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I feel that OneDrive is a piece of $&!+. Not that it's bad, but that it's randomly inconsistent. We made the decision two years ago to run our company on OneDr

by MR4D 8y ago

I feel that OneDrive is a piece of $&!+. Not that it's bad, but that it's randomly inconsistent. We made the decision two years ago to run our company on OneDrive, and we've experienced almost everything covered in this article (except the .pst and one-note file issues because we don't use them). That being said, I don't really know of a good alternative. It mostly works. Until those really random days when it just chokes on something and you have no idea why. And then you can be effed. I backup the partition every month or tow just to make sure. If anyone has ideas (and I've got non-tech users across windows and Mac), I'd love to hear about it. Honestly, if I could run something else covering a few dozen gigs of documents, I would.

brianmcc 8y ago
DropBox?
- mulletbum 8y ago
  Dropbox doesn't contain the same feature set as OneDrive with Office.
  - brianmcc 8y ago
    Fair enough - didn't realise that!
laurentl 8y ago
We just started using AWS workdocs, which has clients for Mac and Windows (plus iOS and Android iirc). You can either use it as a network drive (Windows only and not fully baked yet) or as a synched folder. There’s also a web interface where you can see the different versions, comment on a file, and which has a decent integration with Office (Workdocs Companion): the file opens in Office, you save your changes and it gets updated remotely. Honestly it’s not great (esp. the UIs which definitely need improvement) but it seems much less erratic than OneDrive. Plus they have frequent updates and they seem to read the questions on the support forum so I’m cautiously hopeful it’ll improve over time. However the best document sharing experience I had was with Jive. It’s what Sharepoint should have been. You get a nice, powerful intranet and a great plugin for Office which makes editing a shared, online file as easy and seamless as a local one. Unfortunately they don’t have a SaaS model (last time I checked) so you have to buy the software and set up and manage the infra yourself.

by MR4D 8y ago

brianmcc 8y ago

DropBox?

mulletbum 8y ago
Dropbox doesn't contain the same feature set as OneDrive with Office.
- brianmcc 8y ago
  Fair enough - didn't realise that!

laurentl 8y ago

We just started using AWS workdocs, which has clients for Mac and Windows (plus iOS and Android iirc). You can either use it as a network drive (Windows only and not fully baked yet) or as a synched folder. There’s also a web interface where you can see the different versions, comment on a file, and which has a decent integration with Office (Workdocs Companion): the file opens in Office, you save your changes and it gets updated remotely. Honestly it’s not great (esp. the UIs which definitely need improvement) but it seems much less erratic than OneDrive. Plus they have frequent updates and they seem to read the questions on the support forum so I’m cautiously hopeful it’ll improve over time. However the best document sharing experience I had was with Jive. It’s what Sharepoint should have been. You get a nice, powerful intranet and a great plugin for Office which makes editing a shared, online file as easy and seamless as a local one. Unfortunately they don’t have a SaaS model (last time I checked) so you have to buy the software and set up and manage the infra yourself.