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Possibly related: A few weeks ago I was told to use the autosave option of MS word. The login dialog went through, but then nothing happened. Classic Microsoft.
by nottheengineer 3y ago
Possibly related: A few weeks ago I was told to use the autosave option of MS word. The login dialog went through, but then nothing happened. Classic Microsoft. I reinstalled Onedrive, autosave said it's on and I go ahead with my work. That was friday 3PM. Come monday, I find that the last 2 hours of friday are gone and spend about half an hour looking for it. I Ctrl+S about every 5 seconds so I can't imagine that there's no copy of it anywhere. But there wasn't one, it was just gone.
What happened was that onedrive was stuck trying to upload my VMs (I had those in my _local_ documents folder, which onedrive claimed ownership of during reinstallation without telling me). Onedrive never showed my excel file in the list of files it was uploading, so it could have either tried to do the VMs first and never got to the excel file or quietly errored out on that without ever uploading it.
In any case, I'm still dealing with the fallout of the fatal mistake I made: Trusting a microsoft product to do the absolute fucking basics.
Maybe I'll learn this time.
- robotnikman 3y agoI'm glad I'm no longer on the side of managing Microsoft 365 stuff for a company. I've seen this happen too many times, and of course the user takes it out on you for it. Was so much simpler and reliable in the past just having a NAS and mapping it to a drive. Even my current company still uses NAS for mission critical stuff.
- nottheengineer 3y agoI'm in the position of that user. I have a boss telling me to not turn Team Microsoft's problems into mine. She's happier if I take someone from that team along my troubleshooting journey. It now takes two people's time to arrive at the same conclusion. And most of the time that conclusion is that microsoft screwed up and the only thing we can do is reinstall.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoYou know what local NAS storage isn’t good for? Microsoft’s bottom line.
- ryan87 3y ago> Possibly related: A few weeks ago I was told to use the autosave option of MS word. I don't think this would be related. I have no reason to suspect any data loss from OneDrive. It's the backups that are failing for me. If I had to restore from backup right now, it wouldn't match what's stored in OneDrive.
- nottheengineer 3y agoOnedrive uses sharepoint as a backend, so maybe there's a bug in there that causes both issues.
- cyanydeez 3y agoSharePoint is a garbage machine. If you value local documents.
- hulitu 3y agoAutosave was buggy from the begginning. It basicaly does not have any protection if for some reason the operation was interrupted.