A Hard Day Online Free
Julio Cesar Thap
I have only just discovered a DISASTROUS aspect of Dropbox which is not properly documented .. and I am a years long Dropbox user and pay a subscription yearly for 2 Terrabytes. I was even featured as a Dropbox user and give the interview for free etc and it was used round the company because I really rate(ed) Dropbox...
1/ If you try to Copy a Folder from Dropbox that is ONLINE Only to an External Drive .. this does not work properly. In other words YOU MUST have made the files LOCAL or they will not copy properly from an external Drive
2/ I am astounded that this is not UPFRONT in the documentation regarding transferring Dropbox Files from your Online Dropbox Folder to an external drive. That is the only place I work in: in the folder online. I look always to see the status of whether the files have the green tick or the online only grey.
3/ But here's the worst thing: if you copy a Folder to an External Drive without checking that every thing is Local ( green tick) - if there is any blue downloading symbol or grey cloud online only symbol those files will not copy properly ( BUT ON THE EXTERNAL DRIVE IT LOOKS AS IF THE WHOLE FOLDER HAS COPIED - until you check the sizes of the files, and overall the folder is less GB than the orignal, and individual files have been copied in NAME ONLY with ZERO BYTES....
Take my situation: You have a 500Gb hard drive on a 2015 Macbook Pro. You start running out of storage space. You start putting big older projects on Dropbox and Smartsync them to save space. Then you find yourself still running out of disk space but you need an older project so you realise you have to radically make the huge folder Offline and move stuff completely off your computer.
It has been for me a total waste of time and money to pay for 2 Terrabytes - because I have never in several years of paying for this subscription, which is exorbitantly expensive, never used more than a quarter of it for the reasons above. Too much shuffling and waiting for files to re - constitute on the computer after being in online cold storage.
And one of the complaints I have made with Dropbox when they interviewed me for their publicity ( as a self employed musician etc) is that the jump from a free account to a 2Terrabyte account is too high and there should be something in between for all the reasons above.
When a file or folder is online-only, essentially what you have synced in your Dropbox folder is a placeholder of said file. Therefore what you're copying over to your external hard drive, is the info and placeholders of the files.
Your comments on our plans, and how copying online-only files works have been quite helpful, and I will do everything I can to ensure that your voice is heard. We strive to make Dropbox a safe place for our users, hear what they need and I'll let our team know about your concerns.
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I have the right click option "manage hard drive space", however when I use this feature to "move to online-only" the files do not become online-only, the icon next to the file remains a green tick, if I re-open the right click "manage hard drive space" window, after a few seconds the folder I just tried to make online-only reappears.
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Today I installed an old 80gb Maxtor Diamondmax 10 PATA hard drive into my other PC, a Dell Inspiron 530, as a second HDD. I had to order some new parts to actually connect it up since the PSU and motherboard only have SATA connections and not IDE, but all of those are working fine.
My problem is that this Maxtor drive is not showing up in Windows Explorer. The BIOS sees it, Device Manager sees it, and Disk Management sees it (and even says it's online). Just not Windows Explorer.
Within Disk Management, it doesn't have a drive letter allocated to it, and when I go to right-click the partitions of this drive, everything except "Delete Volume" and "Help" are greyed out. (Screenshot here: )
Thanks for that info. I looked more into file systems and it turns out the disk was neither FAT or NTFS - it was EXT2 which is a Linux file system. I found this out by booting Ubuntu which has support for several file systems.
I migrate companies to SharePoint Online for a living. The biggest hangup my users have after their migration is adopting a new workflow for getting files INTO SharePoint. It's unnecisarily complex. Let me ilustrate my point: (Edit - reposting since my original post disappeared)
See how hard that is? Users coming from mapped drives through on-premises SharePoint and file servers hate that new level of complexity. Below is some basic functionality that would go miles toward improving user adoption:
This was a little general to include in User Voice, but if I can condense it all into a quick blurb I'll throw links down below. Thanks for listening, hopefully the right folks find this feedback helpful! @Sean Squires?
Since we had lots of problems with mapped network drives and trusted site GPO's not always applying correctly. Which stopped them accessing the drives. Also sign on was a problem as users would go to there drives before signing on which doesn't work either.
@Salvatore Biscari I know this process, but you can't expect from end-users to know the url of their libraries by heart. Opening a browser, navigating to the site, copying the url is not user-friendly. The list of your groups should be accessible from within the client applications.
Zee Drive, a commercial drive mapping tool my company develops, also provides reliable network drive mappings to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online with additional features including mapping to shared with me files, sharing directly from Windows File Explorer and viewing version history.
Hi @Paul Youngberg - thank you for sharing! There's actually some great investments happening across client, ODB, Outlook, and SharePoint products to make these saving/sharing scenarios more seamless and user-friendly. Adding a few colleagues - @Lincoln DeMaris and @Christophe Fiessinger for notice and comment.
A GPO solution would be amazing, but even just the possibility to see all the sites in the tenant (or the sites you are following, or those you see at the SharePoint online home page - tenantname.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx) would be great.
This would be ok if Microsoft understood their own generated URLs. For instance, if a user is in a particular folder, and they copy the browser url, the office app does not understand the url and complains to the user.
How does MS expect all users to understand that they need to get the URL of the library and not the folder url. How difficult would it be for the Office Team to parse a url their own product generates?
I cannot believe in this time of SPO and Office 2016/ProPlus that it's still such a pain to save a file from one of the core Office applications. Yes, I know one answer is to get people to go to the library first and start a new document from there, but we're talking about decades of habits/patterns. We're already asking the users to change so much. We get them to buy into the benefits of a document management system, but then we make the experience of saving a file painful. Our credibility often goes down the toilet at this point.
I totally agree. We started using O365 in January and are still using our onsite fileshare as we are unable to find an easy way to explain to people how they can easily save their documents in a SharePoint library. We also struggle with non-microsoft documents (autocad, vectorworks, ...) used by our designers.
Big thanks to @Sean Squires , @Lincoln DeMaris , @Christophe Fiessinger , and anybody else involved with these changes. They were a game changer when they launched and they've been much appreciated by consultants and end-users alike!!
Hi guys. I am taking Psy 101 online because there is no other opening at my college that fits my schedule.(Two question) How hard is this class? and do you guys think this is best for me,since this is my very first online class?.In addition I am also taking Bio 109 on campus.
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