How to stop Onedrive from trying to sync folders
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I pasted 20GB of photos and videos into my Onedrive Documents folder, not realising that it would try to sync them (thought it was set to local storage with sync on demand, unfortunately it's cloud storage with local download on demand!).
Is there any way to cancel the upload of these files? If I pause syncing then it seems to take Onedrive offline and I can't download other files I need, if I continue letting it sync then the download speed for other files I need is pretty much unusable.
It's all in one particular sub-folder in Onedrive>Documents, if that helps - I looked at the option of unselecting this folder for sync, but it would result in all the local files being deleted, which is the opposite of what I want.
Running Windows 10.
Is there any way to cancel the upload of these files? If I pause syncing then it seems to take Onedrive offline and I can't download other files I need, if I continue letting it sync then the download speed for other files I need is pretty much unusable.
It's all in one particular sub-folder in Onedrive>Documents, if that helps - I looked at the option of unselecting this folder for sync, but it would result in all the local files being deleted, which is the opposite of what I want.
Running Windows 10.
Yep, I used to only have small files and some photos in there, and only switched Onedrive on when I wanted to back them up. During a Windows update Onedrive must have activated on startup (wouldn't have made this change myself) so as soon as I pasted a folder in which had videos it started trying to upload them.
If I pause syncing it limits what it will let me do to copy/move the files, as they're cued up for syncing and if there's no connection to Onedrive it won't let me move them.
It seems to be only trying to upload around 50 files (the videos) so if I can make sure I have them elsewhere on my computer I can delete them from the Onedrive folder and then it'll stop trying to upload them. On our network connection any bulk uploading pretty much puts the kybosh on downloading anything, which is why I never had Onedrive switched on in the first place.
If I pause syncing it limits what it will let me do to copy/move the files, as they're cued up for syncing and if there's no connection to Onedrive it won't let me move them.
It seems to be only trying to upload around 50 files (the videos) so if I can make sure I have them elsewhere on my computer I can delete them from the Onedrive folder and then it'll stop trying to upload them. On our network connection any bulk uploading pretty much puts the kybosh on downloading anything, which is why I never had Onedrive switched on in the first place.
If uploading is killing your network, you need to set upload restrictions in your router. Currently - you’re router is set to upload at 100% however, as you have too much data this causes loads of issues.
Set bandwidth restrictions and the router will sort itself out and your download won’t die when you upload.
Set bandwidth restrictions and the router will sort itself out and your download won’t die when you upload.
Will have a look at router settings, thanks. Speed test says our download is 17mbps while upload is currently only 0.7mbps but I hardly upload anything, usually just before we go to bed so no-one else is using the network. it only seems to be onedrive or youtube that clam up the network, everything else lets us watch iplayer or whatever at the same time.
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