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OK, what amazes me is that you don't realize OneDrive is a business-critical tool - it is not acceptable for there to be breaking changes in functionality in this way.
I have a Macbook pro with three syncing accounts - a personal OD, a Business 365, and a sync from a folder on business sharepoint to my machine. The first two are messed up as others have said. The third is just plain not working, there are no files in the local directory and I cannot get it to re-sync from sharepoint online. So this is useless.
Also VSCode doesn't play nice with the new setup - git is showing EVERYTHING as having been modified - that's thousands of files for me.
What you have to understand is that my workflow is a MBP and I NEED to have everything local so that when I am on a plane or train I can continue to work.
I am having to move everything for me and my colleagues onto Dropbox, which is a major pain.
How was this allowed to happen?
I have a Macbook pro with three syncing accounts - a personal OD, a Business 365, and a sync from a folder on business sharepoint to my machine. The first two are messed up as others have said. The third is just plain not working, there are no files in the local directory and I cannot get it to re-sync from sharepoint online. So this is useless.
Also VSCode doesn't play nice with the new setup - git is showing EVERYTHING as having been modified - that's thousands of files for me.
What you have to understand is that my workflow is a MBP and I NEED to have everything local so that when I am on a plane or train I can continue to work.
I am having to move everything for me and my colleagues onto Dropbox, which is a major pain.
How was this allowed to happen?
- Jack_Nichols
Microsoft
Hi dataveg,
> Also VSCode doesn't play nice with the new setup - git is
> showing EVERYTHING as having been modified - that's thousands
> of files for me.
In general, source control systems inside of your OneDrive have never been well-supported on any platform, as systems like git do a lot of things to files locally that can conflict with sync. Plus, it's a little redundant - usually you'll have a remote where you can push and pull, and that maintains history, and so forth. Is there a reason you have a git repo in your OneDrive? I know some customers do this, but I'm curious if there's anything about your setup that I can learn that might help inform how we handle this in the future.
Jack- I understand what you are saying about it being duplicative, but it shows you aren't understanding the use cases we have. All of my working files whether code or docs or whatever - are supposed to be in the company's OneDrive/MS365 folders. We are discouraged to have ANYTHING outside of that - and for good reason. So yes, that includes all of my code. This is a common use case, especially with small companies like ours.
In order to fix the sharepoint sync issue I had to stop syncing in the OneDrive App, delete the (empty) folder and then go online to sharepoint and start syncing again. And now I have to go a do the same for every one of my colleagues.
Again, this is a business critical app. This should not have happened. It took me a good two hours to just find reference to this change (after rebooting my machine, which is when everything changed). I thought I had malware at first and was desperately running scans.- I take it back - the sharepoint files ARE NOT SYNCING. I have lost access to my main company files.
Wow. Just wow.
- Hello sir, we have listed some reasons below that may be the reason for your troubles.
Sir may I understand your computer company and the software you are currently using.
Network and connection issues
Hardware and pc issues
Software may not support your device- Hahaha this is priceless!
