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My OneDrive (for Mac) woes are many: - When saving a file, it's sometimes not possible to not have access to the file immediately after saving. This is super f
by joshka 3y ago
My OneDrive (for Mac) woes are many:
- When saving a file, it's sometimes not possible to not have access to the file immediately after saving. This is super fun when you're writing software and you save and then can't compile it.
- The setting to keep every file locally doesn't stop files being ejected and then not kept locally.
- Files that are not local take very long to download (e.g. an 85kb file just now too ~60s on a 1GB fiber connection)
- One drive creates duplicate folders and files during syncing errors
- Some bug in making changes to a word doc and then renaming it made the new changes inaccessible by either the old or new name. This was an old issue, but was particularly stressful when I was working on a ~50 page document with a large amount of edits across the entire doc, that had a hard deadline for submission.
- For a period of time I was unable to login with my account to OneDrive using the Mac software. Support could not give me any indication about why the error was occurring and were unwilling to continue diagnosis - the suggestion was to effectively wipe my user profile and start over
- Eventually in some update the sync client started working, and promptly deleted every file in my OneDrive folder before pulling it down again (100s of GB). A stressful few days of wondering which files would be kept / lost at the end
- Sync speed is reduced to 10s of kbits/s when you have millions of files (on a 1Gbit/s connection this is frustrating)
- Putting any git repo or a nodejs project in OneDrive is problematic due to the millions of files issues, generally results in locking up the process
- No tooling to understand how much syncing time is left and see the overall status of large syncs
- No user accessible user interface / logs to help understand why things are syncing / what is happening under the hood (this wouldn't really be necessary if the rest of the software wasn't so buggy).
There are many more examples I could go into all of little things that OneDrive does that a buggy, broken, or terrible. But my general impression is that the quality of the product (at least on the Mac side of things) is not sufficient to be fit for purpose. OneDrive really has 1 main job: make the data I save available when I need it. If fails at that regularly.
In summary, I wouldn't trust OneDrive to not lose data (but haven't yet moved off it due to inertia and the effort required). I would recommend that other users choose anything other than OneDrive if you care about any of your data long term.