As I use
about ten different Widows platforms, PC’s, laptop, tablets and phones it is a
must to have my data files in a reliable cloud server. Onedrive has proven to
be reliable and stable, until I updated one of my laptops to windows 10. After
the update I notices that all data had to be stored both locally on the
computer and offline on the cloud server. This creates an unusual amount of net
traffic, which actually bogs up any network connection. Many paces have still
rather limited bandwidth, 10/1, or even less. And upload is usually very slow,
much slower than download. Now my Windows 8 machines just use offline storage,
whit occasional local backups, and this worked nicely.
After
starting to work with Onedrive for Business, things became worse and I had to
shut down the cloud service on my Windows 10 laptop. This has made my life
easier, but it is not very sophisticated to use Onedrive files through a Web
Application.
There are
several work around, but not very elegant. One third party cloud client is orive,
which actually integrates many cloud services, like Onedrive, Dropbox, Google
and a lot of others. Just download the application from odrive for your
platform (Mac or Windows) and start enjoying the lost functionality of Smart
Files. Odrive creates a placeholder on
your system tray, and work just as a directory. But of course remember, these
files are on the Onedrive cloud only, you can access them only when having
network access.
Presently
odrive has no way for integrating Onedrive for Business, so we are still
waiting for that.
