My wife
is terrible at organising her digital files.
"I can't find the household finance spreadsheet"
"Well, is it in your financial subdirectory, the household one, or do you keep them all in a main spreadsheet directory?"
"I don't know, just help me find it"
"Well, what's it called?"
"I don't know"
"Well, I certainly don't know, you're the one who saved it. Can't you tell me anything that can identify the file?"
"Why are you being like this?"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 26 Sep 2021, 11:36,
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Me and my ex are on excellent terms (irreconcilable differences, no hard feelings, yardage yadda).
She's a dab hand at household plumbing stuff. She can change a tap valve, bleed the radiators, all that jazz She's absolutely fucking useless at computers, though.
Not long after I moved out, the internet started getting a bit shit. She was determined to sort it herself, so called up Plusnet support. The support assistant asked her to open the browser and do a speed test.
Shortly followed by the support assistant explaining what a browser is. She's only 35.
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OneDrive and Google Drive both seem to actively discourage organisation as the entire interface is built around search.
I can find pretty much any file I've worked on in the last 20 years in my filesystem because it's all organised. My OneDrive and Google drives are yawning dumpster fires of despair, where files that drop off my recently used list may as well not exist.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 26 Sep 2021, 12:00,
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I use my Onedrive exclusively as a cloud backup/archive
I've got my NAS set up to perpetually sync certain directories with Onedrive and then my other devices (Phone, Office Computer, etc) can also upload to their respective Onedrive folders/directories which then get synced back at my NAS.
It works great, because as you say, Onedrive's UI is a fucking car crash and this essentially integrates Onedrive into my workflow without needing to directly deal with it. I could theoretically use my NAS as the primary 'cloud' device, but the Android/Windows Onedrive integration is still much more reliable than the solutions from my NAS manufacturer (and my employer's VPN is a lot happier talking to Onedrive than some random computer in somebody's house).
It seems that most of these UI's seem to be heading in the direction of portable device compatibility - which I can understand - but it's a massive pain in the arse for us old gits that still find Windows Explorer to be as transformative now as it was back in 1995.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 26 Sep 2021, 14:24,
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