Sync network drive with OneDrive

[Adam Augustyniak]

Hello, what might be the reason why RealTimeSync sometimes stops detecting directory changes when synchronizing a directory on a network drive with a directory on OneDrive?

[Plerry]

As written in the Limitations part of the RealTimeSync (RTS) manual page:
"RealTimeSync relies on receiving change notifications from the operating system"

OneDrive simply does not support directory monitoring, or at least not the method used by RTS.

[xCSxXenon]

OneDrive simply does not support directory monitoring, or at least not the method used by RTS.

Not completely "true", as it goes lol
Since there isn't native OneDrive integration, the only way to interface FFS and OneDrive is to use the local copy of OneDrive. Chances are almost 100% that this is located in a location that does support RTS monitoring.

With this said, I don't know what the issue could be. I use RTS with a OneDrive subdirectory perfectly fine. How do you know it stopped detecting changes? Maybe the idle time is not being consumed from some other process accessing the data?

[Plerry]

Sure, if you have/keep a copy of all your OneDrive files in your local OneDrive folder, you can perfectly (RTS) monitor and (FFS) sync that local OneDrive folder with any local or network folder, and be safe.
The problem rests in those OneDrive files that are only in the cloud; the cloud part of OneDrive can not be RTS monitored.

[Adam Augustyniak]

Gentlemen, there's no problem with OneDrive (it works very well), but there is a problem with the network drive (NAS). I sync the network drive (NAS) with OneDrive, not the other way around.