Our work does basically all of that…and I hate it. I can’t connect to the corporate One Drive without also being on the corporate VPN since it stores it all on the corporate Share Point server.
They have it set up so it auto deletes everything more than 2 years old. It doesn’t delete folders…so if you don’t look at something frequently all the sudden you just have a bunch of empty folders. Lost my entire ‘Useful SQL queries’ folder contents this way. I wrote them years ago…still useful but because I didn’t change them and just ran them. They’re deleted…WTF?
So now I get to go into the recycle bin in SharePoint and recover files it decided to delete every week. I’m so glad this is ‘saving me time’ and ‘preventing me from losing files’. I’ve lost more files to One Drive in the last year than in the last 20 of just using my local hard drive.
I have a worse example of this. Was talking to somebody at a party and they mentioned they’ve lived in this town their whole lives. They asked where I lived and I mention the town name thinking we’ll just move on in this small talk but they asked me how far away that is. I’m like…from here(the party location) to my actual place? Thinking it was a round about way of asking ‘how long did it take you to get here?’. Nope, just in general. I was kind of stunned and didn’t really know how to answer. These towns border each other in no small way. This person has been driving for over a decade and somehow doesn’t know the towns that border the only town they’ve ever lived in. This isn’t some place across the globe. They spend all their time right here. The conversation only kept going downhill from there.