I’ve bought a new Win11 computer because I got tired of fighting the daily creeping obsolesence. Trying to transfer most of my worthwhile data to the new one. First tried Zinstall, which had worked nicely for a couple of previous transfers. It won’t work this time.
Okay, various websites recommend using MS OneDrive to both store and transfer. I’m already paying for Dropbox, but for some reason I was persuaded to try OneDrive.
Jesus! What a stinking pile of useless shit. After I transferred about 7 GB, I returned today to move some more. Suddenly a bunch of files start POPPING UP at the bottom of the list, in the root of OneDrive. These files were inside some ZIPs that I placed in OneDrive a few days ago.
I DID NOT INSTRUCT THE GODDAMN SYSTEM TO START UNZIPPING SHIT AND PLACING IT IN THE ROOT.
I started mass-deleting the unzipped contents, but OneDrive obligingly piled in even more unzipped files faster than I could delete the previous UNWANTED AND UNORDERED unzips.
Maybe there’s a way to stop this bizarre crap, but I don’t need it. Cancelled and deleted the whole thing. Stick with Dropbox, which has its own peculiar limits but at least doesn’t ARBITRARILY DECIDE OF ITS OWN GODDAMN VOLITION to unzip files that I DID NOT INSTRUCT IT TO UNZIP.
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Later and calmer thought… This is one of the few situations where ‘sunk cost’ really is a fallacy. Most of the time you’re better off sticking with a project or version because you’ve put some work into it. Amortizing is nature’s way, and human projects go faster and better when we swing with nature. In this case I wanted to keep using OneDrive because I had spent a day loading files into it, and would have to redo the loading if I switched to Dropbox. OneDrive forced the counter-amortize decision by failing quickly.
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