Hmmm. Sounds like a possibly messed up SharePoint setup - Staff regularly uploaded dozens of files at a time without trouble. I did however have to move about 1,200 documents from one library to another and found that if I chose more than 80 to move at once it all went horribly wrong...
Also, we made it company policy to end using email attachments (which is what everyone did until then) and changed them to sharing links from SP, both internally where required and for external contractors and 95% of the time it was no trouble at all. It’s my only experience of SP, yours sounds rather different. 😞 Anyway - that’s quite enough non Apple stuff from me! 😝 Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 15 Jan 2021, at 13:19, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>>> ---------------------------------- >>>> 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. I believe that MS is working on >>>> new universal version of the app for macOS >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tony Crooks >>>> [email protected] >>>> +44 7428 706227 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAHkKbUB-1MevUESHMj-43%3DM%3Dg3eZpfkfwjsrN1pOMcodnmUzAQ%40mail.gmail.com. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >> >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/bf0bcbb5-c911-401a-a4bb-4a6ee9faea8dn%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/9feb756e-b404-4cdc-b2e5-6d94f8d2365an%40googlegroups.com. > Cheers, > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/439E877E-980F-4F34-8462-FF6B0DBDE0DB%40me.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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