OneDrive - location awareness

[JayBM]

Hoping someone might be able to help; my wife's laptop uses OneDrive and is either connected to our unlimited home fibre connection or her office 4G connection which has some pretty sizeable bandwidth fees.

I'm fairly certain there is no inbuilt solution to prevent OneDrive syncing when connected to certain networks but I'm hoping we might be able to achieve something via Windows 10? Does anyone have any experience or a possible solution that would disable sync when connected to the office network?

Thanks in advance.

[JayBM]

moonigan said:

You could disable "Files on demand" so the laptop always has a copy of every file and then "Pause Syncing" when she gets to the office then when the laptop is connected at home the files are synced.

Thanks, unfortunately we've tried the "Pause Syncing" option, but its dependent on it being remembered....which it isn't all the time.

[JayBM]

Mr Pointy said:

Maybe configure the 4G connection as a metered connection? This tutorial might help as well:

https://www.howto-connect.com/configure-sync-setti...

Although this one indicated you might need to edit a Reg file:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/117911-disable...

Note I don't use Onedrive soI can't access these settings myself

Virtual pint sir, I've just tested the metered connection functionality on my laptop and it seems to work without the registry change. Hopefully this will avoid large bills in the future.