Technology

I discovered this week that on three separate dates around a year ago, a bunch of files in my team's SharePoint were deleted. this went undiscovered until now because working with those projects was put on hold last year, and only the files themselves were deleted (not the folder structure).

if the folders had been deleted too, I might have noticed and thought "hey didn't we have something here?" but since only the files inside the folders and subfolders were deleted, and those files were not being worked with, I did not notice

tysm microsoft

Does this not happen in Europe? Never known OneDrive to be so intrusive.

I would guess it trys to "backup" them to onedrive and deletes the local copy but there is some problem that causes it not to actually add it to the onedrive, so result is no file anywhere. And it does this with its own permission of course, without informing user about anything.

Wait, this is ... news?

Hasn't this been happening like, constantly, since they rolled out OneDrive?

Time to use TwoDrive

EDIT: Or "Time TwoDrive", if you prefer

Fortunately I have backups on proton drive and Dropbox

At this point I'm surprised there's still files, and not an AI trained on the files that you have to describe the contents to so it can maybe give you something resembling your file.

I've struggled to find an epithet for MS that would really sum up my anger in a single epic childish insult. Problem is, they already surpassed anything I could come up with.

They are tiny and flaccid, and no one should pay them any mind.

Ha, shows you right.

God, people, just get yourselves flash drives or an external drive. Cloud storage is dumb.

You could make either of those options last through your entire lifetime if you care for them properly. But I guess people enjoy the idea of going "huh?" whenever files mysteriously disappear from cloud storage.

So I had the weird issue that none of my shortcuts were showing the proper icon, instead showing the blank piece of paper placeholder(even in the taskbar). Was digging through some other settings for something and found a bunch of one drive settings left on. Turned them all off and suddenly my icons are back to normal. Not sure if it was trying to access the files in the cloud instead of locally and wasn't loading them properly or what. Either way, One Drive absolutely fucks a lot of random things up