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Background:

  • At work we use MS Office, because who doesn't. We used to have a central file server with lots of well sorted directories.
  • Then Corporate decided to ditch that, everything must move into OneDrive so there's always a Data Owner.
  • The local boss had to move everything from the network share into his own OneDrive, and then share, with each of us, the folders that were relevant to each of us.
  • This sounds like distributed storage, which is probably smart in some way.

In reality, it's shit. Everything is now a link to "corporateName.sharepoint.com" in the browser, and it's a hassle to find that in the file explorer. SOmeone just shared a folder with me. I see it in my browser. How do I get it from the browser into a normal folder view? Should I forget about on-disk storage; is everything today just a browser bookmark?

Worse, I have no idea what's where. Some people share some stuff and somehow it ends up in my OneDrive, but what's the context of it?

This seems so wrong to me. Am I just not "getting" it??

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not going to pretend that it works great but it sounds to me like you need to know how it works a little better

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heh, if only I were in a position to change anything. Maybe bosmang should be smarter, and move it from OneDrive to SharePoint. Who gonna explain it to him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you do a little research and figure out how to get it setup you can share that knowledge with your boss. There are SOME things that could depend on how IT or the SharePoint owner configured things - like at my job there's one SharePoint where they turned off linking it in my OneDrive - but otherwise you should be able to get it close to how it used to be.

It's definitely silly for your boss to keep it all in his onedrive and sharing it out. OneDrive is supposed to be personal storage that you CAN collaborate on. SharePoint and Teams (basically SharePoint on the back end) are where team-wide storage should be. But, having gone through a transition to M365 I understand they probably just don't understand and did what they thought they could.

[–] Tsubodai 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah by default, all sharepoint at my work can't be mapped to a regular folder, so I'm stuck with having to make shortcuts to everything. And there's so many, effectively means that my browser has loads of links open, and when I reboot the laptop, first thing I now do is to restore history to get them all back. Hate it.