OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
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Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#2If you want a picture of the future, picture a stalled progress meter hanging in front of a human face, forever.
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#3You thought the aim of the product was to manage your files in a way convenient to you.
The actual goal was to lock your enterprise into Microsoft cloud services.
Now that this goal has been achieved, support for the product has been wound down to the bare minimum required.
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#4You thought the aim of the product was to manage your files in a way convenient to you. The actual goal was to lock your enterprise into Microsoft cloud services. Now that this goal has been achieved, support for the product has been wound down to the bare minimum required.
It's not even that.
Every megacorp fails at product engineering once things are "stable". The incentive goes away from teams investigating and fixing bugs and instead those teams shift to whatever new thing can get them promotions. Google is very known that problem, but it exists at all big corps.
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#5Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. That has been fine for a few months now.
But like come on, I'm actually paying for this. Yes it's just a part of the Office 365 plan, but it _is_ a part of it.
Actually was considering moving to self-hosting just last week. Any recommendations for a self-hosted Dropbox/OneDrive alternative besides NextCloud?
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#6I always find it amazing, ypy get core functionality that remains broken for months.
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#7Well, it’s not just them. Apple has had broke iCloud syncing on Windows for years. It almost seems purposely designed to make the Windows experience worse by frustrating users with missing files, permanently high CPU usage, etc.
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#8Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. That has been fine for a few months now. But like come on, I'm actually paying for this. Yes it's just a part of the Office 365 plan, but it _is_ a part of it. Actually was considering moving to self-hosting just last week. Any recommendations for a self-hosted D…
I have a product idea that I troll my IT friends with.
A set of four thumb drives that sync to each other over their own WiFi network.
The ratio of works super duper to terrifies the IT staff is off the charts.
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#9Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. That has been fine for a few months now. But like come on, I'm actually paying for this. Yes it's just a part of the Office 365 plan, but it _is_ a part of it. Actually was considering moving to self-hosting just last week. Any recommendations for a self-hosted D…
That depends, why "besides NextCloud"? Syncthing always gets a lot of traction here.
But what do you actually need to share? Folders? Or links to content? PDF? Archives?
Matrix homeservers and clients support most mime types in chat, including zip, so you can send anything and have it searchable in the chat as long as you maintain the matrix server.
Misskey has a "drive" feature, where all media you share goes, but you can also upload directly to it and link directly to media in the misskey drive.
Pastebins work, too. My github^ has the instructions on how to set up the same thing I run, an Up1 pastebin. I'm sure there's better.
But nextcloud has first class mobile clients, understands folders and mime types, can be synced over WebDAV, cifs, http, etc.
So... Up to you?
^ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genewitch/opensource/refs/...
Re: OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
#10Sharing a folder with my SO, and experienced this issue. Only workaround I found was to create an entirely new folder with a different name, and share that. That has been fine for a few months now. But like come on, I'm actually paying for this. Yes it's just a part of the Office 365 plan, but it _is_ a part of it. Actually was considering moving to self-hosting just last week. Any recommendations for a self-hosted D…
I have a product idea that I troll my IT friends with. A set of four thumb drives that sync to each other over their own WiFi network. The ratio of works super duper to terrifies the IT staff is off the charts.
Well that wouldn't work because Wi-Fi is the wrong choice. Buuuuuuuut if you gave them cellular data plans? Now you're onto something. The Boron by particle comes to mind as a low cost dev option. The USB should let you talk to a computer as a flash drive, you can throw an SD card on/external to it for storage, and use the modem to sync to the others. As long as they're all on battery, should be fine.