OneDrive Now Requiring NTFS formatted drives - Users Angry

Published 2017-07-05 08:16 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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LBJM

2017-07-07 03:06

Even more strange move when you use OneDrive on other OS that doesn't use NTFS... I guess it is intended to lock you in M$ product... Strange days: [..] M$ react like Apple 10 years ago (when now Apple open little by little it's system) ... ??? i will go back to mechanical type writer ((lol 🙂 ))

This is how Microsoft has acted for decades. This whole let's play nice thing is only because they've started to lose market share. Here's some quick links for you to learn about MS http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html http://listverse.com/2014/10/04/10-unsettling-facts-about-microsoft/ If you want to find more info check out the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

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LBJM

2017-07-07 03:08

Wrong. It's always required NTFS. Users without NTFS were supposed to have gotten an error message but that feature didn't work. They've just fixed that feature hence why it's stopped working. https://www.windowscentral.com/recent-onedrive-update-limiting-file-system-options-ntfs-was-intentional

And windowscentral.com is not bought and paid for by MS...

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pittiez

2017-07-07 16:20

I discovered this a few years back, basically onedrive uses ntfs custom flags to keep track of files that need to be uploaded or downloaded or synced since it cannot flag the files, it gets confused and re downloads copy's of them (file, file(1), file(2)...) then it uploads the file to the cloud, basically trashes your one drive cloud and fills up the space. also some game patches utillize ntfs custom flags in a similar fashion

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nick0323

2017-07-08 22:22

And windowscentral.com is not bought and paid for by MS...

Your evidence sir?

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schmidtbag

2017-07-08 23:18

Your evidence sir?

It appears to me it is owned by Mobile Nations, which is in turn part of Purch Group. Even if MS has anything to do with it, they're way too far removed.

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geogan

2017-07-12 13:11

Nothing unreasonable here. Nobody should be using the anciant and **** FAT32 on any drive these days. It's error correction is not existant compared to NTFS. If there are any problems with the filesystem due to power loss or something else, you will most likely corrupt and lose *everything* on a FAT32 partition. NTFS has way more advanced error correction and recovery mechanisms. Stay the **** away from FAT32 at all costs!

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The Goose

2017-07-12 14:45

.....People still use Fat32 on hd/ssd....WOW.

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RealNC

2017-07-12 15:21

Nothing unreasonable here. Nobody should be using the anciant and **** FAT32 on any drive these days. It's error correction is not existant compared to NTFS.

Sure. But what about ReFS and exFAT?

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XP-200

2017-07-12 17:19

Just wait until they find would MS are no longer supprting windows 95. lol