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

Anonymous
2025-01-17T17:57:54+00:00

What would cause my OneDrive to suddenly be processing over 40,000 changes?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-25T19:49:41+00:00

    Yesterday I noticed that One Drive would not sync. Word and excel were returning a message along the lines of "One Drive Host is in read only state, changes will not be synced at this time... try later...." Wish I had screen shotted that. Now today, right after first login, all my files are syncing. No message from Microsoft about the "read only state", that's a bit disconcerting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-25T14:58:50+00:00

    I have the same issue. I have 40k processing changes on 3 devices, and it's painfully slow. It seems to be blocking any genuine file synchronisation from taking place until it's completed (I hope)! Why is this happening?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-25T14:57:03+00:00

    I disagree, this sounds exactly like the original post.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-23T23:44:42+00:00

    Same problem. Looks like it's been 3 months with no solution or even acknowledgement from Microsoft. Time to finally seek a different service.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-04-18T13:43:54+00:00

    over 600,000 changes processing. is OneDrive/Microsoft scraping our files or something?!?!

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