OneDrive slow to open folders - not sync speed

tony359 · 12 Nov 2021

Hello all,

My Onedrive is painfully slow in opening folders, even empty ones and even sync'd ones. Whichever folder I open it takes about 30 seconds to display.
If I try to open a file, it takes 30 seconds before downloading. Whether the file is local or not. Onedrive says all is sync'd.

I have reinstalled OneDrive several times. I am a bit stuck.

Any help?

I am on Windows 10 21H1, Onedrive is version 2021 build 21.205.1003.0005 64 bit

Thanks!

tony359 · 25 Nov 2021

any help?

Onedrive takes ages even to open a text file or an empty folder.

Samuria · 25 Nov 2021

Are all the files in the cloud as that does it as it has to goto the server get details from there but any files local should be quicker

tony359 · 26 Nov 2021

Samuria,

Indeed. But I am talking about 30 seconds to display an empty folder. The online version of Onedrive via my browser is very fast. The Windows app is basically unusable. Even right-clicking on a file - a small file - results in a 30 seconds delay before the menu is displayed.

And local files and folder - on Onedrive - suffer of the same delay as well.

It wasn't like that before. It started doing that at some point but I cannot figure out why.

tony359 · 18 Dec 2021

I still haven't found a solution for this. My onedrive for Windows is basically unusable.

tony359 · 28 Dec 2021

Today I installed Dropbox on my PC - an existing account.

Same issue! I moved the folder on a different drive - I suspected my RAID array - but no, same thing. Opening anything or going anything takes at least 30 seconds. Yes, even local files.

What could possibly that be???

edit: I may have found the issue. Every time I try to open anything the following logs on the events

The server {...} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

(I've changed the ID with ...)

Any ideas?

Solution: I searched for that ID in the registry and it turned out to be iCloud for Windows. Mine never worked as my library folders are on a Network drive and iCloud doesn't like it. I didn't realise it was causing this timeout. Now both Onedrive and Dropbox work fine.

I still wonder how can some apps not like network drives in 2021.