OneDrive Syncing For PC
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@scottalanmiller said:
ODfP is short for a made up product name, like DBfB. Even if you know what the words stand for it is confusing because it isn't the name of an actual product.
So ... DBB? Or just write it out? I can write it out, but always saw it as acronyms here.
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@BRRABill said:
So ... DBB? Or just write it out? I can write it out, but always saw it as acronyms here.
You've seen DropBox Business initialized here? I've never seen that or OneDrive or nearly anything acronymed. ODfB is a special base because it is written so often and is so long and people so commonly get lazy and shorten it to its competing product name.
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OneDrive for Business has 4 less characters than DropBox Business and it's too long?
I say we are discriminating against DropBox Business and it needs an official acronym.
BTW: do you know how many times I inadvertently wrote "Dropbox FOR Business" in this post by mistake?
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@BRRABill said:
OneDrive for Business has 4 less characters than DropBox Business and it's too long?
Difference is one is talked about every day, the other has come up exactly twice now, both times involving you
No acronym needed because it is never written. ODfB is continuously discussed AND is heavily at risk of being mistaken with its vastly more common cousin. -
AFAIK, DropBox and DropBox Business are differences in the features, not two different products, but not having used them I am not sure. But OneDrive and ODfB are wholly different product lines, families and technologies. Just like Skype and Skype for Business are completely unrelated.
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@scottalanmiller said:
AFAIK, DropBox and DropBox Business are differences in the features, not two different products, but not having used them I am not sure. But OneDrive and ODfB are wholly different product lines, families and technologies. Just like Skype and Skype for Business are completely unrelated.
See I think I still think of them as almost the same, which is probably clouding my thoughts.
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@BRRABill said:
See I think I still think of them as almost the same, which is probably clouding my thoughts.
I know you are, I've been trying to push that they are totally unrelated. One was made by MS, one was made by Groove. One was called SkyDrive then became OneDrive and the other was Groove for Sharepoint. In a marketing move to get people to think of them as similar items because OneDrive had become well known, they named the second one to sound like the first so that people would think it was popular.
Same with MS Communicator. They renamed it to Lync. Everyone hated it. They bought Skype. They owned the rights to the name. They renamed Lync to Skype for Business and suddenly people like it. Magic. Still unrelated products.
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MAGIC!
But at a basic file storing service, OD and ODfB are basically the same, right?
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@BRRABill said:
But at a basic file storing service, OD and ODfB are basically the same, right?
If you mean that they do sync, yes. One is hosted, one is software you buy (but anything you buy can be hosted too.) They use different tools sets.
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@scottalanmiller said:
They use different tools sets.
For now. The beta is no longer using Groove it seems.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
They use different tools sets.
For now. The beta is no longer using Groove it seems.
Right. At some point this is going to change. Same with Skype. But the names were "merged" when the products were not. That's going to make this SO much more confusing down the road.
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@BRRABill said:
@JaredBusch said:
That is just a bug. It shows in some views, but often not in the main Windows Explorer view.
Why would one MS product actually work with another, especially as so infrequently used as Window Explorer? LOL.
And here is an example of what I was talking about.
Note the green checks are not in windows explorer, but show up in the save as view.
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Yeah, I just looked and mine is the same way.
Very strange.
You'd think they could fix that.
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BTW: when trying to figure out why OneDrive was not showing icons in Windows 10, i came across this article. Perhaps it will fix the icon problem people have been having...
