Golly, thanks for such detailed and helpful replies. A really useful thread. If nothing else, I'm reassured I'm not going mad, and it makes sense why non Office files were constantly misbehaving (I don't expect Office to open my Mindnode app, but yes, to play more nice with PDFs!)
I'll file this. I'm basically chief cook and bottle washer here (I'm a pastor) and so everybody else is a volunteer. When lockdown lifts, we'll all sit round a table and plan what we need, and then where to store. Sounds like Users and Groups are the way ahead. Interestingly, (foolishly?!) we migrated to OneDrive/SharePoint on recommendation of good techie friend, who is effectively our librarian - ie, he's a team of one running freelance web design so little wonder it works nicely for him - he only has to share it with himself! Anyway, all told I quite like the UI and concepts and feel happier here than with GDrive, never liked DropBox and won't inflict iCloud on my non-Apple enthusiastic compadres! Thanks again and have a super weekend, Adam On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 13:43:52 UTC Stephen McW wrote: > Our principle was, everything was stored in SharePoint and only the > documents that the company wouldn’t mind losing if you were run over were > kept in OneDrive as it’s personal to you and pretty much inaccessible to > anyone else unless you share stuff from it. This worked well for us. > > However, to make SP work comfortably and well, you pretty much only want > to be storing MS Office documents in it - just right click to open online > or in the full app. It doesn’t play well with anything else - it won’t even > open PDFs in any native app! > > I can’t remember how it worked on my Mac but in Office apps on Windows you > could save directly to SharePoint, but otherwise, yes, best to drag to > desktop then drop into SP. > > The thing to remember about SP is that it’s all in a browser. Keep tabs > open in your browser for each library you wish to access/upload to and even > another for your OneDrive if there’s any advantage to be had. DO NOT drag > docs from the browser version of OneDrive into SP though as you will just > create a link high will be of not use to most SP users. > > Other SP tips, if you have the control - use views and groups and don’t > use folders. SP plays curiously with them and we used Views and groups for > over 200,000 documents. > > Our office found SP worked very well and I liked it personally... if you > are using MS office documents 😉 > > Stephen > > You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > > On 15 Jan 2021, at 08:11, mac98aop <[email protected]> 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 >>> ---------------------------------- >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> ---------------------------------- >>> >>> 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. 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