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Norman Di Pasquale
Iron Contributor
Oct 01, 2016

My experience with the new OneDrive Team Site Sync

Microsoft announced at Ignite that the new preview OneDrive client would sync full Team Sites, link here: https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/sharepoint-online-sync-preview-headlines-ignite-announcem...
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Alan_McFarlane
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Oct 07, 2016
I've tried it in one new user. They had .jar files. They wouldn't sync. The new Activity window was going kinda psychadelic. Not pleasant. Flashing between a red warning about that and the normal blue progress reporting of the other (100s) of files upload progress. (BTW I was accessing the PC remotely.)

I'm gonna try giving the user customize permissions on the SP site to see if that allows the .jar files to sync.
Paul Cunningham's avatar
Paul Cunningham
Iron Contributor
Oct 07, 2016

Why are they storing jar files in ODFB? Seems odd to me, but I assume there's a rational explanation.

  • Alan_McFarlane's avatar
    Alan_McFarlane
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 10, 2016

    So, the user has a business app written in Java where the suggested backup solution is just to copy the whole folder. So they thought, just plonk it in my team's site...

     

    Adding the customize perm has let the .jar files sync. The consequences of that to the SharePoint site I don't know...

    • Paul Cunningham's avatar
      Paul Cunningham
      Iron Contributor
      Oct 11, 2016
      Alan_McFarlane wrote:

      So, the user has a business app written in Java where the suggested backup solution is just to copy the whole folder. So they thought, just plonk it in my team's site...

       

      Adding the customize perm has let the .jar files sync. The consequences of that to the SharePoint site I don't know...

      Yeah that sounds less than ideal :-)

       

      I've had some issues with the preview client this week. Work I did on my main computer hasn't synced to the library apparently. I think the client is stuck in "processing" status, but now I'm in another country so it's a little difficult to troubleshoot :-/

      • Paul Mitchell's avatar
        Paul Mitchell
        Brass Contributor
        Oct 12, 2016

        I know the blog mentions SharePoint Online document libraries so I assume this would include Group document libraries? I followed the instructions to install the preview client BUT did not see the note to open the new client at least once, so I think I am still using the old client to sync my SharePoint library, which is working well. Since following the instructions however, my original NGSC has gone into meltdown and is permanently ‘processing changes’ and not doing anything else.

        I am a bit stuck now

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