why would my OneDrive suddenly be processing over 40,000 changes?

I have exactly the same problem on all my laptops, two Windows 11 and one Apple. My iPad does not have a problem. What is the point of asking for a new thread when you have the same reported problem from several users. Deal with it!

Exactly the same here too. Over 273k changes and going down about 6 at a time 🤦‍♂️.

There's clearly some kind of recent issue introduced if many people are reporting it. No need for new chat threads.

To add: if I go to onedrive in the browser, nothing is being updated. (Which is correct: I haven't done any kind of mass-update on my laptop).

This is happening to this laptop right now - OneDrive is processing 235,000 changes and is only reducing by about 1 per 2 seconds. Given the date of the original posts, seems something is very up with OneDrive.

@nahid if many people are suddenly experiencing similar issues it makes zero sense to create multiple threads. People are experiencing the same symptoms. If you can't actually help can you please escalate this.

Just experienced this issue on over 7 different computers on different operating systems and in different physical locations. Two more computers at one of the locations were not affected. The only thing I could find that might shed some light on this is that the computers that had OneDrive blow up on them were all on version number 25.031.0217.0003, which (interestingly enough) is not listed on MS OneDrive release notes page as far as I can see. None of the computers/accounts in question are signed up for the "insider program/early release/beta" versions (and you couldn't pay me to sign up for that if recent events are what "tried and tested" service looks like). All 7 computers had to be completely unlinked from OneDrive and SharePoint and reset, which took a few days and was EXTREMELY disruptive.

EDIT: Forgot to mention -- all computers in question only had a few folders from our library syncing (our full library is VERY large) and when OneDrive exploded, ALL the library folders were suddenly selected on the computers in question and OneDrive was trying to sync the ENTIRE library to each computer. I understand Microsoft is trying to push the "files on demand" feature, but that doesn't work for us and I'm sure there are plenty of other companies out there that it doesn't work for as well. So, Microsoft, this is where an option to interrupt the syncing process and switch off folders currently trying to download would be very nice. The only option we have is "pause," which is useless and locks us out of the settings to deselect folders we don't want syncing, or "stop sync," which also removes the ability to deselect unwanted folders. Who thought that was a good idea? If we try to unselect any folders while OneDrive is trying to sync oh, say an ENTIRE library, we get an error message that states it can't do that right now. Super helpful... Sorry, not sorry. Need to vent somewhere as this experience was probably the WORST OneDrive experience I've ever had and we've been using OneDrive since 2018...