OneDrive Shared Folder Syncing Has Been Broken for Months, with No Fix in Sight

Re:OneDrive Shared Folder Syncing Has Been Broken for Months... by Gibbon1 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @06:37PM (#43236503)

I have a product idea that I troll my IT friends with.

A set of four thumb drives that sync to each other over their own WiFi network.

The ratio of works super duper to terrifies the IT staff is off the charts.

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Re:OneDrive Shared Folder Syncing Has Been Broken for Months... by Neywiny on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:24PM (#43236878)

Well that wouldn't work because Wi-Fi is the wrong choice. Buuuuuuuut if you gave them cellular data plans? Now you're onto something. The Boron by particle comes to mind as a low cost dev option. The USB should let you talk to a computer as a flash drive, you can throw an SD card on/external to it for storage, and use the modem to sync to the others. As long as they're all on battery, should be fine.

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Re:OneDrive Shared Folder Syncing Has Been Broken for Months... by Spooky23 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:10PM (#43238210)

Why? Generate some sort of peer to peer wlan, join up and sync away.

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Re:OneDrive Shared Folder Syncing Has Been Broken for Months... by Neywiny on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:52AM (#43240868)

Because if you're within Wi-Fi range of each other, just use Wi-Fi to sync. The product would fail to sell

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