It's not only OneDrive, it could be any cloud service syncing the "Documents" folder whilst online. I had the same issue and fixed it with MEGA cloud.
My solution and post:
Another gamers issue solved:
Excluding folders in Onedrive isn't that simple though.
If you exclude a folder like I have done in the attached, that only tells OneDrive to not copy the contents from the cloud to your local PC.
Unfortunately it doesn't work the other way round due to the Backup feature that Onedrive has implemented.
How to exclude specific files/folders from OneDrive (while - Microsoft Community
So what you end up with is a "cloud" copy of the folder, and one on your local PC, which causes a conflict.
I'm surprised there isn't an easier way to tell Origin/EA Play to store the contents elsewhere, because the Documents folder really shouldn't be used for all that data. As others have mentioned, it should be placed in AppData.
I have the same problem. The suggested solution to sync to "appdata" wouldn't really help me, since that partition is only big enough for windows and programs except games, not huge amounts of cache. For me, the game folder would be a good place. However, we should be able to choose.
Just getting ridiculous. Had shut down my PC immediately after a game last night, then when I started it up this morning for work OneDrive needed to do a half GB upload. Utterly tedious.
CHANGE THE FOLDER THATS IS SYNC IN YOUR ONE DRIVE / GOOGLE DRIVE ->> SETTINGS
I'm pretty sure, as has already been noted several times in this thread, that process only excludes folders from your local computer and not the cloud-based OneDrive server.
@syn7hwolfyes you need to exclude document/bf2042 folder from it.
so only the folders that still are included will be backup to onedrive.
That should solve your upload/download from onedrive and bf2042
Hi, mate. I appreciate the links and threads, thanks. Unfortunately, however, I have seen these before and they do not provide an adequate solution for my particular circumstances (nor, I suspect, for some of the previous posters both in this thread and others).
The issue is that I do not wish to unlink my PC from OneDrive completely, nor do I wish to exclude my entire Documents folder from the OneDrive backups (as there is no ability to drill down to individual folder level when excluding files). There are a multitude of reasons for this, which I wont bore you with but they mainly pertain to my own job/work, which renders both of these potential solutions unfeasible work arounds--as it would basically require me to remove MS OneDrive entirely from my work desktop simply to play one, single game.
Ideally, as others have stated, DICE would be able to move the relevant cache data folder to AppData or 2042's own install path/folder, as many other games do. It really is a tedious annoyance, and the idea of the player having to actively remove functionality from entirely unrelated programs on your PC, just in order to get around it, does not strike me as particularly user friendly.
and if ya make a another account at that computer , with restriction so onedrive is not available for that account but the game is ?
then you dont have those problem , ya only need to sign in with that new/extra account !!!
make sure the game is available at that new account (even disable all other programs, for some extra boost pc/gfx/fps even more (smiley))
and moving all to appdata is not what i like.
very often i cleanup the folders in APPDATA , then i need to wait for shaders download everytime i startup the game.
Or when people got a tool that cleanup appdata (sub fiolders automaticly) everytime ,
you realy need to check your onedrive , reinstall it , and cfg your folders who need to be backup !!!
if ya reinstall one drive , dont forget to backup your files in DOCUMENTS first.
you could copy/paste them , could take some time , or CUT/PASTE it , this is much faster
also handy
DICE TeamMerged serval threads together as we all talking about the same item.
Feedback has been sent on to the team. (that don't mean it will be changed)
/Atic
If I delete the shader cache in the documents folder it seems to run smoother before it gathers shader cache files.
Shouldn't the point of it have the opposite affect?
@I_DYN4MO_Isame feeling here... before the last patch I restricted the access to the cache folder so none gets created, but with 1.1 patch the game will not run anymore by doing this.
Now after 2-3 days of heavy playing the game feels like it's running worse and I'm gonna try and delete the cache again(it's also very big 1,5gb)
edit after trying out: somehow it runs better again after deleting the cache and it's 3.5k files...
Just noticed this as BF2042 cache (2.2GB) has now maxed out my one drive storage (5GB with 3GB used by folders I actually want).
This has now prevented syncing of my one drive; this is not a trivial issue and needs addressed ASAP.
After the last patch I know longer need to do this but it used to substantially increase how smooth the game was
The problem is that OneDrive doesn't have options to exclude folders. It is intended to be a simple tool that just works for regular users who don't understand such things. As such it is dependent on developers following basic guidelines that are HEAVILY documented and, as a professional developer myself, learned of the problems of dumping internal data into the documents folder from an education campaign ran before I started at university in 1997!!
If an (at the time) amateur teenage developer knew about this 25 years ago, I don't understand how an architect or developer somewhere in a major software house, working on one of the biggest games can still be that far out of date with their knowledge? This is a massively out of date technique that Microsoft has been educating developers about for decades. It just shouldn't be happening and needs to be fixed ASAP!
Yup, C:\Users\AppData\ is the proper location for storing application data. Previous Battlefields store their shader cache data there.
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This is a painful issue that EA likely won't resolve from what I've been reading. Here is a great workaround, especially for those using OneDrive with work credentials.
This process will create a symlink (shortcut) in the Documents folder pointing to the Battlefield 2042 folder in the AppData\Local folder, where it should be...
1. Close Battlefield 2042 and make sure it isn't running
2. Delete the "cache" folder in "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 2042"
3. Move the "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 2042" folder to the desktop
4. Start Menu > Command Prompt > Right Click > Run as administrator
5. Paste the following command ensuring that you have the right USERNAME in this command (notepad helps)
mklink /D "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 2042" "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Battlefield 2042"
7. You will get a response "symbolic link created for..."
8. In your Documents folder you will now see a shortcut called Battlefield 2042
9. Copy the folders in your Desktop\Battlefield 2042 folder to the "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Battlefield 2042" folder
10. Launch Battlefield 2042
11. You may get a pop-up, choose local
The game will load and if you check OneDrive, you should see it removing the folders/files since they aren't in the Documents folder anymore.
Camo Mike
@EA_Atic I accidentally left the game open for night and woke up to 30 gb uploaded which obliterated my data cap and added $60 to my already $250 internet bill. Now I cannot play any game because my data is throttled for the next week, cant watch tv either without massive lag from the throttling. You can confirm this is how the game was developed intentionally and released correct? Seems extremely sloppy to do that with no way of fixing it and a scummy thing to do to loyal customers who stuck their neck out for EA in the first place by buying this unfinished bag of 💩. Devs could have at least programmed a feature that kicks you from matchmaking after being afk for 12 hours lmao, or at least a work around so I'm not uploading GBs worth of data that doesn't need to be uploaded...
any way I could fix this would be appreciated I still want to play it and I hope the devs put out a hotfix soon hopefully by next week when my data cap resets
Assuming there's no update on this at all? Literally posting/bumping this because I can't do anything else on my PC right now while OneDrive grinds everything to a halt trying to upload the 0.5gb from having played one (1!) round late last night.
I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
@Psubond wrote:I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
That is the point, by synchronising my Documents folder to Onedrive (or in my case my M365 tenant) my data is secured in the event my PC catches fire or is stolen. With WFH and BYOD becoming quite prevalent over the pandemic, this type of data protection is super common and enforced in most organisations.
@Psubond wrote:I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
I wouldn't trust Google, but I believe that Microsoft is different, for reasons of self-interest.
For Google, 90%+ of their turnover is from advertising, so for them, the user is the product - they will use and abuse your data in any way they can to make money.
For Microsoft, their turnover comes from Windows, office and increasingly, Cloud services like Office 365 and Azure. They make promises not to touch your data and they rely on having the trust of businesses. If it was found that customer data was being accessed, the loss of trust would be so immense that they would see a huge loss of income from those businesses. Yes, in the short term, they could make some extra money by abusing company data, but it would be such a huge risk that I don't believe they would. A tiny increase in income but at the risk of losing a huge chunk of their core income.
As such, you can read online about the steps they put in place to prevent even the admins who work in Azure datacentres from accessing customer data. If you ever contact their support, it is so frustrating as they have so little access, they can't see enough to help you.
And EA really need to fix this.
