Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well considering that I’ve been in the IT industry for over 20 years at this point. And as long as you have things set up properly and you know how things work then this really isn’t an issue. It’s not just my personal experience is also the experience of any of my clients it’s experience of any of the places that I’ve ever worked at it’s the experience of any of the thousands of people that I’ve interacted with and probably tens of thousands of people have interacted with over the past 20 years.

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  • Angelevo@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hold the middle ground. When set up properly, the services do tend to work just fine when left alone. Consumers often have automatic updates enabled, that is where shit hits the fan sometimes. I have had the issue of files disappearing. Fortunately, they reappeared some time after. Not sure what Microsoft was doing – we will never know.

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  • vandsjov@feddit.dk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been in the IT business for 26 years and I’ve seen software screw up, even when configured correct. OneDrive have lost many files for people to the point that Microsoft more or less apologised for it in 2015.

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    • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OneDrive is shit though.

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      • vandsjov@feddit.dk ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Maybe, I just don’t like “And as long as you have things set up properly and you know how things work then this really isn’t an issue” - you can set things up correctly and then it still screws up. Everything works perfectly until it doesn’t.

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      • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh I fully agree out of all of these options one drive is definitely the worst of them. And I’ve seen many many files lost through one drive because it’s really difficult to configure it correctly and most the time it’s fucked up because Microsoft continually changes what you can and can’t do with it and how it updates and how it doesn’t update and now with the latest change and the forcing of users to utilize it it’s becoming even worse.

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  • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t have backups for your files on Google drive?

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course I do. But it’s also my backup for files. You always have at least 2 if not 3. 

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      • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Okay, because you’re responding to a person saying they’ve lost files, on an article thread about people losing files. You seem to have all the tools to understand what’s being discussed and yet you’re still being obtuse about it.

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