OneDrive

“heavily vested in SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, etc. specifically for their enterprise controls”

“The other issue is that I'm renting currently and if I'm changing countries I'll have to rely on the onedrive again”

“constant issues with the background processes it insists it must have running at all times”

“rip most of that stuff out (like the McAfee scanner in security, Bixby, Gemini, OneDrive, etc.)”

“The problem is also how much MS pushes Onedrive. In Outlook for example its very easy to accidentally upload your attachment to onedrive”

“moving to a new computer is absolutely painless now with a Microsoft Account because of OneDrive and Winget”

“You also get version history of files and the recycle bin of files deleted from the cloud”

“someone forcing using the software improperly isn't really a failure of the software”

“They will auto sync the users folder with one drive, but there is some weird alternative they have to set”

“onedrive seems to be particularly bad in terms of reverting local changes, not syncing changes, and generally messing things up”

“I keep my code in OneDrive. I probably have hundreds of repos cloned and active.”

“Network storage does not handle the online/offline switching as transparently as OneDrive (or other cloud storage).”

“OneDrive, for all its many shortcomings, is well and truly into good-enough territory to cover the 80% case.”

“They locked me out without any explanation and without any notificaiton, ended my subscription and I lost valuable photos forever.”

“nowadays it's reliable. We use it at work and I don't feel any pressure to move to Dropbox. It's also much cheaper.”

“OneDrive on some Samsung phones recently started uploading user photos on their own, despite user never granting apps the permission to do so”

“Google Drive/iCloud/OneDrive/etc. are already used by non-technical users and would work fine.”

“OneDrive silently corrupted hundreds of my files, replacing their content with binary zeros while retaining the original file size.”

“onedrive folders were indeed problematic, causing cyclic updates on access and random metadata changes for no explicit reason”

“Lots of people are not tech savvy. It's entirely believable that someone who doesn't understand why their stuff is in OneDrive”

“I rather like having this stuff in OneDrive. I do not like that it is pushed so aggressively.”

“It seems like every time it updates I get the “let’s finish setting up your computer” screen that asks me to setup one drive.”

“Nextcloud/OCIS/Owncloud for Sharepoint (god I fucking hate Sharepoint) and Onedrive”

“OneDrive has been one of the better cloud storage options for consumers.”

“if more than one person opens an Office document that is stored in OneDrive we can see each other inside the document”

“all of these systems have version history and document recovery built in”

“no major issues here. sure its got the occasional bug, and is missing some features i think it should have... but all in all its very usable.”

“The "Files-On-Demand" feature of OneDrive makes it possible for everyone in the family to login into any computer with OneDrive and quickly access all their files”

“Microsoft aggressively attempting to convince you to use OneDrive, no matter how many times you turn it off.”

“While the migration is occurring, the operating system is optimistically re-mapping them all to a cloud URL and/or deleting them entirely.”

“I haven't had too many issues with it that I couldn't resolve myself, but I understood what it was”

“The problem comes when people who don't want to use it are tricked,.manipulated, fooled and dark patterned into using it against their understanding.”

“I use OneDrive for easy replication of lots of stuff between my own devices”

“What was not fine was moving files there without user informed consent.”

“it's a dark pattern. Basically update after update has pushed "protect your computer back up now" and the default option turns on one drive”

“a decently effective solution from Microsoft to maintain the availability of OneDrive sync”

“it works, is reliable, and requires no technical knowledge of running your own service”

“I've had some irritations with it, but overall having versioning has been a much bigger benefit than the hassle.”

“compromised accounts being used to send phishing content via sharepoint/onedrive is extremely common”

“You can use OneDrive to backup if you have not already purchased a subscription.”