It doesn’t work with my documents manager on my iPad well at all. I keep getting booted off, and logging back in frequently fails. I also have a SharePoint account through the university I work at. If I were rating that alone, I would give it 5 stars. Every once in awhile (actually quite rarely) I have to log back in, but that has always been problem free as well. My personal account works almost flawlessly. I have experience with both the Personal One Drive as part of my 365 subscription and on a SharePoint work account. I just spend *so much* time managing and correcting the sync process compared to other programs. But it's what my work uses, and I am happy to have so much space to send work files. Then, when I renamed the folders, it went ahead and synced these new folders, so I had to trash them twice.įrequent sync errors are the norm here (beware any file that has symbols) and frankly it's really a lot more annoying than iCloud and Dropbox. Then, when I resumed with some folders set to remain on the server, it gave me errors about the unsynced folders having the same name as the ones on the server. Initially, if you have folders already set up at the server (say if you're working with an org), it will not ask you for preferences first and simply download everything - after which it froze on me. I frequently get messages telling me that the app can't find my local folder, usually after updates. You are able to sync, to keep some folders unsynced, and that's good. If you're a MS shop, you get a lot of storage, it seems. The second star is for the massive amount of storage I get from my organization's 365 subscription. I reported this to Support the first time. It’s currently useless to me, and my only recourse now is to migrate content to another cloud service. In short, I’m unable to use OneDrive on my home Windows. I’ve been going through the same process-and it’s not working. That may have been a fluke because a few months later, I encountered the same problem with a new update. The first time that this happened, I managed to work around it by force-quitting OneDrive, uninstalling it, wiping the existing local OneDrive folder on my home computer, and then reinstalling OneDrive as though setting it up on a new computer. Make sure that the location isn't on a removable drive, or on a disk that has a case-sensitive format”). It wouldn’t sync my existing folders, and instead gave me a repeated error message (“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected: Try a different location. Basically, it couldn’t detect that I already had OneDrive installed and was trying to create a OneDrive folder again. Recently, after updating the OneDrive app at home, the update prompted me to sign into my organization again, but it couldn’t “locate” a place to sync my files. OneDrive had been working well for me for 6 months in syncing work files between my work computer and my home computer. I am disappointed and frustrated by the last two updates. It's really the simple things that matter with user experience and I know M$ doesn't make any money licensing OneDrive so it will undoutably remain pitifully featuerd behind its peers. Add to the list is the "processing" message that doesn't go away after you open the app along with no "pause" button. However, in the corporate setting where we are basically forced to use SharePoint this tool does nothing more than get a local copy on your computer without any other interaction which is pitiful. I'm sure if you don't use SharePoint in a corporate environment and use OneDrive to sync your local Micro$soft application documents it's a beautiful thing. It is simply a basic file sync tool for the fledgeling SharePoint experience. OneDrive has no concept of a file repository with a local synced copy. As an example a simple right-click and you have a link to email off to someone as a one-time access or direct link if it is shared. The user experience of other applications like DropBox is very good and well integrated with the OS. With all the rave reviews on this application I'm really curious what horrible software people live with that makes this look good. The first few iterations of OneDrive were barely passable as a sync tool for SharePoint. The user experience with this application is so 'blah' it's not even funny.
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