OneDrive... oh how I dislike how it's got. It used to be seen as a drive, like the name, now it's trying to masquerade as a one stop storage and backup stop. Which is a shame, as it's horrible as the latter, but generally useful as the former. I've been using it since it was SkyDrive, and I've got the "SkyDrive Photos" to prove it, so I've been riding this horse for a while.
I was one of the few who got into the Windows Phone thing. I got one of the Windows 7 phones, which I still have, and I like it very much. (Hmmm... future discussion? Sounds likely!) The copy-your-photos-to-SkyDrive perk was pretty cool at the time as phones were starting to get good enough for functional tasks so I'd do loads of reference and reminder style photos, which I could then go though on a PC with my phone elsewhere. (It's becoming harder and harder to leave your phone elsewhere. (Hmmmm... future discussion? Sounds likely!)) I later got Office 365 which comes with a bundled OneDrive expansion which encouraged me to try to use it more as a drive... which worked well. But.... sharing... nope. I for a time was using it to share code with my co-workers. (Hmmm... future discussion? Sounds likely!) Sharing is one of the features that you're supposed to be able to do, so I'd save a zip archive of around 50MB, and share a link. It'd work for a time, but then (and this happened at least twice) something would trigger it and Microsoft would lock down my entire Microsoft account forcing me to prove my identity. Sigh. As a result I do share with OneDrive occasionally, but I'm generally quite tense while doing so!
The next issue I've had is it's auto-we'll-make-your-desktop-be-synced-on-OneDrive feature. I allowed this at first, but then one time I had an account on another machine that had no relation to my usual stuff, but I signed into Microsoft and, by either my fault or not, the desktop became shared. Once I noticed it I stopped it, and then it proceeded to delete the local desktop as it had not finished syncing, and gave me an empty desktop in return. Nothing important was lost thankfully, as I backup things in triplicate if they are, but scary none the less. So yeah. I don't run OneDrive as a desktop, or any system folder, these days. I create a single folder that I share between devices, which mostly seems to work, and I sure wish Microsoft would stop trying to make me feel bad for not "backing up" my work on OneDrive...
