance with a 10 GB container :(
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San
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any news on time when it will be release?
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Anonymous
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October, 2017: I'm glad to FINALLY have files on-demand back, but I've been waiting for incremental sync even longer. Any updates?
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Anonymous
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Actually this feature is supported by Dropbox and one of the main reasons because a lot of users I know don’t like OneDrive (many don’t know technically why by they say sync is dramatically lower in OneDrive).
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Caleb
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I'd really like to see this implemented. Would really help when working with large CAD files.
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A
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September is ending with no news. Three years thinking...
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Stewart
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This would be really helpful for me as I have a very limited data allocation each month (50gb) for all of our household (Broadband not spot) using a very expensive provider satellite system. Currently sync'ing my one drive has to be regualted to periods where I take the laptop to a public library to use their alloaction.
Being able to sync where only the changed files (all of them) are updated would mean we can have an up to date one drive.
Please do give it some serious thought; I cannot be the only one with limited access -
Nirudha Perera
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Does this actually help much in binary compressed formats such as a docx/jpg/psd/pdf etc? It would work great on an XML or TXT file but not sure if that is all that important now.
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Sluice
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We've got 4 days left for this to come in Q2! Come on Microsoft, digital extraction time.
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Cyrus The German
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@PJD: You mean delta encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding ?
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Angie
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Is this going to happen?
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Anonymous
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Microsoft: This item created in 2014. And you're still just THINKING ABOUT IT.
Why not just say "No, we don't care what you think, we're going to do other things."? -
Joseph Vitale
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This should be a priority. Because of this, i have had data overages on hotspot of $500 and up more than once.
