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I have a support ticket open on issues with OneDrive. Doing my part to make sure the issues I hit are being worked there too. They also directed me to give my feedback here.
That being said: I sync close to 40 sharepoint sites to my local machine. I regularly use CLI and other tools to examine and process data spread across those sites. I have used these for backup (Mac Time machine saved me more than once where a Teams site had data deleted by someone else and we did not notice for six months). I have teams sites where I only sync a portion of the site.
The recent changes have done the following:
- Orphaned old sync'd directories.
- This broke scripts and tools looking for another path
- The new file locations did not preserve what FoD settings I had selectively turned on
- This broke Citrix functionality since the citrix client cannot see ~/Library via their client.
- I wasn't even offered the option to migrate current syncs
- There doesn't appear to be any cli to manage what is or isn't sync so at least if we wanted to maintain our config we could. e.g. I have twice been asked to delete the OneDrive client(losing all 40 teams sites and sync settings), only to have to re-create them again. There is no script I can run to re-restore syncs.
- Since the upgrade(and I am running the latest according to tech support), anytime I use Excel, Powerpoint or Word, the OneDrive CPU process goes bonkers using 300% CPU. It got so bad I wrote software just to graph it misbehaving so I could show that data on my tech support tickets. I have observed it drive my Mac load average over 50 before too.
I am running on a fully updated 2019 Macbook Pro w/ 32GB of RAM.
That being said: I sync close to 40 sharepoint sites to my local machine. I regularly use CLI and other tools to examine and process data spread across those sites. I have used these for backup (Mac Time machine saved me more than once where a Teams site had data deleted by someone else and we did not notice for six months). I have teams sites where I only sync a portion of the site.
The recent changes have done the following:
- Orphaned old sync'd directories.
- This broke scripts and tools looking for another path
- The new file locations did not preserve what FoD settings I had selectively turned on
- This broke Citrix functionality since the citrix client cannot see ~/Library via their client.
- I wasn't even offered the option to migrate current syncs
- There doesn't appear to be any cli to manage what is or isn't sync so at least if we wanted to maintain our config we could. e.g. I have twice been asked to delete the OneDrive client(losing all 40 teams sites and sync settings), only to have to re-create them again. There is no script I can run to re-restore syncs.
- Since the upgrade(and I am running the latest according to tech support), anytime I use Excel, Powerpoint or Word, the OneDrive CPU process goes bonkers using 300% CPU. It got so bad I wrote software just to graph it misbehaving so I could show that data on my tech support tickets. I have observed it drive my Mac load average over 50 before too.
I am running on a fully updated 2019 Macbook Pro w/ 32GB of RAM.
- This is now getting ridiculous. WE USE THE FINDER TO MANIPULATE FILES. You assume now that we don't. What we do in the finder is assumed to be the master.
For anyone at Microsoft, try this:
Create a file, X.
Create a file, Y.
Delete X.
Change name of file Y to X.
This Fails (!!!) and says it can't edit file created by another user.
What you are left with is the original file X and NO file Y! It has gone, disappeared!
This by the way is a common case for me. File X is created by a script. I change it's name (usually to add 'EDITED' in the name).
What is going on, this doesn't even work for the basics?
