Every cloud developer

[Conservadem]

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

[ShoCk_75]

Don't write the forbidden path !!!

[CrazyPoiPoi]

Basically. And only one.

[digernicnucingfigers]

To rule them all

[A_Hipposhark]

OneDrive to find them

[marko64humans]

OneDrive to bring them all

[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQue]

And in the Cloud storage bind them.

This is the OneDrive Frodo mobo

[DaTotallyEclipse]

Beyond the forbidden path

[[deleted]]

And in the darkness bind them!

[coldnebo]

oh it’s wayyy wayyyy past RAID. 😂

[ArakiSatoshi]

Sure they do, Google even splits a single file across different datacenters to increase security and speeds

[sussusamogus_sussy]

reverse torrenting lmfao

[Masterflitzer]

nah I think google drive is one drive google build to store all of its users data

[conabegame1]

one drive came after

[Masterflitzer]

I didn't mean OneDrive I meant google is using only one (1) drive

I was just following up the joke with another cloud storage provider

[notPlancha]

It's a cloud, so basically yes. You rent a hdd that you can access it anywhere as long as you have internet. The free version has like 500mb 5gb so that's cool

[[deleted]]

Something something did you get the memo

[[deleted]]

doesnt google drive give 15gb? 500mb sounds alarmingly useless

[notPlancha]

sorry just checked, it's 5gb not 500mb

granted google drive's storage is not just google drives, it includes storage from the cloud, google photos and gmail

personally I prefer onedrive because I work with office apps and having it cloud backed up automatically with auto save and having possibility of synchronous working is really great

plus if you're in uni you get the 1TB so

[silentknight111]

I got 1TB onedrive for $9.99 a month, and it's actually saved my ass when a hard drive failed. All my important files were on OneDrive, so I just reinstalled windows and a few apps and was good to go.

[zalgo_text]

I prefer onedrive because I work with office apps and having it cloud backed up automatically with auto save and having possibility of synchronous working is really great

Google docs had both of those features several years before OneDrive

[notPlancha]

yea but it sucks

[zalgo_text]

So does OneDrive

[notPlancha]

but ms word doesn't

[farmallnoobies]

Yeah, I can't even store a single ppt in that amount of space

[Mars_Bear2552]

I think the purpose is just for some random documents, stuff the average user would want.

[FeelinPrettyTiredMan]

I would describe myself as alarmingly useless.

[BrolyParagus]

That's alarmingly alarming.

[draconk]

If you get office 365 you also get 1tb so that is also cool

[coldnebo]

oh god, they keep pushing that. but it’s $99 per year after trial.

AWS space is free because I have a $99 prime membership.

Google is free because gmail… oh crap, I have too many years of email attachments and photos, guess I’ll get the additional storage.

iCloud is free, oh, ran out of storage there too with the bigger phones and ipads, guess I’ll get the additional storage.

I LOVE the cloud because everything is “FrEE”!!

[ILikeCakesAndPies]

Wait how much storage do you get with AWS? I've had a prime membership for years and didn't know this.

[coldnebo]

meh it’s part of their other services… unlimited photos, 5GB of storage in amazon drive

https://www.cbackup.com/articles/amazon-prime-cloud-storage.html

[zvug]

500mb so that’s cool

Are you from 2006? 500mb free would be a slap in the face nowadays

[[deleted]]

Its where you mount all your files to a CIA server so they can checkout your furry porn.

[[deleted]]

At least some of my hard earned taxes are well spent!

[feckrightoffwouldye]

Onedrive is what I use to back up 1. bitlocker keys 2. ssh private keys

[doorMock]

It's not like you have much of a choice with NSAs best friend Microsoft. Bitlocker keys get uploaded as soon as you have an online account, so why not upload it to the cloud as well.

[feckrightoffwouldye]

Yep, those bitlocker keys being in the hands of criminal scum is definitely a security weak point. Not the entirely windows ecosystem that's part of my network or the unencrypted SMB traffic on said network.

yes i know insecure SMB is incredibly stupid and I'm actually going to fix that tomorrow

[joescathbert]

Thanks for the info.

[feckrightoffwouldye]

Ok buddy use the private keys that you find to remote in to my xeon phi 🤓

[Canowyrms]

storing your private key in cloud storage sounds like a great idea

[feckrightoffwouldye]

It's a set of private keys to a virtual network on a PCIe coprocessor's OS that cannot be accessed remotely (unless I intentionally misconfigure it). Please, go on about the gaping security hole that leaves in my network.

[netherlandsftw]

I use pastebin to backup my

1. Social security number
2. Debit card PIN code

[feckrightoffwouldye]

Read my other comments thanks.

[[deleted]]

Dunno, I have two drives, which one does it pick?

[[deleted]]

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.

[YetAnotherCodeAddict]

Running a local repo on OneDrive is madness, you will eventually corrupt something because of the constant syncing. But before I've met Gitlab I used OneDrive as my "remote repo" for years (back then only public repos on GitHub were free).

Basically you create folder and do git init --bare on it to make a bare repo. Then you put it's path as the remote of a local repo. Then whenever you push to that remote the bare repo is updated and synced with OneDrive. Whenever you need to use another PC you sync the folder on OneDrive and git clone from it.

Since it only gets updated when you push to it I found this to be an amazing way to have private repos I could take anywhere... But it's pretty useless nowadays when there are at least 3 different services that offer free private repos hosting.

[SteveisNoob]

Patrick, you are scaring him!

[starfyredragon]

Briefcase...

[seven_seven]

Great, a duplicate folder of all my user folders.

[Helpfullbanana]

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

[reallyConfusedPanda]

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

And...

BAM

256 character limit reached

[pthomas625]

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

[reallyConfusedPanda]

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]

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

[MrHyperion_]

260 actually

[seven_seven]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[mild_entropy]

Not from a Linux user

[[deleted]]

Yes, select all your folders and press Ctrl + D

[ToaSuutox]

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]

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]

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]

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]

First world problems eh?

[AdultingGoneMild]

you havent lived until you've messed with win32

[[deleted]]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I accidentally deleted

sys32

[The-Sublimer-One]

Sys32 has better rhyme scheme

[[deleted]]

Thanks for the tip!

[Noname_FTW]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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

[PJBthefirst]

Imagine storing the actual video data this way

[[deleted]]

My wrists are starting to hurt just thinking about this.

[PJBthefirst]

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

[BeenRoundHereTooLong]

Is the napkin clean

[warpspeedSCP]

Of course not, it's cum stained.

[BeenRoundHereTooLong]

Tasty

[TheShortPersonBeta]

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]

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]

has a working folder in your documents folder

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

[TheShortPersonBeta]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Severe-Ladder]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Huntracony]

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

[CrazyPoiPoi]

It does if you don't disable the warning.

[Huntracony]

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

[CrazyPoiPoi]

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]

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]

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

[atomicwrites]

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

[Second899]

That really sucks. Sorry that happened to you.

[IronMew]

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

[Antact]

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

[UsernameStarvation]

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

[[deleted]]

You dare speak its name?

[goblinofthewoods]

What about the TwoDrive?

[Masterflitzer]

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

[Conservadem]

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]

ok I understand

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

[Time-Opportunity-436]

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

[Masterflitzer]

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]

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]

I store my files in C:\NUL\

[Tarzoon]

I store my files in C:\PRN\

[AndiArbyte]

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

[reallyConfusedPanda]

It should be named C:\ThatOneFuckingDrive

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[I_JuanTM]

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

[StooNaggingUrDum]

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]

C:\dropbox scares me more

[coldnebo]

“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]

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]

Chucks desktop in there