AutoCAD DWG support for External References (XREF's) and Civil 3D DWG support for Data Shortcuts (XDREF's)

File sharing DWG's in the cloud does not work if the files i share on SharePoint/One Drive all contain broken references that cannot be access, attached or resolved in the cloud location. Cloud storage time sync'd FTP of a single file DWG is NOT Sharing & Collaboration with my CAD users and definitely not my clients.

Note: An external reference can be a drawing file, image, PDF, or one of several other file types. An xref is an external reference that's specifically a DWG file.

There is a problem with file sharing on OneDrive.
I am using a personal one drive and a business one drive (given by the university) at the same time.
After another individual user shared a folder for my two identities, Personal OneDrive could accept the share, but Business OneDrive could not accept the share.
Why does this happen?
If you check the shared email and click the 'Accept' button, you will be prompted to sign in to your OneDrive account. I'm connected to OneDrive for Business with the same ID, but when I click the 'Accept' button in the email requesting to accept sharing, the same error always appears and I cannot accept it.
I hope this problem will be solved in a short time.

File Request feature is fantastic and has been very much needed. Thank you for implementing this feature. However, when I test it out, I noticed that access privilege settings are not as granular as file shares. For example, in deciding who has the privilege to upload the files, I am given the option to copy the link or to email someone the link. The latter doesn't even send a separate email with access code (which happens when you share a file with an email address). I can see the more relaxed approach in requesting for files as those receiving the link does not have the ability to see the content within the folder. However, it would be great to have the options to be more restrictive on who can upload files into my OneDrive folder. What if I share the link (I won't) on my website and someone in the world uploads something suspicious onto my OneDrive folder? Or files that are very large? Or maybe I want to have a log of who contributed what?

We are currently using Google Drive and DropBox to share files on our devices. We have Office 365, so we thought we would try OneDrive, but the two reasons it will never work are:

1. File/Folder Limits are too low


2. SharePoint integration

Google Drive is so much easier to setup, you don't have to deal with something complex like SharePoint for something so simple, and you aren't handcuffed by file/folder limitations.

As it currently stands, OneDrive is worse than worthless - we wasted our time even trying it out.

It also seems the sync client is not nearly as good as Google Drive or DropBox.

OneDrive seems to be in perpetual beta. It's definitely not built with businesses in mind.

Password Protected Objects in OneDrive should have protection extended to when that object is viewed in Windows File Explorer. Presently, as of 11/14/2019, it is the design of OneDrive to allow Password Protection on Shared folders. As long as the shared & protected object is viewed in a browser then a password prompt secures the object. However, if that object is Added To My OneDrive (aka viewable within Windows 10 File Explorer) then the password prompt goes away while access to the content remains. This is a security flaw in my opinion and not a feature. Microsoft support confirmed that this is an accurate description.

Referring ticket # 17174503

"When two or more people are working on a document at the same time, they might make changes that conflict with each other. Conflicts can occur when one person works offline and then saves the document to the server. Conflicts can also occur when two people work on the same part of a document at exactly the same time. When edits conflict, the file would display a notification the next time that a user tries to save the document. The conflicts must be resolved before you can save the document to the cloud.
In OneDrive sync client (OneDrive.exe), when a lot of users have synced a library, the sync is happening on all these machines at various times. Now, when there are any changes made in a file which is inside a folder, the sync client will not only sync these files but check for changes in all other files in the folder. During this time the OneDrive is in 'processing state'. Since there are multiple users syncing the same library, there is a high probability that there are other users on whose machine the same folder or file is getting synced. Whenever sync is happening for a specific file, the file remains in locked state, irrespective of whether you have made changes on the file or not. The sync client just sees that a file is being synced and in order to prevent a conflict it puts the file in locked state. During the same time, if another user syncs the same folder and files under it (which is happening in this case), it will show the above error, asking the user to merge or create a new file. This is how the sync client works and it is to prevent two people syncing the same file with different changes."
--> the larger the ‘collaboration’ the larger the chance of synchronization issues. Definitely not the quality I would expect from a Microsoft product, expecially not one that is presented as the best in team collaboration.

Workaround --> work in the online environment…
Is work being performed on a root-cause fix?
Another workaround would be to put as few as possible document in a folder to prevent the risk of synchronization errors when two users are viewing a document in the same folder…

Could you add a feature request for an ‘open read-only’ button?
I often only want to read something in a document, and based on your explanation if that’s a word document and I open it, it will trigger a synchronization check on that document as well as on all the other documents in the folder leading to the issues as reported, when another user might also be viewing a document in that directory.

Feature request would be to either: ensure that documents cannot be authored at the same time in cloud and in oneDrive (prevent synchronization issue), or at least allow an 'read-only' button, so that only reading a document will not result in a 'lock'.