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Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by knollimar »

cinntaile wrote: post #79
f4stjack wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

One drive still dies though

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by hparadiz »

Double_a_92 wrote: post #59
quietbritishjim wrote: post #28

"Your OneDrive data..." No, it's not my OneDrive data. What an infuriatingly click-bait title. It's OneDrive data for individaul user accounts at organisations that are unlicensed (probably, as the article says, for people that have left).

I'm also unsure what they wanted Microsoft to do. Just store data that apparently doesn't belong to anyone anymore forever?

OneDrive turns itself on after an update so what you think is local data can easily become cloud data. Then while you're not paying attention to a long running system they quietly delete it. Then folks like you come out of the woodwork to defend them. It's hilarious.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by lepton »

prepend wrote: post #77
al_borland wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It needs to read the repo under .git; that’s a lot of files that may not be synced, depending on local disk space, frequency of use, etc. The local disk is just a cache.

There may be an option to Always keep on this device, which might help.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by knollimar »

Scroll_Swe wrote: post #50
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…

And as someone who worked and still works in IT support, users will not save to network drives, their machine will crash and files will be lost. YES, you can do GPO redirect desktop etc to network drive but needs a VPN and sync is also slow. OneDrive has solved this, like it or not. >So when I'm on site somewhere, and have no access to a network that's safe, I can't access files that are in my documents folder, pictu…

Id rather the people being irresponsible with their files lose them than me randomly.

My IT even set up my downloads folder to sync... my job involves downloading 4gb files and throwing them away after I run a script on them frequently...

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by seemaze »

lol, my org recently silently implemented automatic archiving for SharePoint files with mtimes older than 5 years. Woke up to 20,000 files in cold storage and the only user facing remedy is to manually restore each file one at a time.

After speaking with IT for several days, they begrudgingly exempted my site after ‘leadership approval’ but were confounded as to “why anyone would need files older than 5 years”

Forget the AI boom, there still orgs struggling with storage, databases, and email.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by drob518 »

consp wrote: post #55
xnorswap wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had something similar happen where someone linked a blog article, I thought it sounded like slop, especially since they were posting 2-3 articles a day, but I wasn't sure so I checked their back catalogue. I then saw they've always written like that, and always posted 2-3 articles a day, so I figured they're prolific and LLMs copied their style. Then I read their first post again, and realised I should check the wa…

Damn this is horrible. So the author chose to waste everyone's time by expanding with cow manure. I generally don't read much articles online anymore since they are all likely to contain slop unless authored by known non-slop users.

Yea, that’s sad.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by [deleted] »

watwut wrote: post #34
fuzzy2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arguably, this situation is already broken right now. If an organization can't be bothered to use their tools (Sharepoint and the wider O365 ecosystem) correctly, it's entirely on them.

Organization employees use tools in a way that is practical for them. In microsoft case, it often means "incorrectly" and that is on Microsoft too.

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Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by seb1204 »

zamadatix wrote: post #44
bilekas wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Network drives mean no local retention and no real good answer for Windows+Mac+Android+iOS clients to remotely access the files. It also doesn't solve sharing those files externally with granular permissions. All of these kinds things need protection against data loss and centralized control+management, not just the user folder alone.

10 years ago this was not a key requirement. But now it is

Sadly One Drive has pushed out the implementation of proper DMS in some instances.

Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Post by hparadiz »

Sparkenstein wrote: post #5

F OneDrive. They locked me out without any explanation and without any notificaiton, ended my subscription and I lost valuable photos forever. Stay away from it if you are looking for storage for any reason.

This is data theft and there should be criminal charges against Microsoft for this nonsense.
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