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Jack_Nichols
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi 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
> 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.
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. - Jack_Nichols
- Jack_Nichols
gacarini
Carter_MSFT
Well, I have spent the better part of today trying to get this back to a usable state, and I'm having to eat up the fact that many of my apps are now broken. However, the most problematic thing for me is that "Keep on this device" DOES NOT WORK for a folder that has been synced from documents in a MS365 sharepoint folder. In order to get them to physically download I have to 'visit' every.single.file.and.folder. Let's hope that they stay there! This is a joke.
I know that Apple changed the apis on you but there was plenty of notice and using this change as an excuse to FORCE online files is so short sighted. I'm guessing you guys are in Redmond? Do you ever fly? Do you ever take the Cascades train? Let me tell you there is NEVER internet on the Cascades train, just a few miles from you. Requiring online is idiotic. Again I ask - did no-one point this out? Who's genius idea was this?
I guess at this point I am just talking to myself. Tonight will be taken up with the fun of moving ALL of my company's files to Dropbox.
- ...also there are many files within the code folders that are .gitignored, that we don't want to have under code control, such as data files, charts, output and results. Those NEED to be in OneDrive.
- Hello sir,
We are massively relieved to hear that the problem has been sorted out.
