Ondrive for Business Sync Issues again

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we are experience from time to time (almost every 2nd day) problems when synching files. Espescially OFDB seems to synch all the time, but nothing happens.
When we start to analyze the problem we followed the instructions mentioned somwhere else (eg. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933738):
- Checking that files do not contain characters that are not allowed
- Checking whether the file name length or folder length is in spec
- etc. ...
But still e.g. the folder is marked need to be synchronized and all files within the folder are marked as synchronized. Manully start the synchronization does not help.
Having a closer look to the server directly we found that there is one file on the server that is not in ODFB-Sync. So we manually touch this file, give it an actual date (e.g. with freeware fstouch) and then the problem was solved ... - one one computer.
But this is not a real solution because then we change manually the the modification time stamp only for synchronizing purposes.
On other computers the problem still exists with other files.The problems may be even worse in such a way that the folder is marked with a red cross (cannot be synchronized) without an explicable reason because on other computers the folder is in sync.
The bitter truth at the moment is that all my colleagues ask me several times a week what's wrong with the synchronization, how can we fix it, why does it happen. Finally the lost confidence in the system. Everybody is using its own space now, nothing will
be backuped in normal way anymore.
Now the questions to th Microsoft Engineers:
What is the best way to analyze these problems?
Are there any tools that help to analyze it. There is a database CentralTable.accdb that contains the information. How can this be used?
The little icons in the folder/file list are not reliable. What is the cause for this?
When does Microsoft release an ODFB version that is really stable and that contains a message system that informs users about outstanding synchronizations and has a manual override?
In my opinion Microsoft should be more transparent with this stuff. OFDB is intend to be a business proof and stable plattform, but at the moment it isn't. Give us the right information and give us the right tools in order to do our job as administrators.
And really, Microsoft cannot expect that a lot of user follow the instructions again and again that normaly have the following Meanings:
Do a repair (i.d Synchronize everything again)
Stop synchronizing a library and synchronize the library again
Check whether all restrictions are met (I expect that the software tells me which files are not in spec, I don't want to make a guess! )
etc.
In my company I did this with all users now 4 times during the last 2 month. It takes a lot of time and it taxes patience of all colleagues. And there was another problem that occured then with the size of the office file cache: see http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/156/t/269853.aspx
I am really fed up with this procedure.
I hope I get an answer from MS
Kind regards
Dirk

Dear Aries,
Dear Microsoft engineers
We have Sharepoint on premise not Sharepoint Online, so the first two articles do not apply with our system The app does not work with Sharepoint 2013 on premise.The third one is a general article that describes how to sync a library.
So what should I say now?
Yes right, we have problems again. After I got all computers in sync, by disconneting the librarays and resync it again it took only one week and then 8 of 9 computers are out of sync and the sync process stucks. On one computer we have 641 files to be synched
on the other a liitle bit less and so on. What does the Menu entry "Show sync problems" show? Guess Excatly: NOTHING!
These computers are running all the time with approx. 50% and above of CPU load which is consumed by groove.exe. And because this task runs with normal priority people are complaining about the performance of the computer. Have you ever written a word document
and you could see that one letter after the other shows on the screen in time lapse? I saw it several times. So I reccomend to shut down ODfB temporarily.
Later I installed the following batch file in autostart to enforce lower priority for ODFB:
timeout /t 2
taskkill /t /f /im groove.exe
timeout /t 2
c:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15"
start /BELOWNORMAL GROOVE.EXE /RunFolderSync /TrayOnly
But still we do not have any tool in order to solve the problems: So remember my questions:
What is the best way to analyze these problems?
Are there any tools that help to analyze it. There is a database CentralTable.accdb that contains the information. How can this be used?
When does Microsoft release an ODFB version that contains a message system that informs users about outstanding synchronizations and has a manual override?
Please do not send any answer again with links to documents that explain how to repair ODfB , how to reconnect to a library or what the limitations are. I think people that read this article already have read all the other stuff and already have used lots
of hours for searching an answer.
What we need is a tool, that describe e.g. how to analyze which file blocks the synchronization and how this partuicular error can be solved.
As mentioned above I did repair, ODfB I did stop and retart synching libraries, I did check all the requirements several times and I reinstalled Office all with the same result that files will not sync after a few days/weeks. But I will not do this
again and again.The worst thig is, that people do not trust anymore in this technology.
If there is no solution I cannot recommend customers to use ODfB. They will have the same problems By the way there are a lot of other stuff and question, see the list below, so we are not alone.
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/148/p/269514/825112.aspx
http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/do_more_with_office_365/onedrive-for-business-sync.aspx
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/272927.aspx
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/276237.aspx
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/172/t/276477.aspx
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/156/t/269853.aspx
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/172/t/273549.aspx
Regards
Dirk

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