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Superb detailed commentary on some of the core issues that I've encountered too. One more to add to this list which I think is important when working with OneDrive at scale is its handling of conflicts. A busy user will see the options and click whichever gets them working again quickly. This is likely within a matter of weeks or months to result in hundreds or thousands of copy files with "-WORKSTATIONNAME" appended to them. There is no way for admins to track this - to my knowledge - nor any way for users to review the duplicates/clashes without it paralysing the main OneDrive sync engine.
JakeFraserIME I am seeing this as well. We're on airplanes all the time and if the Internet drops even for a very short period of time, we now have a handful of files - one from each of us and we need to put them together ourselves.
Ron_LaPedis Tells us the big issue here: OneDrive isn’t designed to handle working on shared drives/files. In its current state it can only handle personal/single-user work, which is after all what OneDrive’s origins are. But it isn’t fit for proper collaborative work or using synced SharePoint sites.
- Agree. Additionally, after many data losses apparently due to network hiccups (file on server overwrites updated file on my laptop), I have started MOVING single-user work files to iCloud, editing them, then moving them back to OneDrive.