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OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OneDrive users around the world have been upset to discover that with its latest update, Microsoft's cloud file syncing and storage system no longer works with anything other than disks formatted with the NTFS file system. Both older file systems, such as FAT32 and exFAT, and newer ones, such as ReFS, will now provoke an error message when OneDrive starts up. To continue to use the software, files will have to be stored on an NTFS volume. While FAT disks can be converted, ReFS volumes must be reformatted and wiped. This has left various OneDrive users unhappy. While NTFS is the default file system in Windows, people using SD cards to extend the storage on small laptops and tablets will typically use exFAT. Similarly, people using Storage Spaces to manage large, redundant storage volumes will often use ReFS. The new policy doesn't change anything for most Windows users, but those at the margins will feel hard done by. Microsoft said in a statement that it "discovered a warning message that should have existed was missing when a user attempted to store their OneDrive folder on a non-NTFS filesystem -- which was immediately remedied." According to Ars, Microsoft's position, apparently, is that OneDrive should always have warned about these usage scenarios and that it's only a bug or an oversight that allowed non-NTFS volumes to work.
"We... fixed the glitch."
my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their
I'm, you're, he's/she's/it's, we're, you're, they're
Usually they declare a bug to be a feature so they don't have to fix it. This time they called a feature a bug & fixed it right away. Round and round we go!
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. Seth
"ZeroDrive"
Table-ized A.I.
Yep. They don't want Loonix scum using OneDrive.
Quite a while ago OneDrive started using streams on objects for sync metadata. I assume that is a requirement for optimized syncing. To the best of my knowledge, streams are not available on Fat32 or exFat.
Are you paying them huge sums of money? No? Yeah, that's why they don't care little snowflake.
This is yet another opportunity to remind you of the benefits of "The Cloud" (storing your data on other people's servers), one of the stupidest things that people do.
Well, ignore my comment. The only stream I found in my OneDrive folder was on the root folder object.
So they nuked all other Windows formats but it works just fine on a Mac not using NTFS (MacOS Extended Journaled for example).... Seems rather arbitrary that they didn't even give a technical reason for the removal.
Seems like the extinguish phase just started.
If they never officially believed that they supported it, they probably never QAed it. So now they have a choice to greatly expand the amount of QA coverage (since they basically have to run every test case against every combination of formatted drives) or just fix it not to pretend to support the thing they didn't test.
. . . every file system under the sun is supported.
But of course OneDrive can't use rsync, because it wasn't invented here.
Their statement and the explanation they offer are a clear example of leveraging the power software proprietors all have: the power to make the terms of the product or service work the way they want it to work and change those terms at any time (including whether to notify users or get the user's consent).
Digital Citizen
15 G, then 5 G and now - hrm......
Are there humans at work - let's assume, then what is their frame of mind?
Imagine, sitting in an office and then comes the work order to .... and you just do what is on that work order and swallow your thoughts about it down...
or, don't even think about it further and do the job, because you have to make a buck and live.
That's how all those popups, nagging ads and other crap comes to life - or that's how the system works, not necessarily for the benefit and enjoyment of the guy/gal at the end of the line.
The mental consequences of constantly blocking out are not researched.
Keep enjoying!
NTFS drivers for Linux exist don't they?
It's in the cloud, so everything is fine right?
Onedrive is akin to a network share, so it shouldn't even care what the native filesystem is. I could backup my PCs from a network share in Time Machine, so it's an artifiacial limitation
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
Sorry, but if you are not paying them in some way, you are not a customer. You are a consumer; you may be a user; some might unfairly say a freeloader. But suggesting you are a customer implies exchange of value. (Merriam Webster, for example, Customer (n): 1: one that purchases a commodity or service The customer used a credit card for the purchase).
Just a FYI, there is a mac client. This article is targeted at windows users, it still works fine on OSX.
Its just plain dumb from Microsoft to actually NOT develop a Linux or Mac client.
They have a Mac, iOS and Android clients so that they cover 99% of users that matter.
NTFS supports teh data streams for things like Indexing
http://saveie6.com/
OneDrive is working just fine on HPS+ and APFS.
Why wouldn't they? Are they better served with non Windows users using a non Microsoft product?
This has nothing to do with Linux.
To do whatever it takes to piss you, the end user. As usual, a big middle finger for you, Microsoft.
So only a fraction of 1% of Mac users will be affected?
Sorry, but if you are not paying them in some way, you are not a customer.
Customers are in fact paying Microsoft. Part of the price of a PC not made by Apple or System76 is a royalty for the OEM copy of Windows installed on the PC.
I have to be frank. I am hard pressed to have sympathy for someone who had a non-standard configuration AND relied on Microsoft OneDrive. I spent my last empathy on somebody more important, to me at least Microsoft could announce that they are going to start murdering children and assuming governorship of a third-world country, solely to exploit their wealth. They could say they are coming to your house, just to piss on your couch, and I'm pretty much out of sympathy.
I fucking spent it. Really, I spent my sympathy. I think the last bulk amount was spent in Rawanda. I think... The final straw was here, in my own country.
Seriously, people keep going back for more. People keep going backto Microsoft and paying Microsoft just so they can say to Microsoft, 'Please, sir. May I have another?'
I stand up for microsoft, pretty often. But, if you pay them money, with any other expectation of getting fucked, you're an idiot. It might not even be Microsoft who fucks you, directly. It may be a contractor, or an external hacker who has varied sets of morals. You're getting fucked.
It's not unlike Oracle. You will get fucked by Oracle.
But... Is there any path where they don't get fucked? You even get fucked as a Linux user.
You might just as well buy good lube.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."