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I once lost some important files stored on OneDrive. These were pretty marge media files. There were downloaded as a zip file, apparently successfully. Then, I
by prmph 4y ago
I once lost some important files stored on OneDrive. These were pretty marge media files. There were downloaded as a zip file, apparently successfully. Then, I deleted those files from OneDrive.
Imagine my surprise some time later when I went to access those files. Upon expanding the zip file, I saw that the media files in question had been replaced by some text files, with their content indicating that the download of those media files failed, and instructing me to try to download them again.
What the heck, so I could download a thousand files, which realistically I can't go through one-by-one to check if any have been replaced by a text file, and OndeDrive does not alert me to the fact that some files could not be downloaded.
I already had issues with the slowness and clunkiness of OneDrive, but this was the last straw. I'm migrating all my data from there.
- chii 4y ago> the media files in question had been replaced by some text files this is why a download program should verify with a hash (which should be embedded into the name of the file, or some kind of tracking metadata).
- sebazzz 4y agoSince Microsoft has been outsourcing development and QA for some of their consumer products quality has gone downhill. The picture browser is barely usable. Keeps scrolling back to the top. The iOS file provider sometimes doesn't respond. Downloading 500 photos locally on an iPad results in a unresponding app.
- nh2 4y agoI can confirm this 100%. We have multiple customers that send us data via OneDrive, and for all of them multi-file downloads do not work. Microsoft's ZIP-Streamer to download multiple files simply does not work. The text files contain exceptions with contents such as: PK^C^D^T^@^H^H^@^@<80>L^PS^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@9^@^@^@__myfile.png_Error.txtThis file cannot be downloaded. ExceptionType: ZipMeTAException. CorrelationId: 08132d8f-77b7-4c75-a66b-345e8a15c340, UTC DateTime: 8/16/2021 9:36:53 AMPK^G^H<FB>%Mw<A4>^@^@^@<A4>^@^@^@PK^C^D^T^@^H^H^@^@<80>L^PS^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@-^@^@^@myfile.png<89>PNG This is nondeterministic per file, so you have to either manually click every single file in a folder to download everything to avoid ZIP streaming (you apparently cannot use any API to download files that were just shared via link and no other auth), or repeatedly "download the ZIP to convergence" -- which is exactly as silly as it sounds.