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Updated Dec 07, 2020
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Microsoft continues its renewed love affair with folders, eschewing metadata as a way to organize content. The first stage of this renewal came when folders were used to organize Team channel conversations -- something that should have been done using metadata instead (indeed, I get around this by setting default metadata values on channel folders and then hiding folders--would that i didn't have to employ a workaround). While I love the concept of Add to OneDrive, why is the feature restricted to libraries and folders, and not files? Hopefully the latter is on the MS Roadmap. Or maybe in my government tenant I'm not seeing the latest and greatest. The latest/greatest would be an ability to Add to OneDrive either a single file or a set of them corresponding to specific metadata values. Oh, but I long for the days when folders were seen as the obfuscating organizer they are, and metadata was the heroine deserving of our love. #DieFoldersDie