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ACtUaLlY I LiKE oNeDRivE
Disgusting. Immoral. The degeneration of the youth made manifest.
Not gonna lie, OneDrive at work integrated with Mail, Teams & Word is super convenient mainly because at work we’re forced to use it. But my dude, Microsoft. My friends and family do not want to use it, so stop asking.
yeah and I don’t see it being any worse than google drive. you can just use it as web storage.
It’s one drive adjacent, but I have 1 question.
Who at Microsoft thought in their infinite wisdom that they could remake the file browser but only for saving in O365. I hit save in word and it shows me some buggy list of random directories that you can’t navigate through, instead of opening a good old file explorer browse/save window. An engineer made the perfect solution 35 years ago, but that doesn’t look good enough for the new office design scheme so let’s make it nonfunctional.
It’s not about the needs of users any more. Hasn’t been for a long time. It’s all about how can we leverage our monopoly to squeeze the maximum revenue out of users. Sadly, most people just don’t care so they get what they deserve.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but there is a settings in either the office products or group policy that makes it use the old open/save dialogs. I remember setting it up for an octogenarian relative who couldn’t adjust to change.
I guess older frogs are more susceptible to temperature changes.
Tbh the SharePoint environment can be very nice to work with when done right.
Just pay through the nose
I mean a single person can have email under their domain, and a terabyte of OneDrive and SharePoint storage for like less than 10 CAD a month. Not bad.
It’s wonderful… in a business environment where it is configured well. Nowhere else.
Each user gets their own personal onedrive. More space than any single user will ever need at work, and you set it up to seamlessly back up most of the folders in the user profile (not the full profile because that will break shit).
No need to fuck around with the hijacking of the save menu. Save shit where you normally do and it’ll just sync. Integration with Office 365 means that if you open the same office doc simultaneously on multiple machines it just treats it like collaborative editing by multiple users, so no edit conflicts.
Any non-office file takes two minutes at max to sync to other machines you’re logged into if you’re at the office. Up to five minutes over VPN. Icons overlaid on each file’s icon or preview thumbnail clearly indicate the sync status.
Sharing files and collaboration is done through old school NTFS shares or Office 365 Sharepoint sites (often linked to a Teams group). Users can share amongst themselves between their OneDrives, but we reccomend
I’m using it in a business setting, and hate it. Our company has lost about a thousand hours of work from OneDrive corrupting git repos. Everyone at the company is aware that you must NEVER allow OneDrive to touch a git repo, but OneDrive keeps adding directories without consent or notification, so people’s git repos keep getting corrupted.
Maybe it’s the IT department, or maybe Onedrive just sucks.
OneDrive doesn’t take over directories without being told to. And specifically, it’s “Known Folders Move” system, only does Documents, Desktop, and Pictures. If KFM is being turned on without user consent, that is IT’s fault. If it is including folders outside those 3? Also IT’s fault.
It corrupting git repos? Not sure on that one. It doesn’t feel like OneDrive should be doing that, but it does struggle with unusual read/write patterns, so I’m guessing the way git is working doesn’t resemble a standard file saving, and Microsoft being full of developers and owning github should probably be accounting for that use case.
Way back when it was SkyDrive, for some reason I was given some huge (for the time) amount of space “for life”. Can’t remember why. For being a Windows dev maybe? Idk.
Some years later, I did an Office sub for a couple years, which also came with OneDrive space. When I let the Office sub expire, the fuckers took away my lifetime space. Cunts.
One drive works fine on macOS. It even uses the APIs that macOS provides for iCloud Drive like functionality so the OS can properly handle files that are not yet downloaded.
Now Teams… Teams is a complete pile of shit. So is sharepoint.
If you use one drive with those, I can see how you have more problems.
I had to put the Teams app on my phone a few weeks back for some bullshit meeting that, for some reason, wouldn’t work properly in my browser. Had the meeting, forgot about Teams.
Was in my car earlier and noticed a different app out of the corner of my eye on the CarPlay screen.
Fucking Teams.
What kind of prick is taking a Teams call while driving? And why have MS even made that possible?
I mean we use teams as our phone system, so this is just like taking the general phone calls.
Some of us don’t get to leave work at the door all the time, and this just allows us to use teams like a phone without having to give out a personal number.
What kind of prick is taking a Teams call while driving?
So many people, mainly management and C levels in my experience. My CITO (and the one before him) do it all the time, as well as tons of customer contacts. At least once a month I’m on a conference call where someone is driving.
One Drive is just Sharepoint.
As I have since learned at work, everything is a sharepoint, even teams :(
What’s wrong with OneDrive? I use it and it’s fine.
For one thing, just like Google Drive, MS scans everything and won’t let you store stuff they disagree with.
Example: batch files that modify things like KMS settings. These have a legitimate use in business environments, but MS sees them as hacking their stuff.
They don’t warn you either, the sync jobs just fail. Like a OneNote notebook will just fail to sync, with no reason why.
