Exciting news...just wanted to share my happiness.
Switched to
Ubuntu Linux and I was able to download one and one folder through the web browser. Tried with
rclone first but couldn't get that to work.
If that would have worked the process of downloading would have been much faster. Amazing that just switching system to
Ubuntu Linux and a new big hard dirve, and the problem could be solved. I could have fixed this download problem with Windows as well, but because my Windows 10 partition is to small it would have been more complicated.
Have just extracted one file now, and it seams to work. Will move all my files to an external SSD when my DVD sled/cabinet for HDD arrives, I need to use the Lenovo T410 with 8 Gb ram (not 4 Gb ram), and with the system partition on an SSD to do this, it will be faster.
OneDrive from Microsoft do not have a good solution in how they are doing things, in my option.
In order to download all your data you need a big enough HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid State Drive) in order to download everything. Imagine having 4 TB of data 😳. You can off course switch where the OneDrive is located (switch drive/partition) but that process is so time consuming, and you need two internal drives for this process (if your system drive/partition is to small).
Especially when you "only" have a 100Mbit/100Mbit fibre line into your house. Maybe OneDrive have a upper limit as well, max speed was at ~ 2.5Mb/seconds (but I have an old PC as well), through the web browser.
In my belief OneDrive is only supposed to be for consumers, that have low data storage.
Even if they have solutions for companies, my belief is that everything is to complicated, especially if you need your data somewhere else. I believe the company I work for use Microsofts systems, but I believe they are using their own servers for it.
I don't know everything about that side. I just think OneDrive from Microsoft is not good for consumers if they want to own all their data.
For this reason I have started to move all my data from their servers. I also use OneNote (from Microsoft) a lot, and I need to find away to move all those notes from their servers as well. This was a bigger project then I thought.
The most optimal solution to move the data from OneDrive would be:
So first you need to make every file local on your Windows Machine (download every singel file), then when this is accomplished you need to copy all the files to your local storage solution. Not until this is done, you own your data fully, and have full control of it.
When downloading files/folders through the web browser interface you can max download 2 folders at a time, and sometimes the download do not finnish (if you have really a lot of data in the folders).
I remember this was much easier with Google Drive, why did I even bothered to switch to OneDrive? 🤔
With Goolgle Drive you just requested to download all data, and later you got a link to download it all in one go, without any problems at all.
This have been stressfull for me.
Just wanted to share my thoughts on OneDrive. I do not recommend it at all, to anyone.
Maybe no one care about this post, but this will be a warning to all, be really careful in how you backup your data. Imagine if all data was lost on OneDrive, or your phone just crashing.
I don't think you would have a lot to say about as a consumer to Microsoft if that happened. Why take the risk?
Kind regards brothers, and as I always say. Grow big. 💪
