MicrosoftHi there Miceile,
Thank you for the post .
I have been using OneDrive for many years,
As a corporate business technician,
and now as a personal user -
Family organiser.
I have been reporting the problems with the browser access to the facility using all the pathways I could find, but still find that there are great difficulties with the interface.
with a slow upload speed I have found tat frequently uploads need overnight sessions.
And, then inthe morning, maybe several hours to deal with the problems
The failure details on the screen (right-hand panel) do not give much of the name of failed files.
The facility does not offer options to retry failed files unless they can be specifically identified and the command re entered.
If a filename is already in use the option is to discard the upload (may have taken 2 or more hours processing before the user of the name is checked.
other option - to add the upload as a new file - different end to the name, different upload/file date/time,
No option to overwrite the file with the same name & creation/last update date/time.
And the occasional report that a file was not uploaded as I do not have the authority to write it to the store ! ????
But the file may have been 1 of a folder-full of files on my PC and almost all the others were written -
and all in the same session.
even better -
If I can identify the file from the part of the filename given,
just selecting it and selection the upload process (drag-n-drop)
will usually get it uploaded -
and that is the same file, unaltered, from the same folder
using the same logon session to the same OneDrive folder ! ????????????
Then - go looking to see what has been uploaded so the missing ones can be reloaded
Have to carefully, and slowly page through the presented files -
page down too fast and not all the files on OneDrive are added to the presented list.
Now checking the files on the OneDrive against the list that should be there
have to select "RENAME" to get to see (be able to scroll through the right hand part of filenames longer than about 30 characters
so the parts of my partition backup are all presented with the part-number missing on the list, and usually the datetimestamp of the backup set too !
Then there was the debacle of the message telling me the old OneDrive App was being discontinued, and I needed the new one -
3 days of the old backup PC not responding to mouse or keyboard input as the names of the files I can access on the family's OneDrive storage are added to a folder in my /used/ area of the PC's OS partition MFT
And then many hours of the App linking the entry in the MFS to the file on the OneDrive -
Yes there is an option not to link - but you cannot get at that until all the file links have been setup !
So - I have a complete list of all the families files under my user-ID
I don't want that - it makes file explorer so slow with all the extra entries in the MFT
Good that as a "Tech", I thought it would be better to check what "linked" means -
seems that if I had deleted the entries in that folder under my ID, all the files would have been deleted from the OneDrive store.
My data files, my sets of backups of partition images,
the backup sets of images of the family's systems,
the data the family members had uploaded to get space on their systems to allow windows-update to function,
The files that makeup their working environment - and for some who had Sync'd the entire OS partition, the OS files too !
Then there is the I7 laptop I use for general work -
about 20 minutes of a totally unresponsive system, black screen,
where the only way I knew things were happening was the Hub lights flashing
After the long wait - the system started up and allowed me to login - and get an occasional response as it too went through the folder setup, MFT load, and linking.
Then, I could unlink that folder structure, and verify that deleting files from the MFT folder within the /User/ area did not get the files removed from the OneDrive store, and then from my PC partitions.
So - having had the family members remove the App from their PC's
panic not, just take evasive actions mode
they have virtually ceased using OneDrive.
I would ask that Microsoft deal with the problems I have reported about the Personal user version of OneDrive.
And add a storage space limitation (Quota) facility to the share option where the "owner" can give write permission to a user -
that is without finding the permitted folder is now occupying all the available space allowed to the owning ID.
As in 1TB - share folder /thekidsstuff/ with the kids - but only allow that folder to occupy say - 100GB of the 1TB space.
And, perhaps you can get the backup facilities - File History and system image facilities sorted out to be safe and reliable to use.
file history should use the longer names option so that files with windows "long names" of above 220 characters - and up to the 255 character limit will be saved.
Also allow backup check frequencies to be set by foldername -
Maybe check at a specified set of intervals 10 minutes, 20, 30, 60, 120, 240, 480 minutes, and daily/weekly. for files in the folders with datetimestamps showing file change within the interval
That being so that the files a user is frequently updating can be saved in line with their updating - and those infrequently updated (outlook archives?) only saved at daily intervals
- So that the system does not take 48 copies of a 5GB archive every day.
And re system image
Great - you have an image of the partition(s0
edit a file, and that replacers the copy in the image.
Then notice the file is missing a great amount of data, or has been replaced with a malware package distributor -
and that is the version in the image.
Ideally, an incremental set should be created with the user advised when the incremental sets reach a user set limit of storage used.
The advisory being - either "point the facility to another storage location for a new base set, or increase te space allowed for the system image and incremental sets.
with the facility acquiring, and reserving the indicated space.
Jamies666
