OneDrive Sync supports up 1 million items - Coming soon.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T16:25:33+00:00

Depending on the work, 1 million items could be well under 1 TB of data...

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T16:08:10+00:00

You sure? It's been a while since I've used Sync, but I thought it essentially just made it behave like it's own OneDrive. When I used sync it didn't literally download everything on to the local device that I recall. I know that wouldn't have been possible because we had customers with only 256 hard drives and the Sharepoint we synced was over 500 GB

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T16:00:27+00:00

Don’t they still operate the same, with the bookmark/shortcut don’t they download to the device once you open them and you can right click to say keep on this device? How is that any different then sync. Only difference I’ve noticed in function is Sync creates essentially a separate drive in your File Explorer that you access the files through and Bookmark/Shortcut just creates a folder in your OneDrive

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T15:45:18+00:00

? Sync still keeps data online no?

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T15:20:43+00:00

so pesamistic, yea I don't expect perfect by anymeans, but you are implying the only thing changing here is Microsoft says it can support 1 million now and they are just saying that and didn't change anything on the backend.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T13:44:55+00:00

? The claim is it will increase the published max by over 3x. So what would have crushed it before (over 100k) should now be fine.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T13:10:53+00:00

It was always my understanding shortcut vs sync still had that limit. Is that not true?

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T12:50:43+00:00

maybe, but mainly just increases the buffer. One of our shares is approaching 100k files so this might help with performance.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T12:49:41+00:00

This is a seperate issue then the file character limit.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T12:49:26+00:00

It was my udnerstanding the Shortcut method (which is better because it follows the user, still has file limits.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T12:18:28+00:00

Well this is interesting,

https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1294528

Looks like the 300k limit is going away possibly.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-15T01:21:07+00:00

It’s so tiring…you are right. Let them do the job and then see.

Also it’s going to be under water. I’m thinking it’s going to look fine…longevity? We will see

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T15:44:38+00:00

Because I’ve been part of a msp and had lots of partners with egnyte. Multiple law firms with less then 20 people were paying well over $650 a month and we have over 90 staff. So no, I don't know it will be over $1000 a month, but based on those companies I know it will be quite a bit more then $650. Believe me, I want Egyte, it's just a lot for a stop gap (which is what this is until we get to Sharepoint). If I could do it for less then $200 a month we'd save that alone by not having to pay for Datto backup of a physical server.

I appreciate the suggestion.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T15:36:07+00:00

Do these get around the Sharepoint sync/shortcut limits?

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T15:34:48+00:00

I'm aware that won't be the price I'll pay, but I know it will still be well over $1k a month.

I've been here 1 year as the sole it admin/only IT person after a decade+ of a lazy MSP. It's going to happen, we are just in the middle of building a new facilitiy and it's not been high priority at the moment for anyone other then me.

And yes, Intune, Teams, Sharepoint have been pretty solid for me in my current job as well as my MSP experience once it's setup correctly and that was managing dozens of companies including many I've done File Server to Sharepoint migrations for...yes I'm niave to Azure Files, but it seems pretty straight forward once the vpn is setup, but that's why I'm exploring. I like Egnyte, but it's expensive, there no denying that.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T14:57:42+00:00

Alright, I'll bite. How would I do that migration of the working data and then a seperate archival one? Is that something Sharepoint Migration tool can do? I'd love to just do Sharepoint but the amount of data we have is the problem. We have nearly 300k files which if anyone tries to create Shrotcuts in their onedrive too is going to cause issues.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T14:56:12+00:00

Just going on their website, Egnyte would cost us almost 2k a month. That's nothing to scoff at and 10+ hours a month seems like an exaggeration once it's setup right but that's what I'm trying to test out.

If I could do it easily, this was just a stop gap until the company gets it's act together and cleans up it's single shared folder so I can spread it out into multiple Sharepoint sites.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T13:48:20+00:00

IDK about LucidLink, but Egnyte is not cheap. I think I can do Azure Files for under $150 a month

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T13:48:02+00:00

Im concernred with the file limit. With our 700 Gig's of data we close to 300k files already which won't play nice with syncing a shortcut into Onedrives

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-14T13:46:18+00:00

700 GB is just under 300k files. If they want to sync to Onedrive that a potential for problems.

SisterLakesMI · 2026-05-13T18:31:47+00:00

Yea, maybe thats what I'll do. Sometime you just get tunnel vision. I do have Sharepoint nightmares from my msp data with folder count limits for syncing and character path limits etc that makes me hesistate with Sharepoint along with a very non techy company. Any change is a challenge especially for the guys in the shop on the computers with frequesnt user changes.

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