If only there was an alternative 🤔

From the moment I heard about The Cloud, I thought it was a stupid idea. Why would you put your important data in the hands of a third party? They'll steal it, lose it, manipulate it, overcharge for it, go out of business, change the rules, etc.

No, I'll just buy another hard drive.

I fucking HATE OneDrive with a passion.

My shop switched from using a local drive for storage to using SharePoint/OneDrive and its awful. Waiting 10 minutes for an updated production file to sync versus having it instantly available is going to cause a world of problems on rush orders.

OneDrive to rule them all

OneDrive to pester them.

OneDrive to upload them all

And in the cloud store them.

The Dark Side never gives up.

you can uninstall it

The most insidious part of OneDrive and Google's equivalent (Photos, etc.) on Android is that they both treat the cloud copy as the "original" and the local copy as temporary. That is, in normal usage, if you delete the local copy it remains in the cloud, but if you delete the cloud copy it also deletes the local copy automatically. Under both systems, if you want to delete something from the cloud but keep the local copy, you have to go through a separate, clunky web interface.

Don't do it! It's a set-up!

Honestly onedrive has to be the most bloated, ram hungry software ever programmed.

Another reason life with Linux is so much more peaceful

Laughs in Linux.

If you're editing a VBA macro in an Excel workbook stored in OneDrive, it temporarily stops syncing the workbook file and can cause sync conflicts where you lose all your changes. This has been an issue for years.

Nobody in their right mind wants to work with VBA. Spending all day hammering out a macro or function only to have it magically poofed out of existence is just cruel.

So now I store Excel workbooks (where VBA is involved) on my work pc and have a PowerShell script that copies them to OneDrive on a schedule as a backup.

I'm still amazed that corporations everywhere subscribe to this ridiculous circus.

I use 3-2-1 backup strategy.

In the past I used google drive as a cloud backup. Periodic checks showed that the files stored on google did not have matching hashes. The files were changed somehow. Furthermore, the hashes changed from one month to the next.

I redownloaded the files and they were corrupted. Pictures had the wrong colors, videos had sections missing.

I kept the files on the drive and retested monthly. (I had paid for the year) They degraded every month.

I don't know how or why but google drive is not worth it, even at a free level. They will corrupt your data.

I have not tried onedrive because, in my mind, microsoft is even lower than google on quality.

My point is... Linux with multiple offsite backups. Buddy backups recommend over trusting any corp.