I’ve been using it for years and for the most part if you want to go back and access a video you uploaded, it stalls and buffers and makes the videos useless to watch without redownloading them to your device.

Also when you are uploading and creating folders, when you want to deposit something into a folder it kicks you back out to the parent menu and you have to scroll back down and find the folder you made again, it constantly kicks you back out to the previous level and you have to start all over again.

😡

I’m pretty sure technology has advanced to the point that this frustrating glitch could be easily remedied on their end.

And if you upload something from your device to onedrive in order to free up some space on your device, You better wait at least a day before deleting it from your device, otherwise when you go back to access it on Microsoft OneDrive, you might find that it doesn’t exist because you deleted it too soon from your device after uploading to OneDrive, even after visually and experientially confirming that it did indeed upload to OneDrive.

I switched to Microsoft OneDrive after deciding that Dropbox sucks. Dropbox sucks because it requires to use Microsoft Windows, otherwise it will take up all the storage space on your device unless you go deep into some settings in Microsoft Windows to untoggle that “option.” So I tried to untoggle that option by using someone else’s Microsoft Windows for a minute but I couldn’t find the obscure settings for this obscure problem, and I don’t have nor want Microsoft Windows, it is extortionate.

The only reason I ended up with Microsoft OneDrive was that I was in a pinch and I needed a cloud storage solution to replace Dropbox because Dropbox had rendered my phone useless by maxxing out its internal storage.

I haven’t delved into the Linux options yet, I need to work on synchronizing all my devices with Linux and getting rid of windows & Google. I’m so sick of their extortionate practices.

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Syncthing is what Dropbox was before Dropbox became a cloud service. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, efficiently and using encryption. It uses open protocols and is open source.

      https://syncthing.net/

      A NAS is Network Attached Storage. It’s basically just a computer dedicated to providing you storage space. (Could be as simple as an old laptop with external USB drives hosting a Windows share to … much much more complicated, including dedicated specialized hardware or NAS-specific OS). Having your own NAS is important to building your own cloud alternatives, in my opinion.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        6 months ago

        Thank you for the information. I’m leaning toward buying my own external drive with as many terabytes as affordable, I think that qualifies as NAS? Then I would be extra careful to only store things on it that I really want to keep.

        Are you familiar enough with such devices you might be able to recommend me some examples of external drives to purchase?

        • TeddE@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          That would provide the storage. If you left it connected to a computer that was permanently on, and that computer was connected to a network, you’ve got a NAS. ☺️

          There’s more to grow from there. You’ll want to consider backups before too long as a safeguard against data loss, (but if this is your first NAS, that can be a task for another day)