High CPU Usage on macOS Catalina.... This is very annoying!

Anonymous
2020-03-31T01:33:17+00:00

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!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-01T15:56:00+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-29T20:50:30+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-29T16:58:25+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-27T23:11:41+00:00

    FYI, the app again went on full throttle on me for 30 mins... processing "300" changes... I didn't even know I had that many files or processes going on! The folder OneDrive syncs has only data files and I have 4-5 of the files open... FIX IT PLEASE

    That's exactly what it does to me and everyone I know that uses OneDrive.  My only saving grace is this new MacBook M1.  It has no issues gobbling up the wasted CPU cycles.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-27T22:46:17+00:00

    FYI, the app again went on full throttle on me for 30 mins... processing "300" changes... I didn't even know I had that many files or processes going on! The folder OneDrive syncs has only data files and I have 4-5 of the files open... FIX IT PLEASE

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