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Updated Feb 24, 2022
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This is certainly a new experience, but not in a good way. The old OneDrive was very effective and worked behind the scenes smoothly. I think that trying to sell it as a new experience is incorrect and a poor marketing decision by Microsoft - perhaps making the best of a bad job due to the need to change the underlying tech platform. Microsoft could have been honest with us. My OneDrive updated to the new "experience" while I was on the phone to my sister extolling the virtues of OneDrive. I put the phone down to find all my files had disappeared! I thought I'd been hacked and eventually found this blog. Unbelievable that there should be a techy blog introducing such a major change in "experience".
I have yet to see any improvement. I was able to reconnect and "pin" all my SharePoint and OneDrive folders, so I am back to where I was so that all files are downloaded. But:
- the storage system is a mess - some files are in the "right" place, but most are in some system folder. I am fortunate to have way more storage than I use, but if it was tighter it would be much more difficult to find out where the large folders are
- Spotlight can no longer index the folders, well maybe it will, but the ability to search has gone for the time being until, if, it sorts itself out. This is a major failing.
- The contradicting icons are ridiculous!
- Due I guess to the files being in some system cache, it is now slow to navigate the folders as the files have to be fetched -before it was instant
- The jury is out on the Time Machine, but there seems to be a gap now before I managed to get everything "pinned"
What really bugs me is the dishonesty - this is a bit like having a crash replacement (for "technical" reasons) of your diesel or petrol engined car with a poorly fitted electric engine that is slower and with less range, and trying to claim it as a "new experience". If Microsoft were up against it with the tech under the hood, then so be it, we who use Mac tech are always at risk of problems with Microsoft tech. But they should have been more honest, and said "hey guys, this is going to be tough and you'll need to prepare to do things differently". But they chose not to, or at least not in ways that we could all understand and plan for.
Not good!
I am lucky in that I only use the on-board st