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>”Wait, what? OneDrive can’t handle Microsoft’s own file types? Sure enough, the official online help says you have to move the offending files to a different f
by zelos 8y ago
>”Wait, what? OneDrive can’t handle Microsoft’s own file types? Sure enough, the official online help says you have to move the offending files to a different folder that OneDrive can’t see”
How does something like that ship? That’s going to affect virtually every Office user. Why not just filter out files that won’t sync and warn the user?
- AgentME 8y agoAlso, what makes those combinations of bytes unsupported by OneDrive? I get that OneDrive might have some special support and recognition for certain filetypes, but I assume it also supports unknown file types ... so why on earth would they make it specially recognize certain file types just to blacklist them?
- aj7 8y agoI don’t “get” this at all. I want my cloud services to act like dumb mechanical drives, but ones that never break and have zero mass.
- winthrowe 8y agoBecause you're holding it wrong. The blacklisted file types are frequently changing, tanking your sync performance, and the client applications that use them communicate directly with their backend services. I'm not saying it's a good reason, but it's not completely arbitrary.
- java-man 8y agoHow did Windows 10 ship? The thing constantly overrides user-set preferences: fonts, colors, and worst of all - default apps. Reports usage data to Microsoft with no way to turn it off. An update mechanism that lives its own dominating life, interrupting user workflow whenever it wants.
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoTo be fair, it was replacing Windows 8.
- desiarnezjr 8y agoIn hindsight, Windows 8 wasn't that bad overall. The real disaster was the Metro UI, but the underlying OS was relatively unobtrusive and a bit more performant than Win7. Once something like Classic Shell was installed, it was pretty slick and reliable. My last Windows machine now runs 10 begrudgingly, and compared to my daily drivers MacOS and Ubuntu, it's a shockingly inconsistent operating system. I don't rely on it for "real work" thankfully.
- java-man 8y agoClassic Shell was great. Looking back, going from XP to 7 to 8 to 10, I can't think of any improvement, but the user experience got consistently worse. This might be the Second Law of Thermodynamics at work, but seriously, I don't understand how these things got shipped.
- justwalt 8y agoFWIW, I think the multiple desktops feature in 10 is a good quality of life change. Past that I’d probably agree. Give me any other modern OS before Windows.
- donmcronald 8y agoThere are other pain points too. One I ran into lately is the business version of OneDrive uses a fixed folder name based off your company name and it's hard to change. For example: C:\Users\Rumpelstiltskin\OneDrive - Rumpelstiltskin's Gold Spinning Services Inc.\ Then you realize that Excel has a 218 character path limit on file names and things get ridiculous really fast.
- weberc2 8y agoReminds me of the days when Eclipse wouldn't run on Windows because Windows filepaths were fixed and Java package paths/identifiers (which I guess map to filesystem paths?) are crazy verbose.
- pixl97 8y agosubst X: C:\Users\Rumpelstiltskin\OneDrive - Rumpelstiltskin's Gold Spinning Services Inc.\ Annoying, but it does work.
- donmcronald 8y agoThen you're married to mapped drives like that and anyone you share with has trouble syncing files unless they're using the same trick. I also managed to create path structures that crashed the OneDrive client when I was testing that. Eventually I settled on abbreviating company names and putting OneDrive in C:\OD, so: C:\OD\OneDrive - RGSS\Shared Folder\ Not great, but better. Then when you share files and someone else syncs, they get: C:\OD\RGSS\Rumpelstiltskin - Shared Folder\ And it all goes to hell again. Lol. The base path length's are reasonably close though and seems to work ok.
- amanzi 8y agoPST files are tricky because they often get to hundreds of MB or GBs in size. And every time Onedrive detects a change it will create a backup of that file and sync up the changes. So you quickly end up with hundreds of backup copies of your huge PST file consuming all your Onedrive storage. So the recommendation is to not store your PST files in your Onedrive folder. I assume the same advice would apply if using Dropbox or other cloud storage providers.
- lozenge 8y agoRsync solves this - it can transfer only the changed parts. And past versions can be saved as diffs and take very little space.