PSA: One Drive may temporarily lock XIV log files causing game lag

[Dzian]

This is quite a common issue. Not just with one drive but any file sync software that syncs your users directory.

It doesn't matter where you install the game all the user data will be still bebstored in your mygames folder.

If you want to use one drive just create a couple of exceptions (ignore list) and tell it to ignore both the logs folder and ffxivpatch folders.

It's a pretty common reason why people's updates can be slow because one drive or whatever is trying to sync the ffxivpatch folder while the game client is making changes to it and causes conflicts.

Disabling it entirely might not be a great idea if it's your only real backup.

[Catwho]

This is quite a common issue. Not just with one drive but any file sync software that syncs your users directory.

It doesn't matter where you install the game all the user data will be still bebstored in your mygames folder.

If you want to use one drive just create a couple of exceptions (ignore list) and tell it to ignore both the logs folder and ffxivpatch folders.

It's a pretty common reason why people's updates can be slow because one drive or whatever is trying to sync the ffxivpatch folder while the game client is making changes to it and causes conflicts.

Disabling it entirely might not be a great idea if it's your only real backup.

Agreed. I'm old fashioned and I have a nightly backup to the 4TB external drive instead, as well as manual scrapes of the whole system every few months in a directory structure. One Drive has its uses - it's quite handy to sync certain common files from my desktop to my laptop, but the majority of my more important work file backups are done to a shared Google drive these days.

Poking holes in the exception log is probably an excellent idea for those without another backup solution.