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sgibson5150 May 15, 2024

Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog

Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog - SLRPNK

“If you don’t save your data to someone else’s computer then we can’t monetize it.” I know they’re not explicitly selling SkyDrive or OneDrive or whatever it’s called now, but they kinda are. What’s funny is, this file is stored in an encrypted container that does live in the cloud. 😄

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alyth May 15, 2024

I only use Windows in corporate settings and OneDrive / file management has been the single biggest pain point for me, by far.

Deleted files magically reappearing
Files not showing up after saving
Confusing save location of files
Confusing navigation in the file manger

Windows tries to copy Apple and fails miserably.

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Bruncvik

I’ve had exactly the same experience. Let me addd one more: when OneDrive decides to back up open files, they ate regularly deleted both from local and cloud. Those are the files I tend to use the most, and I grew so frustrated that I ended recreating my Documents folder steucture in my Downloads folder, which doesn’t get synced. (IT is useless; when I complained abou that, they told me that One Drive was a third-party application, and they didn’t support those. )