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Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why
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I haven't died yet, if we are sharing random arbitrary personal experiences. I expect to in the future.
Well considering that I've been in the IT industry for over 20 years at this point. And as long as you have things set up properly and you know how things work then this really isn't an issue. It's not just my personal experience is also the experience of any of my clients it's experience of any of the places that I've ever worked at it's the experience of any of the thousands of people that I've interacted with and probably tens of thousands of people have interacted with over the past 20 years.
Been doing IT for nearly 30 years here.
Computers shit their pants whenever they feel like it.
I have been doing IT since 1867 and I’ve never run into an issue.
Bullshit, all punch cards eventually tear
I was hoping you’d play along :’(
I was!
Damned autism
I’ve been in the IT business for 26 years and I’ve seen software screw up, even when configured correct. OneDrive have lost many files for people to the point that Microsoft more or less apologised for it in 2015.
OneDrive is shit though.
Oh I fully agree out of all of these options one drive is definitely the worst of them. And I've seen many many files lost through one drive because it's really difficult to configure it correctly and most the time it's fucked up because Microsoft continually changes what you can and can't do with it and how it updates and how it doesn't update and now with the latest change and the forcing of users to utilize it it's becoming even worse.
Maybe, I just don't like "And as long as you have things set up properly and you know how things work then this really isn’t an issue" - you can set things up correctly and then it still screws up. Everything works perfectly until it doesn't.
I hold the middle ground. When set up properly, the services do tend to work just fine when left alone. Consumers often have automatic updates enabled, that is where shit hits the fan sometimes. I have had the issue of files disappearing. Fortunately, they reappeared some time after. Not sure what Microsoft was doing -- we will never know.
You don't have backups for your files on Google drive?
Of course I do. But it's also my backup for files. You always have at least 2 if not 3.
Okay, because you're responding to a person saying they've lost files, on an article thread about people losing files. You seem to have all the tools to understand what's being discussed and yet you're still being obtuse about it.
No I'm calling their bullshit.
"All these people saying they know people who've died in car accidents are talking bullshit. I drive every day, and I've not died."
Dickhead.
Oh you really got me good!
People refuse to accept the concept that sometimes people say things that are untrue, and if enough people make the same claim it becomes 'True' even if its 'False'
I'm with you, Thousands of GB's of Files across literally hundreds of machines both personally and for machines I'm responsible for. Literally never seen it doing whats being claimed here.
I'm not saying its not possible, I just believe that people are more stupid than truthful. Remember almost everyone who loses access to their Social media will say their 'It was hacked' when actually what they mean is "I'm a fucking moron and I gave my credentials away"