Fix OneDrive for Mac CPU usage

fix_onedrive.sh

#!/bin/bash
## Fix OneDrive for Mac CPU usage
## 
## Seems this is still a problem 5 years later after I created this little gist.
## I have long since stopped using OneDrive (luckily), but according to
## comments below, I have added the new path for OfficeFileCache for macOS
## Mojave (10.14) and Catalina (10.15).

## Run this on macOS Mojave (10.14) and Catalina (10.15)
find ~/Library/Containers/ -type d -name OfficeFileCache -exec rm -r {} +

## Run this if you're on pre-Mojave (< 10.14)
find ~/Library/Group\ Containers/ -type d -name OfficeFileCache -exec rm -r {} +

I have macOS 13.2.1 and OneDrive (OD) 23.048.0305.0002 (standalone). I was tired-up of this OD for a long time since they removed the system kernel extensions support. I have over 200k files of 780 GB of data. Although, I noticed the OneDrive macOS app of 2018 was terrible with high CPU usage and memory. However, it improved over time, and after December 2021, the fileprovider (removing the system kernel extension support) messed up OD. This was the problem from the end of 2021.

I was reluctant to use OD's Files On-Demand feature on mac, as I needed them even without an internet connection. Yesterday, I reset the OD on mac, which is now on the Files On-Demand. I do not see any spike in CPU and memory usage. However, sometimes it says processing changes for an extended period of time when syncing 365 files. I will observe the behavior of Files On-Demand for some time to come up with a conclusion.

I hope this helps someone if they have a similar issue.

does this manifest with extended delays in Open/Save modal dialogs with some indiciates that something is horrible wrong in XPC-space?