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.
(, Sun 26 Sep 2021, 12:19, Reply)
