Issues with OneDrive and InDesign files

At our designstudio we are (forced to) using OneDrive as the cloud solution to store and maintain (mostly) InDesign files. Recently we had a project (an annual report) for a client wich has over 60 chapters/subchapters and a total of over 500 pages.

So, previously (when we where working on a MS Fileserver) we decided to split it into several InDesign documents: every chapter (including a TOC) and subchapter as seperate InDesign files. This worked great, because several team-members could work on a single (sub)chapter of the entire document without interfering someone else.

We collect all these seperate InDesign documents in a single InDesign book (a INDB file), create the separate TOC's and the general TOC wihout problems.

But with OneDrive we are forced to generate the complete book locally on one of the designers' Mac. Why, because OneDrive can't cope with the fast opening/reindexing of files and pagenumbers etc. This usually results in InDesign files with the user name appendend to some of these files ( chapter_3.1.2_Name_of_this_chapter_V3_current-user-name.indd ). As a result the InDesign Book file is not valid, and these renamed files do not correspond to the original file !!! Chapter 4.1 in this case could have content that corresponds to chapter 3.12.

It looks like OneDrive is not capable of fast opening and closing of InDesign when creating a book (*.indb) file.

This worries me a (**badwords**) lot!!!

We have also seen that changes to a single chapter document are not synced in realtime. Syncing appears to effectivivly go after 4 hours (WTF) or later (or not), so we had to check and do the changes again and again because we could  not rely on the changes (and updates in OneDrive) when one co-worker did these. But, as most of us are, we are on a time shedule.

This is so (**badwords**) counter-productive and in case of OneDrive, absolutely not reliable!

How can we solve this, and is it resolvable, or should we go for CC Cloud storage or iCloud storage?