The Trails and Tribulations of Using OneDrive with a Large Mobile Data Set.

I have found that there are many blogs and YouTube videos comparing the various cloud storage options. The majority of these do very well at addressing the average users concerns though do not deal with the powers users problems or technical issues.  I have committed financially, data transfer and time to getting OneDrive to work for me.  This series of blog posts will address some of my concerns and how I addressed them and I hope helps others with the same issues.

A quick overview of how I am currently using one drive is as follows. I use an Office 365 subscription with 1 Terabyte of space plus the 200 odd gig that came with my surface pro 2.  The Surface is my primary PC with 256 gig of space and I also use a 2 terabyte portable drive.  My file collection is now around 600 gig and growing largely due to  DSLR and GoPro files.  I have been traveling for some time and largely do not have a full-time internet connection, just making do with whatever is available.  This will change in future but the experience has highlighted some (I believe) down sides to OneDrive that it’s owners might want to address.

In the next few next few posts I’ll address things like time to finish “processing changes”, the inefficiencies of  re-syncing large files and the lack of local LAN sync. I shall not forget the positives these require a lot less comment as they are already working.  Part of my hope is that Microsoft will start to address my concerns.  I have read so many features requests going back years that have not been addressed.