There are three difficult things in computer science: implementing cache and naming things. The first one also encompasses synchronisation of things, if you're looking for the third one, because it's a surprisingly common problem in software development.
No caching can be implemented preventing cache misses or prompt revalidation and it is always a compromise on accuracy of data. Synchronisation can be implemented without intrinsic potential for conflicts of synchronised data and not all conflicts can be automatically resolved.
Synchronisation eventually always goes wrong and requires manual intervention of knoledgable user. OneDrive just monitors your local folder and occassionally synchronises it with the remote source, of course if it is connected. It rarely is, depending on your password expiration policy. When not connected, it won't tell you, but more importantly it won't resolve any conflicting files if eventually connected.
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Maciej Zagozda
Company founder, and director of engineering.
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