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How does something like that ship? That’s going to affect virtually every Office user. Why not just filter out files that won’t sync and warn the user?
I agree that uploading is on the slow side and have encountered the OneNote errors the author refers to. However, suggesting that somehow in 2018 2FA in a mainstream online service should be on by default borders to insanity. I must spend 10 minutes to explain to a normal person what 2FA is, and almost everyone loses interest afterwards. His Windows Hello criticism is also irrelevant, since it is completely optional and easily ignored.
I also use CrashPlan, because cloud storage isn't backup. :)
>”Wait, what? OneDrive can’t handle Microsoft’s own file types? Sure enough, the official online help says you have to move the offending files to a different folder that OneDrive can’t see” How does something like that ship? That’s going to affect virtually every Office user. Why not just filter out files that won’t sync and warn the user?
>”Wait, what? OneDrive can’t handle Microsoft’s own file types? Sure enough, the official online help says you have to move the offending files to a different folder that OneDrive can’t see” How does something like that ship? That’s going to affect virtually every Office user. Why not just filter out files that won’t sync and warn the user?
The thing constantly overrides user-set preferences: fonts, colors, and worst of all - default apps. Reports usage data to Microsoft with no way to turn it off. An update mechanism that lives its own dominating life, interrupting user workflow whenever it wants.
We made the decision two years ago to run our company on OneDrive, and we've experienced almost everything covered in this article (except the .pst and one-note file issues because we don't use them).
That being said, I don't really know of a good alternative. It mostly works. Until those really random days when it just chokes on something and you have no idea why. And then you can be effed.
I backup the partition every month or tow just to make sure.
If anyone has ideas (and I've got non-tech users across windows and Mac), I'd love to hear about it. Honestly, if I could run something else covering a few dozen gigs of documents, I would.
iCloud doesn’t get a lot of love around here, but it’s been one of the most stable cloud services that I’ve been using for the past couple of years or so. It really lives up to Apple’s motto of “it just works”