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johnstef
Jan 13, 2023Copper Contributor
Please make this "service" an actual service thanks.
Just fix that alpha stage service you call one drive, make it so that it can tell which computer connects to it so it doesnt mix and match all files from all my different computers and devices into 1 single folder.. This creates a chaotic mess and also enabling syncing becomes a nightmare because I start see stuff on my daughters computer that belong to me and my wife for example and so on and so forth.
Make it so that I can actually choose manually which files and folders instead of the 3 simplistic selections you have (pictures, documents,destop)
Maybe I dont want a folder of C:/users/me/pictures to be synced for example there is no way to select any tree like structure !!! just click or unclick those 2 vague options!! (which all btw get mixed into the same mess called "My files" on the onedrive apge... NO make it PC12321/User/whatever folder where there on the physical disk and do the same structure for PC222332 and tablet21312 etc (so that the stuff of each device is saved on the same path/directory as in the device itself!)
and THEN have also a "my files" icon to aggregate particular file types if you want to give the user a quick view of his stuff e.g showing only pictures or only pdfs etc... but only as a feature to display data in a different way once one logins to onedrive's page dont ignore the devices that sourced those files and mess with the paths because then it messes also things when syncing stuff among devices!!!!!
I want to back up instead of having to manually drag and drop them on the web interface (and pray it wont crash like it usually does when there are thousands of files involved e.g when you copy an entire user folder)
also make it so that when it crashes I just can drag the same selection again only this time have it to upload the missing files instead of creating duplicates!!! As when I paste a folder with the same folder on windows it will ask me if I want to keep or update or delete the dublicate file.
Or at least have it to remember the upload task so that if it crashes or wifi fails or power gets out or I simply close the tab by mistake I wont have to delete the half way done "job" and upload the entire job again in order to avoid having a ton of duplicates..
e.g I want to upload an entire c:/user/ folder which has thusands of smaller files with game saves program configurations pictures documents etc that total to 18GB and it crashed midway now I only uploaded about 6GB of those files and there is NO WAY (other for me to check 1 by 1 for a few thousand files which have been uploaded and which not and then upload the remaining manually) for me to upload the job completely without getting a ton of duplicates other than deleting what's already there and reuploading the entire thing... and with 30Mbps upload speed this is NERVE BRAKING.
And no I dont want just to enable syncing 1st because I am dualboot and loged into ubuntu now (so I cant use the app or the onedrive folder <which I hate to use anyway I'll explain later> ) and also as I said the sync is ridicoulous cause it uploades everything to 1 place... this is the user folder (lets call it johnstef3) of my windows laptop I dont want its contents to be mixed in Onedrive's "my files" with my desktop (which also may daughter may use from time to time) or my tablet or my other laptop etc!
As for the Onedrive folder of eve very windows installation (which I got to great lengths to delete from regedit etc exactly because it messes up syncing everything to to everywhere being agnostic about which files belong to which device or which folder on the physical machine and just dumping them all in a specific few locations!!)
leave my physical files ALONE or at least give me the option to set that stupid sync "feature" in which you just remove my physical files (Despite e.g saving a jpeg I edited from photoshop to a physical location on my drive e.g C:/user/me/pictures ) and save what essentially is a shortcut to the cloud at C:/user/me/onedrive/pictures this creates a mess and complicates workflows if you actually do work on a computer with the physical data it stores and not just save pictures of your summer vocation that were on your phone because given the simplicity of this service this is the user you target it seems.
Thank you.
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