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Some time ago someone posted that SkyDrive (now OneDrive) did


Disclaimer: MSFT-employed.

It's OneDrive for Business (i.e. SharePoint) that sometimes modifies uploaded files. To the best of my knowledge, OneDrive Consumer (http://onedrive.com) operates no differently than `rsync` would.


how/why?


They are completely unrelated products, except for branding.

Yeah, I know. Sigh.


I've seen Microsoft employees across the web have to point this out a dozen times.

"The New Microsoft" seems to be making better decisions overall, but it apparently didn't learn anything from the early-2000s ".net branding clusterfuck" which conflated their runtime platform, development tools, consumer-facing single-sign-on, and a few dozen other things in the mind of the public.


I think you nailed it.

Perhaps out of hope but more likely Stockholm syndrome, over the last decade I seem to have got stuck in a cycle of: Blind love and hope for a new product of theirs, utter disappointment at the resulting clusterfuck after a week, hatred, switch to something else, miss it, go crawling back.

Only just broken out of this loop but to be honest it knackered my productivity badly over the years.

Ultimately I'm a sucker I suspect but the revelation that FreeBSD hadn't actually poked me in the eye once in the last decade had turned my hand finally. That and ruby.

Yes I got tangled in DNA, ATL etc as well. Nothing but regret.


because onedrive for business runs on top of SharePoint document libraries and well.. they can do some "interesting" things to files.


Same with OneNote. It has a lot of great features... and a metrick fuckload of legacy creepy crawlies under the hood.


I think the rationale was some kind of Sharepoint tagging abomination.


IIRC only OneDrive for Business (née SharePoint) did that, not the OneDrive consumers use.




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