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Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself

cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I only use Windows at work (because I have to). The thing that drives me fucking nuts, as an advanced computer user in general, is how God damned unintuitive the Office,OneDrive, and File explorer integration is.

I have no idea where I am saving stuff half the time(or more accurately have to change it each time because the defaults are dumb). I don’t want it in my OneDrive downloads folder or OneDrive documents folder. I want it in my fucking laptop download folder or local documents folder.

Then Teams is saving stuff in SharePoint in the background, permissions are annoying AF. At least they’ll flag that a recipient of an email attachment or imbedded url doesn’t have access. So that’s nice I guess.

Oh, then sometimes I’m prompted to save a copy of a shared document, but that’s different from “download a copy”. If you save a copy it just makes a new shared copy for everyone in the SharePoint site.

I feel like a boomer when I work with MS now. Maybe it’s all enterprise settings for where I work and maybe it’s not MS’s fault but hot damn I am so much less productive than if I just used Gsuite, only office, on Mac or .

Maybe I just need to spend a week taking training classes on these products. But who tf has time for that when you have your actual job to do. So I guess that really sums up Microsoft for me: it’s in the way and slowing me down.

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thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Was this at all necessary? You used a generic meme format to reiterate the point someone else made, and because there’s no “hide images in comments” setting yet, it’s just distracting and taking up space.
  
  God damn do I want RES back.
  
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  - stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You seem fun.
    
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    anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    He’s from… That other place.
    
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I guarantee you your comment will annoy significantly more people.
    
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  - nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Be the change you want to see. Make RES for Lemmy?
    
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RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It is not the settings of your enterprise, the file savings mess is 100% on Microsoft. Imo learning to work with it is pointless, since it will be entirely changed sometime in the future again when Microsoft again tries to trick more people into using these programs in order to boost their quarterly statistics.

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Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

saving stuff in SharePoint in the background, permissions are annoying AF

The nice thing about this is that it told me when bosses were snooping around files that I’d never shared with them. I got an automated email from Sharepoint asking to give them permissions.

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ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Same. I was so annoyed with windows slow, useless search at work (I search for pdfs all day) I just wrote a Python program that does that job much, much better.

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rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What you are saying heavily echoes my challenge as a govt employee who used Linux at home. Like why, when I select a folder to save something in, does it revert right back to the nebulous default one minute later? Unacceptable.

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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When saving a file in Word, Excel or whatever, the process looks some thing like this.

ctrl+s

“Save this file” dialogue appears, and it expects I want to dump everything into the root of OneDrive. Well, I don’t.

“Choose location” has some folders, none of which are what I want, because I tend to save my files pretty deep in the tree. Everything has a logical place, you know. I’m not one of those people who have a thousand files and 500 GB on the desktop. I like it neat and tidy.

Click “more options”. Now I can finally navigate to the specific folder I want. If you realize you actually need to create a new folder, this dialogue box isn’t for you. In order to do that, you need to go to “browse” where you’ll get the normal file dialogue box.

Can’t I just jump straight to the browse menu when I press ctrl+s? You know, like the way normal applications do it. Just try to save a file with Inkscape to see what I mean.

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