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Hey guys,
I've been feeling very frustrated about OneDrive:
Ever since I've switched to Catalina on my MBP 15", OneDrive keeps spinning up a bunch of processes called "OneDrive Finder Integration", about 5-6 of them and then Finder goes over 130% along with another system-level process. Needless to say, this kicks up the fans to the full speed and, if running on battery, chews up through so much of the battery. The only other way around this is to pause the app which defeats the whole point of having a "cloud" backup. I've looked around, run a bunch of scripts suggested, uninstalled, reset and then reinstalled the app with no success. Can someone help me with this?
BTW, why can't I check my Preferences (where the version number is accessible) when OneDrive is paused?!!! this is just poor planning as far as I'm concerned!
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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That is exactly what mine is doing and I'm on the bleeding edge, Version 20.201.1005.0008. It has been doing this for over a year now--possibly longer. I opened a ticket with Microsoft on the enterprise side but they stopped helping me because I refused to switch back to the non-insider preview version. They assumed it was the preview version.
What is it processing and why? According to the app, the last file updated was 9 hours ago! Truly, where's the dev team? Probably working on another project that MS has to shut down innovative companies like Slack! ;)
I remember they told me here to change some settings on the File Vault (or something similar) and that helped. This issue has only resurfaced in the past 3-4 weeks on my end. I dunno when it happened. I wanna say around the time Apple release the new macOS (I miss saying OS X lol). But I haven't updated to the new macOS. Waiting for some of the major bugs to get worked out before getting into it.
Back to this, it still does the same thing. Especially when I wake up my Mac from sleep.
I have almost given up on Microsoft providing a solution to this. It has been a problem for well over a year now. I wonder how much energy is being wasted by this poorly designed software? I have started using AppPolice to throttle OneDrive’s cpu demands for both the OneDrive and Finder integration processe to <80%. It seems to behave better with that.
I left that on and turned off the Files On Demand. But still major issues.
I have almost given up on Microsoft providing a solution to this. It has been a problem for well over a year now. I wonder how much energy is being wasted by this poorly designed software? I have started using AppPolice to throttle OneDrive’s cpu demands for both the OneDrive and Finder integration processe to <80%. It seems to behave better with that.