you've now reminded me of a time when a colleague had a shared folder on
OneDrive and it decided to delete it one day. Both swore they had
literally not opened the folder around the time it happened. Luckily,
one of them had listened to one of my regular lectures about backing up
and Time Machine had made a copy.
Though my work is now very Teams- and Sharepoint- based, I have got over
my rage at having to drop things into a browser one at a time (folders?
ha!) because otherwise something goes wrong. It's a total disgrace imo -
I had better than this via ftp sync in about 1997 over dial-up. tbh my
advice is don't spend time trying to make it work, just bite the bullet
that everything has to be done by hand. It IS that bad. I have also
spent time with one of those people who enthuse about Sharepoint and am
firmly of the opinion as a result that it works when it's your complete
lifestyle and *you're the one in charge of it all*. It's like talking to
a librarian who says their system of putting books on shelves by height
and colour makes it much easier to put them back (not that any real
librarian would do that).
In other words, give up (sorry). It's all a horrible badly-designed
system full of patches and workarounds.
(My latest headache is that people share a file, not by attachment, but
via some crappy Sharepoint link. I seem to do nothing except close
useless intermediate webpages for Teams meetings and Sharepoint files.)
It's deliberate empire-building by MS, and when they create a new
unified browser-based system we will look back on what wehave now
nostalgically.
(I'm not as angry as I sound, I promise! But I've been trying to make it
work for years, and it's less stress to keep it very simple).
Cheers,
J
On 15 Jan 2021, at 8:11, mac98aop wrote:
Thanks for this.
I'm interested by what you say, Stephen and Jason, as I'm wondering if
our
setup is wrong or complicated.
We have it that each team member has their own OneDrive and we all
then
access the team SharePoint. That confused us at first, as we were used
to
GDrive where we all accessed one GDrive but with restrictions on who
accessed which folders etc.
Now, we each have all our own files on our own separate OneDrives. But
for
those folders and files that require shared access, they're stored and
accessed separately on the organisations SharePoint. It's a pain and
quite
unintuitive. Is there a better way?!
Regardless, sounds like SP sync needs turning off. That's a shame, as
it's
less about offline access but daily workflow, eg. saving an attachment
from
Mail to a SharePoint folder should be easy enough. Now, it seems best
to
save to desktop and drag and drop to SharPoint online via browser.
Any tips?!
On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 00:04:48 UTC Stephen McW wrote:
I was one of the SharePoint bods at my last job and we would steer
people
from SharePoint sync if we could - it’s only needed if you must
have
offline access to your documents and it caused no end of issues
shortly
after I joined in 2018. I believe MS improved it quite dramatically
about 6
months later but it wasn’t something we ever used much. This was
all done
on Windows and whilst I used SharePoint and OneDrive at home on my
MacBook
it was done on Catalina.
OneDrive is stored in SharePoint as you will see if you look at its
URL
which I think begins my.sharepoint
I found the OneDrive app to be reliable and straightforward on
Catalina,
but I’ve never tried on Big Sur. It has a web interface via MS 365
which
works pretty well most of the time.
Stephen
You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung
On 14 Jan 2021, at 14:53, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, both. Very helpful. I'll try the folder by folder sync and
see
how we go. One of the problems seems to be that we also use
SharePoint
sync, and OneDrive syncs both through the same app. Fine in
principle, but
I dare to suggest it just gets confused as to what's my OneDrive,
what's
SharePoint, and loses all directory mapping for no reason.
Will see if the trillion dollar MS can fix these niggles ;)
On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 09:44:29 UTC [email protected] wrote:
I’ve found exactly what’s described on Mojave FWIW. I wouldn’t
expect a
fix any time soon! But I found it was particular folders being
synced that
set this off. When I removed it, it seemed to behave. If it’s
critical, try
removing all sync folders and only adding them back one at a time.
Thanks,
-Jason
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On 14 Jan 2021 at 09:33:31 GMT, Tony Crooks <[email protected]>
wrote:
I’ve read this is a known problem on Big Sur - something of
concern for
businesses that operate a BYOD policy. You’d need to check a
Windows
forum
that has OneDrive threads for workarounds. I believe that MS is
working
on
new universal version of the app for macOS
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