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Rod Benson
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I know you get asked this question a lot but really I am astounded at just how difficult you are making it for IT professionals. Something as seemingly trivial as wanting to create a system where several uses share a common one drive in a public document directory is sooo difficult to get working because mysteriously unless you switch off office updating in onedrive and set word default save location to the public directory word appears to save directly to the cloud and then downloads a local copy which can only be viewed by the person who created it even if another user has administrator privileges and is using the same one drive credentials. Anyway when I finally worked out a workaround to this perplexing problem I then think OK so now I have set it all up I will just disk image the laptop. Oh but you can't do that in windows 10. You have to go back to the old control panel and use a windows 7 disk image (why bother as a multibillion company trying to clean up your menu system, why not leave a half baked control panel on top of your new windows 10 system settings) which doesn't support a USB drive even though it has 64 GB and I am trying to back up a 16GB hard drive. Again no workaround as I can see just a stupid message saying that the USB drive is not valid.
Oh and default directory redirection. Of course if you dare muck about with the backup facility in onedrive it simply moves without warning you the location of your default directories into onedrive rather than (as any normal human being would expect) adding these directories to a onedrive backup outside of onedrive and leaving the mapping alone (but why do something sensible like Google drive). Of course once onedrive has moved the location you can't restore it as you get an error along the lines of can't move the directory (or something like that). Ahh but there used to be a registry workaround. Oh yes but I see now you have yet again expanded the registry. Why bother only storing the document directory pointer in the HKCU/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/shell folders hive? Not sure how many places inside the registry this info is now duplicated I see we now have HKCU/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/User shell folders where personal data now starts with the replaceable parameter %systemdrive%/etc. Seriously I am a biologist and I am told that millions of years of evolution is why most mammalian genomes look a bit messy. Yet compared to your registry mammalian genetics looks quite well designed. Do you have some secret evolution program going on at Microsoft where you just randomly mutate the registry and then hope that your poor long suffering end users act as the a form of a natural selection as we battle to try and make sense of how to do what should be simple workarounds? Totally fed up to be honest, but sadly you have a monopoly so I guess we just must put up with it. Grrhh
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Oh and default directory redirection. Of course if you dare muck about with the backup facility in onedrive it simply moves without warning you the location of your default directories into onedrive rather than (as any normal human being would expect) adding these directories to a onedrive backup outside of onedrive and leaving the mapping alone (but why do something sensible like Google drive). Of course once onedrive has moved the location you can't restore it as you get an error along the lines of can't move the directory (or something like that). Ahh but there used to be a registry workaround. Oh yes but I see now you have yet again expanded the registry. Why bother only storing the document directory pointer in the HKCU/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/shell folders hive? Not sure how many places inside the registry this info is now duplicated I see we now have HKCU/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/User shell folders where personal data now starts with the replaceable parameter %systemdrive%/etc. Seriously I am a biologist and I am told that millions of years of evolution is why most mammalian genomes look a bit messy. Yet compared to your registry mammalian genetics looks quite well designed. Do you have some secret evolution program going on at Microsoft where you just randomly mutate the registry and then hope that your poor long suffering end users act as the a form of a natural selection as we battle to try and make sense of how to do what should be simple workarounds? Totally fed up to be honest, but sadly you have a monopoly so I guess we just must put up with it. Grrhh
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