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by zamadatix 5 days ago
Network drives mean no local retention and no real good answer for Windows+Mac+Android+iOS clients to remotely access the files. It also doesn't solve sharing those files externally with granular permissions.

All of these kinds things need protection against data loss and centralized control+management, not just the user folder alone.
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vel0city 5 days ago
> Network drives mean no local retention

Technically speaking, Windows does support client-side caching on network drives. I've used it in the past for a highly limited number of users (read: me, on a personal share) and it works kind of like OneDrive/Dropbox/other cloud platform. But it's really rough and doesn't handle conflicts well.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/web-hosting/configurin...

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seb1204 5 days ago
10 years ago this was not a key requirement. But now it is

Sadly One Drive has pushed out the implementation of proper DMS in some instances.

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vrighter 5 days ago
isn't that also the case witf onedrive because it deletes local copies?
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zamadatix 3 days ago
With OneDrive if you edit a file offline and someone edits a file online AND it's not a file type edit it can attempt to merge (like with Office documents) you end up with "{name}-conflict.{extension}" files rather than deleted local copies. You also get version history of files and the recycle bin of files deleted from the cloud to recover any mistakes from.
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