OneDrive has proven to be a frustrating and aggravating unreliable piece of junk.. 

Example 1:

Edited an Excel file.Saved file to Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>Closed Excel.Use Edge to access Gmail account.Created a new messageSelected to attach a fileBrowsed to Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>Selected InsertSent EmailChecked sent messages folder.Opened the sent EmailOpened the attached Excel fileThe file it attached was an old version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Using File browser, Opened <filename> following Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>It is the updated version of the file.Using File browser, Opened <filename> following the path OneDrive/Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename> It is the updated version of the file.Went back to Gmail and created a new EmailSelected to attach a fileBrowsed to Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>Attached <filename>Double clicked the attachment to open fileThe file it attached was an old version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why didn’t OneDrive allow the local copy of the file to be physically updated when I saved it – at the time I saved it.????

Example 2:

With the computer off-line: open <filename>Edit Filename.Save filenameGet warning message that computer is offlineSelect to save the file, anyway.do other things off line.go online and handle other tasksnavigate to and open <filename> It is the unedited version of the file!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sidebar comes up saying excel has a temporary backupWhy didn’t OneDrive allow the local copy of the edited <filename> to be saved as commanded in the first place?Open the temporary backupIt is the edited version of the fileSystem REFUSES to save the backup file to <filename>

Again: OneDrive is a pain to use.  Working with documents is unreliable, you never know which version you are going to get.  When you use File Explorer to navigate to and open the file, it will show the correct version, when you select the file from other applications for it to be inserted, it pulls a previous version of the file.

What is physically written in the Local Copy is unreliable.

PO’ed

​OneDrive has proven to be a frustrating and aggravating unreliable piece of junk.. Example 1:Edited an Excel file.Saved file to Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>Closed Excel.Use Edge to access Gmail account.Created a new messageSelected to attach a fileBrowsed to Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>Selected InsertSent EmailChecked sent messages folder.Opened the sent EmailOpened the attached Excel fileThe file it attached was an old version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Using File browser, Opened <filename> following Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>It is the updated version of the file.Using File browser, Opened <filename> following the path OneDrive/Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename> It is the updated version of the file.Went back to Gmail and created a new EmailSelected to attach a fileBrowsed to Documents/(subfolder chain)/<filename>Attached <filename>Double clicked the attachment to open fileThe file it attached was an old version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Why didn’t OneDrive allow the local copy of the file to be physically updated when I saved it – at the time I saved it.???? Example 2:With the computer off-line: open <filename>Edit Filename.Save filenameGet warning message that computer is offlineSelect to save the file, anyway.do other things off line.go online and handle other tasksnavigate to and open <filename> It is the unedited version of the file!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sidebar comes up saying excel has a temporary backupWhy didn’t OneDrive allow the local copy of the edited <filename> to be saved as commanded in the first place?Open the temporary backupIt is the edited version of the fileSystem REFUSES to save the backup file to <filename>Again: OneDrive is a pain to use.  Working with documents is unreliable, you never know which version you are going to get.  When you use File Explorer to navigate to and open the file, it will show the correct version, when you select the file from other applications for it to be inserted, it pulls a previous version of the file.What is physically written in the Local Copy is unreliable. PO’ed      Read More

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