OneDrive
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“It's honestly been great for my org.”
“They all work perfectly for their intended uses.”
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“I love OneDrive. I don't know why everyone hates it.”
Caveats and dissent
“All of which have decidedly different UIs for the same incredibly simple task”
“Yesterday OneDrive just randomly would not sync a specific file.”
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“When I wanted to download a folder with a lot of files in it, it would regularly crap out.”
“They locked me out without any explanation and without any notificaiton, ended my subscription and I lost valuable photos forever.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files 4 mentions
- OneDrive data now has an expiry date 3 mentions
- OneDrive just deleted all of my files 2 mentions
- Microsoft Teams is a red flag 1 mention
- "Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team " 1 mention
- Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App 1 mention
Data: onedrive.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 19
“For large files only, or files that are shared in chat”
“configuring OneDrive as the sync DB”
“All of which have decidedly different UIs for the same incredibly simple task”
“I moved to the Mac App Store version of OneDrive specifically because of the constant issues with the background processes”
“Yesterday OneDrive just randomly would not sync a specific file.”
“When I wanted to download a folder with a lot of files in it, it would regularly crap out.”
“It's honestly been great for my org.”
I’ve seen a lot of people have issues with git, because this is going on in the background and they don’t realize it. They’ll change branches, then OneDrive sees files are missing, so it starts pulling them back down. It makes a mess. Any new hire we get, we need to make sure to explicitly tell them not to keep their code in a folder managed by OneDrive, but they never listen. They speak up about a month later, compl
“They locked me out without any explanation and without any notificaiton, ended my subscription and I lost valuable photos forever.”
“For everything else I use paid onedrive subscription.”
“like Edge, OneDrive, Copilot, etc.”
“I use OneDrive extensively but there is no official client for Linux”
“They all work perfectly for their intended uses.”
“Turns out even if you don't have the OneDrive service running on your PC, Office will store files in OneDrive directly through the API”
“I love OneDrive. I don't know why everyone hates it.”
“I use OneDrive at work for all of my documents and have never encountered the horror stories I frequently read.”
“completely get rid of OneDrive and other annoying Microsoft tools”
“One drive royally screwed me over years ago and I lost many files.”
“I do heavily use OneDrive space though.”