I’ve been dual-booting Linux and Windows for a while, with Windows as the fall-back option in case I wanted to use Office for something. Now that they tried to trick me into paying a subscription for their AI slop machine, I’m finally, fully out. It was a pain to actually track down and back-up the stuff that was held for ransom in OneDrive, but now it is done.

  • lazynoobletEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    What was painful about getting the stuff out of OneDrive?

    When I did this it was straight forward.

    • Sync to local
    • Move all to new directory (his triggers a mass deletion on OneDrive)
    • Sync to seafile (in my case)
    • @PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      10•2 months ago

      mainly it was because I was trying it from my linux desktop, and if you try to download a large collection of files from the onedrive web interface it’s 50/50 if it fails half-way through

      • lazynoobletEnglish
        6•2 months ago

        Ah yes. I’ve had the same issue. The web download is hit and miss. Totally understand, and a warranted description of that experience.