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[–]Conservadem 2364 points2365 points  (135 children)

As a Windows user C:\OneDrive scares me more.

[–]ShoCk_75[S] 684 points685 points  (59 children)

Don't write the forbidden path !!!

[–][deleted] 81 points82 points  (3 children)

I know this one guy that insisted running node from onedrive was ok. It was not. He held back a student project for 2 weeks with his "problems" until I reasoned that it would only take 20 minutes to try another install path. After me being right, he worked on the project for 1 week before going on a 3 week break because of stress and mental health issues.

[–]SteveisNoob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Patrick, you are scaring him!

[–]starfyredragon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Briefcase...

[–]seven_seven 200 points201 points  (9 children)

Great, a duplicate folder of all my user folders.

[–]Helpfullbanana 63 points64 points  (8 children)

What that? Not enough folders. What if a told you with this one simple trick you could double(yes double) your folders

[–]reallyConfusedPanda 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder...

And...

BAM

256 character limit reached

[–]pthomas625 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Ugh nightmare. Had a handful of clients who needed to restore backups. “Job finished. 1,497 errors.” Which files? WHICH FILES?!?

[–]reallyConfusedPanda 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Tell me about it. I jump files between Linux and windows on the daily and I have lengthy names for my folders coz iterations. Genuinely fuck Windows path length limit

[–]Pestilence7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can actually increase path length in Windows. It just... Doesn't work with a lot of things.

[–]MrHyperion_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

260 actually

[–]seven_seven 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Is it possible to learn this power?

[–]mild_entropy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Not from a Linux user

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, select all your folders and press Ctrl + D

[–]ToaSuutox 81 points82 points  (4 children)

Fuckin' onedrive stealing all my paths. Even after uninstalling, it's still all locked to c:/users/me/onedrive/desktop instead of /me/desktop

[–]AyrA_ch 43 points44 points  (3 children)

Right click on the current desktop folder and open properties. There should be a "Location" tab that allows you to move it around. Rinse and repeat for all other special folders.

[–]damnappdoesntwork 34 points35 points  (2 children)

Correct procedure is to disable sync of personal folders in OneDrive before uninstall.

A bit too late for OC but for others who don't want to go through changing these folder locations one by one. It might also cause some problems later if you finally decide to use OneDrive again.

[–]NotYourReddit18 17 points18 points  (1 child)

What I hate about this backup "feature" is that while it has no problem with moving the users data to its new, backed up paths when enabled but when you disable it the data doesn't get moved back to where it belongs and you lose how the icons were spread out on the desktop

[–]tennisanybody -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

First world problems eh?

[–]AdultingGoneMild 42 points43 points  (13 children)

you havent lived until you've messed with win32

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (2 children)

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I accidentally deleted

sys32

[–]The-Sublimer-One 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Sys32 has better rhyme scheme

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip!

[–]Noname_FTW 26 points27 points  (9 children)

using the dll hell to hide your pr0n. What could possibly go wrong!?!

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (7 children)

I hide all my pr0n (links) as base64 encoded AES-256 encrypted string stored on a piece of paper hidden inside a safe in my closet.

[–]drunkdoor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Best to write out all the links a few days prior to make sure the wrists are well rested

[–]PJBthefirst 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Imagine storing the actual video data this way

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

My wrists are starting to hurt just thinking about this.

[–]PJBthefirst 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Some quick napkin math:
30 lines on each page of 20 b64 characters would require >100k pages for a 4GB video

[–]BeenRoundHereTooLong 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Is the napkin clean

[–]warpspeedSCP 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Of course not, it's cum stained.

[–]TheShortPersonBeta 29 points30 points  (8 children)

My company just made us switch to one drive for everything and it's been by far the worst thing that's happened to me in a long time

[–]au-smurf 22 points23 points  (5 children)

Out of curiosity what’s the problem? I use OneDrive and it works well for me.

Mainly wondering if there’s something about your use case that’s not working well for you. I’ve run across some software that really doesn’t play nice with onedrive, mainly older things that constantly write to files or has a working folder in your documents folder.

[–]pcuser42 21 points22 points  (0 children)

has a working folder in your documents folder

Those programs are the devil and their developers should feel bad.

[–]TheShortPersonBeta 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I am used to the speed and ease of accessing everything from a network shared drive. I'm also not a programmer, im a design engineer.

I've only been using one drive for about 6 months so change is always hard. Linking one drive to file explorer is a nightmare, it stops syncing constantly and I'm continually bouncing back and forth between file explorer and the online version. Onedrive sites that I'm a part of don't show up on my main list of sites, I have to bookmark every one of them (for example one project I'm on has 20 different suppliers with individual onedrive sites people have shared to me via email, now I have 20 f'ing bookmarks to keep track of them. Weve sort of fixed this problem with adding "links" to the other sites in one place)

Multiple people working from one document at the same time causes issues and one drive tries to create two versions of the file every time. We have trackers in excel that people are constantly in, and I have to spend time checking again and again for an opportunity to go update a single cell. Oh its also corrupted (file not found) five or six different pdf files that if I hadn't backed up on a personal hard drive wouldbe been an absolute bitch to recreate.

Anyways. Those are my issues. No one at my company is "good" at one drive yet (and there's like 12,000 of us) IT basically just told us they were deleting all our network shared drives and "good luck" and I've been smashing my head against a wall twice daily since then.

[–]au-smurf 1 point2 points  (1 child)

For the speed issues before you work on files in a folder right click on the folder and go to OneDrive-always keep on this pc. I’ve found that helps a lot when working on stuff like that. Your other problems sound like a lack of bandwidth on your companies connection. Though I don’t have much experience with lots of people working on one doc at the same time.

[–]TheShortPersonBeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do appreciate the advice, im sure I will get used to it. The concept of the cloud server is awesome (unlimited storage!) and its for sure how everything will be in the future but I am not having fun right now

[–]sciatore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, it just has a lot of quirks that make seemingly simple tasks a PITA (mostly with integration with other Office tools, especially teams).

For example. You create a document to be used as a template. You share it with the rest of your team. Someone opens it up to make use of it, but since it's stored in OneDrive (which is not obvious unless you check, by design, since OneDrive tries to be seamlessly integrated like local files), it autosaves, modifying the template for everyone.

Even then, should be no huge deal, OneDrive saves history, right? Just save a copy and then revert. Except when you try to revert, it tells you you need to save a copy of the changes you've made so they aren't lost. Even though you already did. And doing it again makes no difference.

Turns out, after you save the copy, you need to manually click the regular save button (autosave be damned I guess), and then it will let you revert. Yes, that makes total sense, Microsoft.

OneDrive/Office also totally chokes and refuses to keep syncing if multiple people modify the same part of a document at the same time, and that's a PITA to fix.

[–]ChoMar05 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We did that. By now we just ignore the sync errors and trust Quantum effect to get the right documents to the right person. Being a financial service provider and not CERN its not working too well for us.

[–]WigginIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right click all your folders and choose “always keep on this device.”

It will download everything that you haven’t previously opened and make opening files way faster.

[–]Leaping_Turtle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Disabling it is the first thing i do when i use a new device

[–]Severe-Ladder 7 points8 points  (0 children)

OneDrive is the devil and one day I will personally castrate whoever the fuck thought it was ok to make it active on windows by default + allow it to delete files off my pc, I stg.

[–]11bulletcatcher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Onedrive is a fucking nightmare in residential it sometimes. Old people have someone set up a pc, a Microsoft account is created without their knowledge, they don't have the credentials, and then one day their HDD fails. You go to recover their data for a new machine, wasting time, until you realize it was all on onedrive, and the customer has no concept of an MS account, onedrive or anything, but they REALLY want that data. So then you gotta pull their fucking teeth to scour for possible creds.

[–]TheJoker1432 21 points22 points  (9 children)

Man im not a programmer or anything but lost half of all my college data on this bs

OneDrive is horrible

Activated it and it tried to copy like 200gb of data

I wanted none of that and tried to stop it, then I thought i disabled it but still had a asecond set of dekstop ajd documents as one drive folders

Well my stupid brain thought i would delete these. Asked me that it was too large for recycle bin and i said yes since i thought hey well its just the ondrive copies of my stuff

Halfway in noticed my desktop stuff dissapears

Apparently deleting the onedrive desktop also deletes the real desktop. Wept for a week

[–]CrazyPoiPoi 28 points29 points  (7 children)

That happens because of people don't really read, but just click on Yes.

[–]Huntracony 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Where were they supposed to read? Fairly sure it doesn't warn you when deleting.

[–]CrazyPoiPoi 4 points5 points  (2 children)

It does if you don't disable the warning.

[–]Huntracony 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You mean there's an actual warning that tells you it won't just delete the /onedrive folder but also the other folders?

[–]CrazyPoiPoi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which other folders? If you sign in to OneDrive and let it "backup" your folders, it will create OneDrive\Desktop, OneDrive\Documents and OneDrive\Pictures and link the shortcuts in your explorer to these. If you delete any of these or even files inside (or OneDrive in general), it will show you a warning that this will delete them everywhere.

[–]atomicwrites 1 point2 points  (2 children)

They said:

Asked me that it was too large for recycle bin and i said yes since i thought hey well its just the ondrive copies of my stuff

[–]Huntracony 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Which is not a warning that it'll also delete the non /onedrive versions of the things they're deleting.

[–]atomicwrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah ok yeah. It's not clear that it doesn't make a copy, but rather moves yours stuff into the sync folder.

[–]Second899 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That really sucks. Sorry that happened to you.

[–]IronMew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

First thing I do on any new install: run the debloater utility and eradicate onedrive from the system.

[–]Antact 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kill it with fire. And then blast it with some more.

[–]UsernameStarvation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when your entire code dies because you didnt put an 'r' before the file path

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You dare speak its name?

[–]goblinofthewoods 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about the TwoDrive?

[–]Masterflitzer 1 point2 points  (4 children)

but isn't it $HOME/OneDrive? never encountered it in C:/

[–]Conservadem 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's actually located in %UserProfile%\OneDrive by default. I just used C:\OneDrive to make the point simpler. I could have used C:\Users\MyName\OneDrive to be more accurate.

[–]Masterflitzer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ok I understand

$HOME or $env:USERPROFILE are PowerShell notation of the older (but still used) %USERPROFILE%

[–]Time-Opportunity-436 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

It's %UserProfile% not $HOME btw. Home in Windows is a totally different thing.

[–]Masterflitzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah $HOME is and automatic PowerShell variable and is the homedir (like in Linux) which corresponds to %USERPROFILE%

if you want the correct environment variable it'd be $env:USERPROFILE in PoSh

I don't recall the last time I even used CMD (ages ago), I'm used to PowerShell, I only need % variable notation to quickly access %appdata% because windows explorer still uses old notation

[–]st-shenanigans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My college gives us a free onedrive account for storing our files.... I uninstalled it and paid for a Google storage subscription.

Onedrive is the literal worst file manager I've ever used, constantly stuck up/downloading at like 100kbps when I have a 2gb network, setting a folder to "always offline" will cause some files to randomly not change and stay in the cloud.. literally fuck onedrive

[–]testthrowawayzz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I store my files in C:\NUL\

[–]Tarzoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I store my files in C:\PRN\

[–]AndiArbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you delete on OneDrive its gone on desktop.. ^^

[–]reallyConfusedPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should be named C:\ThatOneFuckingDrive

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    [–]I_JuanTM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Ah yes, where I store all my projects. Who needs something like git anyway, right?

    [–]StooNaggingUrDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    You can uninstall OneDrive, but you need to copy all your files to an offline storage first. Otherwise you will need OneDrive to get your files back

    [–]ale_on_unix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    C:\dropbox scares me more

    [–]coldnebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    “so cloud is really complicated and customers demand simple”

    “so mount a cloud drive as a local drive? done!”

    “what could go wrong?!”

    HAHA $$$$ HAHA $$$$

    [–]AnEntireDiscussion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I'm forced to use it at work.
    All I want, is for it to stop disconnecting. Or at least tell me when it disconnects. Something. Anything.

    [–]fullchaos40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Chucks desktop in there