OneDrive Leaves a Lot to be Desired

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Post by tfmkevin » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:10 PM UTC

OneDrive Leaves a Lot to be Desired
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Re: OneDrive Leaves a Lot to be Desired

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Post by PaulHoule » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

That was the greatest tragedy from the Windows 8 era.

Somehow Dropbox can make cloud sync work, Box can make cloud sync work, Google can make cloud sync work, ...

Microsoft can't.

How is that?

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Post by dddddaviddddd » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:00 PM UTC

Aside from the naming rules, having no LAN sync is a pretty big pain point.

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Post by forgot-my-pw » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:16 PM UTC

Google Drive sync is kinda slow sometimes, Dropbox sync is the best I tried so far (also has delta sync).

Too bad Dropbox upgrades are expensive in comparison because it has no in between plans. 2GB free or 1TB for $120/yr. In comparison, Google Drive 100GB plan is $24/yr.

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Post by justadudeama » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

In my experience it is also painfully slow, even with just one file syncing. I used to do notes on my Surface in OneNote and have them sync with my computer, and sometimes it would take minutes to appear. If I add a large PDF to the note? Might as well forget it.

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Post by caiob » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

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”

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

That was the greatest tragedy from the Windows 8 era. Somehow Dropbox can make cloud sync work, Box can make cloud sync work, Google can make cloud sync work, ... Microsoft can't. How is that?

The survival of Dropbox and Box depend on making cloud sync work, so I suppose there's much more of an impetus for those companies to get cloud sync working.

Microsoft can take it or leave it. They've already got your money.

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Post by jaclaz » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

I may be wrong, but I suspect it is yet another case of "disconnection" between what the MS (in this case but I have seen the same phenomenon with other software) developers have (in terms of hardware, connection speed and bandwidth) and what your average Joe has or can afford.

Since several years softwares seems to be designed by people that have top of the range resources (which is normal since their hardware and connections are their tools of the trade) BUT that somehow don't have contact with "normal" people, using a few years old PC (or phone) and having slow internet for one reason or the other.

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Post by AlphaWeaver » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:30 PM UTC

Would it be appropriate to change the title to "OneDrive leaves a lot to be desired"... I originally thought this was about Microsoft Azure.

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Post by codydh » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:33 PM UTC

caiob wrote: post #6

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”

Anecdata, but same story here. It's been syncing "all" my files for a few years now, and I've had no problems.