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Re:Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover by skinnymuch on Friday July 28, 2017 @11:00AM (#14874717)
I think OneDrive for Business is like the Skype Business (not sure the name) issue. Where they just renamed it. The exe was still Lynx.exe for some time.

I have had over 500GB syncing on OneDrive before via an office 365 account. It was fine. It would crash or mess up a lot more in early 2016 and 2015. But has been pretty good in the past year.

OneDrive still has issues though.

It doesn't understand symlinks and it doesn't allow far too many special characters in file names.

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Re:Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover by int_19h on Saturday July 29, 2017 @07:14AM (#14880621)
OneDrive for Business used to have something to do with SharePoint (as in, that's where it would sync those files). That would probably account for a lot of problems with it. ;)
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Re:Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover by skinnymuch on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:10PM (#14888119)
Yeah most likely. I use Onedrive a ton (200+ GB), so the normal one still has a few issues that are annoying - primarily some special characters not being allowed, no symlinking, and I don't think it does file history well compared to Drive or Dropbox.
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