Microsoft Sends OneDrive URL Upload Feature To the Cloud Graveyard (theregister.com) 13
Microsoft has abruptly pulled a feature from OneDrive that allows users to upload files to the cloud storage service directly from a URL. From a report: The feature turned up as a preview in 2021 and was intended for scenarios "where the file contents aren't available, or are expensive to transfer," according to Microsoft. It was particularly useful for mobile users, for whom uploading files directly through their apps could be costly. Much better to simply point OneDrive at a given URL and let it handle the upload itself.
However, the experimental feature never made it past the consumer version of OneDrive. It also didn't fit with Microsoft's "vision for OneDrive as a cloud storage service that syncs your files across devices." Indeed, the idea of hosing data into OneDrive from a remote source sits at odds with the file synchronization model being championed by Microsoft and conveniently available from macOS and Windows.
However, the experimental feature never made it past the consumer version of OneDrive. It also didn't fit with Microsoft's "vision for OneDrive as a cloud storage service that syncs your files across devices." Indeed, the idea of hosing data into OneDrive from a remote source sits at odds with the file synchronization model being championed by Microsoft and conveniently available from macOS and Windows.
never trust the cloud (Score:2)
The weather changes all the time.
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Cloud, noun, English, fluffy looking puff of vapor without substance.
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time to finish the job (Score:2)
The graveyard is missing the entirety of OneDrive.
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Why is that?
Onedrive is a fine 3rd level backup (Score:2)
..in a distributed backup strategy with main storage and primary backup installed in the local computer and secondary backup inserted into a mobile dock as needed
I would NEVER trust the cloud for my primary data
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I would NEVER trust the cloud for my primary data
Why is that?
Re: Onedrive is a fine 3rd level backup (Score:1)
Re: Onedrive is a fine 3rd level backup (Score:1)
OneDrive is keeping COM alive (Score:4, Interesting)
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To be fair, no engineer at MS probably could fathom that someone would actually use that junk, let along wanting to create a template for it.
Triple the bandwidth waste! (Score:3)
So instead of absorbing the bandwidth to ingest a file once, they're going to make you download it and upload it yourself, so they still have to use the same amount of bandwidth AND waste the user's time and bandwidth?
Great thinking there, Microbrains.
At odds with the synchronization model? (Score:2)
How is that? If you upload a file directly from a URL, it would then be synchronized to all of the devices attached to that OneDrive account. I don't see the conflict.
Re: At odds with the synchronization model? (Score:1)
There's always a first upload of some file. I see no conceptual difference to the file upload button in the web interface.