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When I bought the Surface Pro 2 it came with 200GB of Onedrive (then Skydrive) space and two years free. Now I can't live without it. I have a laptop, desktop, Surface, and two windows phones all synced with Onedrive. All my documents, music, pictures, and videos are synced with all these devices. With some devices, like the Surface, I don't have everything available offline. So when I'm using my Surface (with 8.1 pro) I can see all the files that are available offline and available online only. Then by right clicking I can choose individual files to make available offline (download them) or entire folders.
With Windows 10 TP 10130 I cant do that at all. All I have is a place for Onedrive and nothing is visible. If I open Onedrive through the PC (and its not incredibly obvious) I can choose to sync folders. But the problem is I cant see individual files in those folders nor can I choose to download just one or multiple files. So if I want to have a file I have to download the ENTIRE folder which could contain hundreds of songs or files AND I wouldn't even be sure the file I was looking for was in THAT folder. Of course I could go to Onedrive.com and manually go through the folders and download files but that isn't as convenient and I want an option right in PC to do it.
If this is how the final version of Windows 10 is going to be It may be a very good reason to stay behind to windows 8.1 pro. I don't even mind 8.1, in fact I like it. It's faster, more stable, and easier to use (for me) than 7. I read the reason Microsoft is doing this, is because it was "confusing" to people not knowing what files/folders they actually had on their PC and which were only online. C'mon, really? It says right next to each file/folder available offline/online. Do they really have to dumb everything down to the point were it's almost patronizing? Same with the "full screen button" for the start menu. I thought that was a nice option to quickly toggle between the traditional start menu and full screen. But now they have removed that, reportedly because people were getting confused and thought they were entering tablet mode when clicking on the full screen button. Seriously? Tablet mode is right in the notifications area. So once again they removed a nice feature for the sake of "keeping it simple" and "not confusing people" I really don't want Microsoft to become apple and take away so much customization and modification possibilities.
Sorry for the rant but it is frustrating and if anyone knows something I don't about onedrive or what the final version will entail please share it. I love Microsoft and Win10 looks promising but I don't want to have to stay with 8.1 because some very important functionality was removed.
When I bought the Surface Pro 2 it came with 200GB of Onedrive (then Skydrive) space and two years free. Now I can't live without it. I have a laptop, desktop, Surface, and two windows phones all synced with Onedrive. All my documents, music, pictures, and videos are synced with all these devices. With some devices, like the Surface, I don't have everything available offline. So when I'm using my Surface (with 8.1 pro) I can see all the files that are available offline and available online only. Then by right clicking I can choose individual files to make available offline (download them) or entire folders.
With Windows 10 TP 10130 I cant do that at all. All I have is a place for Onedrive and nothing is visible. If I open Onedrive through the PC (and its not incredibly obvious) I can choose to sync folders. But the problem is I cant see individual files in those folders nor can I choose to download just one or multiple files. So if I want to have a file I have to download the ENTIRE folder which could contain hundreds of songs or files AND I wouldn't even be sure the file I was looking for was in THAT folder. Of course I could go to Onedrive.com and manually go through the folders and download files but that isn't as convenient and I want an option right in PC to do it.
If this is how the final version of Windows 10 is going to be It may be a very good reason to stay behind to windows 8.1 pro. I don't even mind 8.1, in fact I like it. It's faster, more stable, and easier to use (for me) than 7. I read the reason Microsoft is doing this, is because it was "confusing" to people not knowing what files/folders they actually had on their PC and which were only online. C'mon, really? It says right next to each file/folder available offline/online. Do they really have to dumb everything down to the point were it's almost patronizing? Same with the "full screen button" for the start menu. I thought that was a nice option to quickly toggle between the traditional start menu and full screen. But now they have removed that, reportedly because people were getting confused and thought they were entering tablet mode when clicking on the full screen button. Seriously? Tablet mode is right in the notifications area. So once again they removed a nice feature for the sake of "keeping it simple" and "not confusing people" I really don't want Microsoft to become apple and take away so much customization and modification possibilities.
Sorry for the rant but it is frustrating and if anyone knows something I don't about onedrive or what the final version will entail please share it. I love Microsoft and Win10 looks promising but I don't want to have to stay with 8.1 because some very important functionality was removed.
MS did say that they will make option available to mobile users to access onedrive files offline, of course that means downloading them to the phone or just the ones you need and knowing that they will sync. A date for this option wasn't given, but it would coincide with w10
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