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Better sync conflict resolution
The current solution is making a copy. If device b or the web is used with the same files as device a has not yet finished syncing - e.g. think about last played property update of audio files - then this is going to result in a conflict. I have ran into this myself while moving directory trees and updating photo file properties. The work to clean up duplicates is tremendous. Another ******************* forum shows I am not the only one frustrated by this. I feel it would be nice if we would have OneDrive and device file systems to…
90 votes -
IFTTT triggers for OneDrive
Add triggers for OneDrive's IFTTT channel.
Beside being one of the few online storage channels that do not have any kind of trigger, this would make it useful.
90 votes -
Manual "Sync Now" Button
Add a button on local OneDrive devices (Windows, Mac, Android, etc.) that allows users to force-sync OneDrive immediately instead of waiting for the cloud to auto-sync hours later.
90 votes -
Please stop automatically creating folders (like attachments, pictures, documents) in my OneDrive.
It is so annoying, every time i delete the folders, it pops up again. If i need a folder, i will make it myself. This is the only thing that keeps me from making OneDrive my top cloud storage solution.
84 votes -
OCR function for PDF
The whole OCR function for PDFs would be great. In that case I would definitely work directly within OneDrive.
81 votes -
Support for embedding video
Now we can embed on website/blog our documents, presentation, txt file, photos, exe file (!)... but we CAN'T embed our own video!
I think, that is not a technical problem, but fear before pirating films - ofcourse, it is important, but lock a embeding function is not a good way to fight with pirats.
Please, add option to embedding our own video.
80 votes -
Allow the sync client to store files on network drives
This was already posted (http://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/6329917-update-onedrive-for-business-to-sync-with-a-netw?page=1&per_page=20) and 241 people voted for it, but the deadly "Declined" status make the idea ineligible for support from the community, even though two pages of comments suggest there is a need for this feature. The fact is, businesses (including education organizations) have limited local storage and users that roam all over campus. We can't even use the sync client if it only stores files locally.
In addition, MS has not just opted to not develop this option, it's actively disabled some of the "creative" ideas people suggested to make this work. That's frustrating.
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78 votes -
Possibility to customise the invitation mail with my company brand and send the invitation mail from my company mail account.
Customers need to brand the Invitation mail with logos...
e.g. a bank could not send inviations from/with microsoft logos and from a microsoft mail address.The mail should be branded with customer-logos and sent from a customer mail address.
77 votes -
Allow others to edit or collaborate on shared albums
I would love to be able to create shared photo albums that can be co-owned as opposed to simply shared. It would be nice to be able to give permissions to someone else so they can share their photos to the album as well.
An example of this is the following. When I was recently in Europe with my girlfriend, we both took lots of photos with our phones and they were uploaded to our respective onedrive folders. Now it would be nice to be able to create an album (not a shared folder) of the trip where we can…
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75 votes
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make it possible to completely uninstall onedrive.
Microsoft should make a patch that enables the customer to completely uninstall onedrive. Any software should be available to those who want it, or want to pay for it. But forcing it upon customers is unacceptable and undemocratic. Please discuss?
75 votes -
Add ability to sync Office templates through OneDrive
Allows office document templates sync through onedrive
74 votes -
Add support for online playback of Sony AVCHD (.MTS) video format.
Currently Sony AVCHD (.mts) video files will not play in onedrive. Many of my home videos are shot in this format. Sony's cameras are somewhat popular and I think this format should be supported.
72 votes -
Make OneDrive WebDAV network drive an option when setting up OneDrive.
Make OneDrive WebDAV network drive an option when setting up OneDrive.
1. Sync Everything (For laptops and desktops with plenty of storage)
2. Selective Sync (For laptops and tablets that are offline often)
3. Map Network Drive (For desktops and devices that are always online)71 votes -
Sort photos in Albums
Please...please...please... Add the option to sort photos in an album e.g. Date/reverse dare / name, etc...
I don't suppose anyone will ever read this or take any notice?
Thanks anyway, in hope..
67 votes -
Folder offline
Instead of selecting each individual files within a folder for offline use how about the possibility of selecting an entire folder?
65 votes -
Filenames with a dot [.] symbol prefix
Consider enabling OneDrive to accept files beginning with a dot/period [.] I don't make them myself, but I have one or two applications that do. I have tried repeatedly to upload them, but OneDrive says “OneDrive file names can't start or end with '.' (dot) symbol”. It does however, accept folders that begin with a dot symbol [?] Windows Explorer has handled both quite happily ever since the old file naming conventions were relaxed..
61 votes -
OneDrive Peer-to-Peer / Mesh Sync
From an architectural point of view, I really see OneDrive on top of a P2P foundation (BitTorrent Sync, Live Mesh, ....).
This will bring an answer to so many requests in this channel, like Syncing over LAN, or differential/delta Syncing, ....
This would also provide a foundation for managing very large files and a potential integration with Azure Backup / Disaster Recevory services.
A real eco-system of services could be built on top of that.
It is also perfectly compatible with the idea of P2P + Cloud where the OneDrive storage as we know today is a node among others.
61 votes -
Can't have an underscore in file name any more
The latest client does NOT allow a file or folder name with an underscore. That's garbage. I have hundreds if not thousands of these file names. You must support ALL characters supported by NTFS. I have no problems with file names on DropBox or Google Drive and had no problems with filename or foldername in the Office 2013 build of ODB.
60 votes -
Ideas -- facial recognition / geo sort by
Have the ability to filter/sort photos by geo location stored in photo or manually enter into an album.
Facial recognition and sorting by ability.
60 votes