What’s most frustrating to me is how slapdash One Drive is to this day. It is their easiest way to get consumers to start paying for services, yet the product still has embarrassing limitations.
Two that I hit on my corporate machine:
- struggles with too many files. Last I looked, official Microsoft documentation says to not exceed 100k files. Yet, $WORK wants to dump basically every file I touch inside there. My Teams folder alone is ~20k files.
- has a max file path limit which is less than the allowable on NTFS. I use some software with a heavily nested folder structure which One Drive cannot accommodate. A valid Windows file path cannot be backed up by their promoted solution.
I work at a private university that has gone all-in with MS. We have OneDrive and I believe custom BGP routes straight to Azure with 200G pipes.
This product is complete garbage. I try to upload/share large files to individuals within the institution. It constantly fails when upload or downloading anything over 5GB. The pipe to my desk is 1000/1000. What is the issue? Is OneDrive literally only meant to be used for documents yet we're told by central IT to use it for research data?
>What is the issue? Is OneDrive literally only meant to be used for documents yet we're told by central IT to use it for research data?
frankly yes
Long file paths in windows are a wreck as it is. I have no idea why it is not enabled by default in this day and age.
Yeah, windows is a hydra of weirdness, where some things fully support longpaths, but random things will come up that don’t, or fail to properly check and handle things, because no one ever got around to fixing it.
But even the linux kernel will quickly start having problems if one starts having long filenames with multi-bit unicode characters, that 255 bit size max can go fast. Many filesystems for linux actually support larger filenames than what the kernel does.
That’s excusable if the product is made by over burdened open source volunteers. One Drive is generating revenue for Microsoft, yet they still cannot be bothered to shore up a product in the spotlight.
Some of the grievances are highly reported for years, but nobody seems to care.
This is not just a Windows thing. Plenty of Unix software struggles with long paths as well.
Got bit by this(1) clown that decided to do a crazy long version number as a joke and release it in pypi. Broke a few local pypi caches. Breakdown in the github issue at (2). So ... pobody's nerfect.
1) https://pypi.org/project/uselesscapitalquiz/ 2) https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch//issues/1200#issuecomme...
I’m pretty sure it also has additional limits of which characters are valid. I tried it long ago, and quickly dropped it because of that nonsense.