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Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by expedition32 »

Lucasoato wrote: post #69

If you start uploading data to your cloud without my clear consent, I already see a very big problem with your product. If you even substitute the directories in my computer (a standard that was untouched for the last 20 years) in a way to force my stuff into your cloud, then there’s a much bigger problem. Managers who approved this should be thrown out of the company because this is clearly how NOT to make a product…

Microsoft had the idea that PCs are like phones.

Google/Apple sync everything in the background so Microsoft wanted to do it as well.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by f4stjack »

bilekas wrote: post #18

One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had. For enterprise companies, ones I've worked in at least, they will auto sync the users folder /c/Users/(name) with one drive, but there is some weird alternative they have to set on the windows system to actually use a workspace for the user. So when I'm on site somewhere, and have no access to a network that's safe, I can't access fi…

The best thing you can do with an enterprise Onedrive is having long long file and folder names. The moment it exceeds 255 characters, the software application dies. I am ready to hear easier fixes but so far this worked:

- Rename the offending folder from the web

- Unlink the folder from the user's machine

- Delete the existing onedrive folder

- Relink and resync

The best part is, the web side of onedrive has practically unlimited length, the windows part has. As long as you don't sync, you don't experience anything but god forbid if you try to do it.

Also do not get me started on "Add a shortcut/Sync" debate. All in all, onedrive feels like a system that works but will feed you to the wolves the moment it hiccups. But on the enterprise side that's the only game in town so... we suffer altogether.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by Fizz43 »

In an enterprise environment onedrive is perfectly fine. Yet so many developers think they're to good for it. They save their things outside of onedrive and low and behold they lose data. Its so dumb and im yet to hear a good reason why they couldnt have used onedrive.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by SirFatty »

Scroll_Swe wrote: post #51
wartywhoa23 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had. I highly doubt that the need to steal as much data and media from people to train AI was a problem nobody really had.

You are conflating private OneDrive with enterprise Office 365 Sharepoint based solution. Also that came out 10-13 years ago... way before AI. Why are people on this site such midwits?

I guess because the general hatred of Microsoft interferes with people's ability to think logically.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by prepend »

al_borland wrote: post #65
bilekas wrote: post #18

One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had. For enterprise companies, ones I've worked in at least, they will auto sync the users folder /c/Users/(name) with one drive, but there is some weird alternative they have to set on the windows system to actually use a workspace for the user. So when I'm on site somewhere, and have no access to a network that's safe, I can't access fi…

I’ve seen a lot of people have issues with git, because this is going on in the background and they don’t realize it. They’ll change branches, then OneDrive sees files are missing, so it starts pulling them back down. It makes a mess. Any new hire we get, we need to make sure to explicitly tell them not to keep their code in a folder managed by OneDrive, but they never listen. They speak up about a month later, compl…

I keep my code in OneDrive. I probably have hundreds of repos cloned and active. Been going like this since like 2018 or so.

I’ve never had problems except for warnings about deleting lots of filed when I git branch or checkout or whatever.

I would expect onedrive not to pull down files after a checkout because from a file io, it’s deleting and copying in new files, right?

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by lifeisgood99 »

bilekas wrote: post #24
liamwire wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, a problem nobody really had? I wholeheartedly disagree. Data loss and the orthogonal problem of lacking free space on computers is/was a massive problem at enterprise scale and OneDrive, for all its many shortcomings, is well and truly into good-enough territory to cover the 80% case. I'd go so far as to argue that the scenario you've described is by far the less frequent one. And if it frustrates you, you'r…

Data loss and storage is always a challenge, that's why companies will have network drives, network storage that's not strongly coupled with your account acess. OneDrive doesn't solve the problem in a clean way. It adds an extra layer of brittleness.

Sure. And you wouldn't need phishing protections if users had brains. But then you run into real users so hand-holding solutions start to make sense.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by cinntaile »

f4stjack wrote: post #72
bilekas wrote: post #18

One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had. For enterprise companies, ones I've worked in at least, they will auto sync the users folder /c/Users/(name) with one drive, but there is some weird alternative they have to set on the windows system to actually use a workspace for the user. So when I'm on site somewhere, and have no access to a network that's safe, I can't access fi…

The best thing you can do with an enterprise Onedrive is having long long file and folder names. The moment it exceeds 255 characters, the software application dies. I am ready to hear easier fixes but so far this worked: - Rename the offending folder from the web - Unlink the folder from the user's machine - Delete the existing onedrive folder - Relink and resync The best part is, the web side of onedrive has practi…

You can change that setting in Windows so that it no longer has a 255 character limit.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by sieabahlpark »

liamwire wrote: post #21
bilekas wrote: post #18

One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had. For enterprise companies, ones I've worked in at least, they will auto sync the users folder /c/Users/(name) with one drive, but there is some weird alternative they have to set on the windows system to actually use a workspace for the user. So when I'm on site somewhere, and have no access to a network that's safe, I can't access fi…

Come on, a problem nobody really had? I wholeheartedly disagree. Data loss and the orthogonal problem of lacking free space on computers is/was a massive problem at enterprise scale and OneDrive, for all its many shortcomings, is well and truly into good-enough territory to cover the 80% case. I'd go so far as to argue that the scenario you've described is by far the less frequent one. And if it frustrates you, you'r…

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