OneDrive Weird behavior
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I'm upgrading the HDD. I created a "Backup" folder in local disk & moved all the pile of files & folders and centralized there. Then I enabled "OneDrive" sync for this folder. OneDrive service automatically started uploading all the files to Cloud Disk. This is all great. Now the problem. I'm not able to copy this whole bunch of files from the OneDrive folder , in my local computer to any other destination folder in the same local computer or to an external USB Storage. When I select the folder and copy, and paste, it visually simulates a copy/paste as it's moving 10 GB data in a flash, but in the destination folder I see nothing actually moved. I tried closing OneDrive Sync service. No use, same gimmick happening , it just fakes up the copy/paste. Such a bad experience! :doh: PS: File-by-File or Single Folder copy paste is working , but how on earth I could navigate to a thousand folder and copy files one by one ? Whenever a folder structure is nested, is not working. MORAL OF THE STORY: When you want to take a back up of your files, first complete the USB/Local transfer before you fiddle with Cloud backup.
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I'm upgrading the HDD. I created a "Backup" folder in local disk & moved all the pile of files & folders and centralized there. Then I enabled "OneDrive" sync for this folder. OneDrive service automatically started uploading all the files to Cloud Disk. This is all great. Now the problem. I'm not able to copy this whole bunch of files from the OneDrive folder , in my local computer to any other destination folder in the same local computer or to an external USB Storage. When I select the folder and copy, and paste, it visually simulates a copy/paste as it's moving 10 GB data in a flash, but in the destination folder I see nothing actually moved. I tried closing OneDrive Sync service. No use, same gimmick happening , it just fakes up the copy/paste. Such a bad experience! :doh: PS: File-by-File or Single Folder copy paste is working , but how on earth I could navigate to a thousand folder and copy files one by one ? Whenever a folder structure is nested, is not working. MORAL OF THE STORY: When you want to take a back up of your files, first complete the USB/Local transfer before you fiddle with Cloud backup.
Nand32 wrote:
how on earth I could navigate to a thousand folder and copy files one by one ?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I'm upgrading the HDD. I created a "Backup" folder in local disk & moved all the pile of files & folders and centralized there. Then I enabled "OneDrive" sync for this folder. OneDrive service automatically started uploading all the files to Cloud Disk. This is all great. Now the problem. I'm not able to copy this whole bunch of files from the OneDrive folder , in my local computer to any other destination folder in the same local computer or to an external USB Storage. When I select the folder and copy, and paste, it visually simulates a copy/paste as it's moving 10 GB data in a flash, but in the destination folder I see nothing actually moved. I tried closing OneDrive Sync service. No use, same gimmick happening , it just fakes up the copy/paste. Such a bad experience! :doh: PS: File-by-File or Single Folder copy paste is working , but how on earth I could navigate to a thousand folder and copy files one by one ? Whenever a folder structure is nested, is not working. MORAL OF THE STORY: When you want to take a back up of your files, first complete the USB/Local transfer before you fiddle with Cloud backup.
Well, coming from someone else this would sound weird. But since I am the Lord of weirdness, I will suggest it anyway. FWIIW: When I (programmatically) stored some spreadsheets in a OneDrive folder, they couldn't be opened in Excel with a double click. The result was a "not found" kind of error. So, I created a symlink to that OneDive folder and that solved my problem. Weird.
>64 If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'm upgrading the HDD. I created a "Backup" folder in local disk & moved all the pile of files & folders and centralized there. Then I enabled "OneDrive" sync for this folder. OneDrive service automatically started uploading all the files to Cloud Disk. This is all great. Now the problem. I'm not able to copy this whole bunch of files from the OneDrive folder , in my local computer to any other destination folder in the same local computer or to an external USB Storage. When I select the folder and copy, and paste, it visually simulates a copy/paste as it's moving 10 GB data in a flash, but in the destination folder I see nothing actually moved. I tried closing OneDrive Sync service. No use, same gimmick happening , it just fakes up the copy/paste. Such a bad experience! :doh: PS: File-by-File or Single Folder copy paste is working , but how on earth I could navigate to a thousand folder and copy files one by one ? Whenever a folder structure is nested, is not working. MORAL OF THE STORY: When you want to take a back up of your files, first complete the USB/Local transfer before you fiddle with Cloud backup.
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