OneDrive isn't good

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I'm going to start posting about tech junk, and I'll start with this observation.

Microsoft's OneDrive is pretty terrible. I tried to move a large number of files to the cloud (I have 1TB OneDrive storage), and it has proven basically impossible to accomplish. The OneDrive app crashes my network, and it's not even clear what it's doing in the background because the UI is garbage. It's constantly reporting different file numbers and total file size to be synced to the cloud, but the two numbers don't seem to work in concert with what's actually on my physical SSD. 

Also, you can't upload files from an external drive, that doesn't work. So if you have a 500GB SSD in your ultrabook, it's essentially impossible to use your full 1TB on the cloud. Yes, technically you can probably move a block of files from the external drive to your local drive, sync those up to the cloud, set the files to stream on demand rather than be stored locally, delete the local copies, and then do the same with a new block of files, but fuck. It's 2022. Isn't one major point of the cloud to allow people to use relatively slim clients?

If you need to pause syncing for, say, bandwidth issues, you cannot adjust settings while the sync is paused. (The image below isn't clear, but "Settings" is greyed out until I click "Resume syncing".) It's not at all clear to me why adjusting settings is inexorably related to syncing files. Someone made that choice, and that someone should be spoken to.

I'll add more problems as I find them. This is my first experience trying to use this mess.

Update 1: I pulled the plug on my attempt to upload the batch of files referenced above. I was not able to delete the files from my local SSD. I don't know why. No error message. But every time I used the explorer to delete (eg., selecting the folder -> right click -> delete; select folder -> drag to recycle bin; go inside the parent folder and try same on subfolders), the folders and files remained. I assume OneDrive was blocking my attempt to delete without any notification. Eventually, I went to the web app and downloaded the folder there. That appears to have "worked" in some sense. But now, OneDrive app on my local machine is "processing changes" at the rate of 3 files per second or so. At that rate, it will take 111+ minutes to delete the files on my local drive. Ummm ... really?

 

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