Added extra step of renaming file and deleting long garbage file name.

@BRRABill said in Can You Uninstall OneDrive from Windows 10:

Ah I remember the early days when I would get in so much trouble for using terms like Onedrive.

ONly when you were talking about something other than OneDrive 😉

@brrabill said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:

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@brrabill said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:

Hmmm, sounds like one of those "MS messed up" scenarios we were discussing in the backup thread(s).

Yes, but it's also a "it didn't lose them their data" because they had local copies, scenarios we were also discussing. So a good example of both.

Actually it sounded like MS found them and put them back.

Local copies would also have been removed if they were "deleted" at the MS side.

Good point. The real problem here is the "customer shaming" that MS always does. Anytime MS is at fault, they try to shame the customer. Whether it is through official channels or "look the other way" as their engineers go into communities and do it. MS employees are out there attacking any customer that dares to mention that they've had a problem.

Like in this thread. Even once MS had admitted the mistake, and fixed it, an MS employee was still on the offensive trying to shame the customer and went ballistic once it was obvious he didn't even know how MS products worked.

I ended up with this: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/cloud_sync

I synced a couple of folders on the NAS/OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox/B2.

The size difference on files on my computer was an issue with dropbox on the latest version of Win10. I used my mac to download all files and then moved the Dropbox folder inside OneDrive and got all synced. Apart from some files not being synced all looks good now. I am almost ready to cut Dropbox, part of that I already switched from yearly plan to monthly (was due for renewal on sep), just keeping it a month or two more to finalize.

With the new option of getting MS offoce on unlimited devices and concurrent sign in to 5 devices with the O365 plan ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/You-re-about-to-get-even-more-from-your-Office-365-Home-or/ba-p/234907) along with smart sync, I guess its a great deal

It's a great idea.

Amazing they haven't had it up until now.

Makes using OneDrive or ODfB so much easier if you can sync locally.

@StrongBad said in Query OneDrive:

Awesome, thank you very much. That's what I was looking for.

yw

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@BRRABill said in OneDrive Placeholders Are Returning:

@JaredBusch said

No, you stated that you refuse to use it because it does nothing to prevent crypto from affecting the files.

It is a file sync program that has nothing to do with preventing crypto.

So your entire premise of not using it is not valid.

OK, so I went back and read what I wrote. You are correct in interpreting what my words actually said. What I mean to say is ... I do not use it to sync. My main concern/reason was to not have data locally on my machine, rather than anything to do with crypto- stuff.

I use it without syncing, and it works perfectly for me. Could I sync, and then add the extra step of backing those files up, sure. But it is working fine for me as-is. Would I like a "file structure" on my local PC that works like the way you can easily access OneDrive like the Office apps do? Sure.

Connect to it via WebDav. This is built into Windows 7 and 10 without any additional steps. No files on the local machine, although you still would run into the crypto issues.

I'm going to JB this one - that's just a bandaid to what Bill wants.

True, but it's closer the what he wants then the local sync client.

Compared to what? WebDav if I understand it correctly is similar to a SMB mapped share. If the desire is to have an application front end to data that can't be easily gotten through is the goal, I don't see how WebDav is any better? OneDrive non sync'ed basically is WebDav, at least in function, again, assuming I understand the way it all works.

BTW: when trying to figure out why OneDrive was not showing icons in Windows 10, i came across this article. Perhaps it will fix the icon problem people have been having...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3079213

That is the biggest question, really. And also, if it was saved as a DOCX or an ODT from LibreOffice.

Doh!

@Ambarishrh

Wow...found it! I have less stored than I thought. Most of the heavy and "not allowed stuff" is on my Google Drive.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Crashplan and Amazon Cloud are two different types of services Crashplan is for backups and archives not for immediate access. Cloud storage would be for immediate access only.

True, true. Sadly, some of us are just broke college employees, lol. I have plenty of local storage at home (3TB in 'server', another 3TB for local Crashplan, and also Crashplan in the cloud)... I'm covered. 8-)

I don't like the idea of having a middle man. Also, how the company makes money is unclear to me and I don't like that.

Creating a new document made a difference. I've known that I needed / WANTED to recreate many of the forms and such we have for HR and the departments. A vacation request was created in WORD and dumped to PDF, which forces a person to use a pen to complete it.

A form would be better... Especailly now with the options of OneDrive and Sharepoint....

I bought a Onedrive 50 gig subscription last year to have an online place to save my pictures. Now that I've personally setup my own Office 365 business account I wanted to migrate everything over to that single account - It's been pretty frustrating the past two weeks trying to move items between them and get the sync to work.

Oh the thread, I see.