Why does OneDrive take up full disk activity once in a minute modifying syncenginedatabase.db

Question

Hello

I've noticed today after an update that my OneDrive instance is taking full disk activity once in a minute, causing my computer to run slow. I opened the task monitor to find out which files are being used during that time, it turns out OneDrive is modifying a file called syncencinedatabase.db that is located in my Personal Onedrive settings folder. %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings.

This has never happened before, I wonder if this was a result of the last update or is something undesired, becasue it is really annoying.

Hope somebody shed some light on this behavior.

Many thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Did you enable the OneDrive Files On-demand?

This method will help you free up space:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-disk-space-with-onedrive-files-on-demand-for-windows-0e6860d3-d9f3-4971-b321-7092438fb38e

Then reset OneDrive:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/reset-onedrive-34701e00-bf7b-42db-b960-84905399050c

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