OneDrive

Since our return from Devon, relations between OneDrive (advertised in the snap above) and my telephone, both from Microsoft, have been poor, and synchronisation between the two has been erratic to say the least. Oddly, sending pictures from the laptop to the telephone has continued to work, while sending pictures from the telephone to the laptop had largely given up. I had been reduced to plugging the telephone into the laptop and moving the pictures, outside of the world of OneDrive, using Windows Explorer. Or perhaps it is called File Explorer these days. The sort of thing one had to put up with maybe ten years ago, in the bad old days.

I did make an effort to reduce the size of the folders involved, some of them running to thousands of files, as the domestic version of Windows does creak a bit with large folders. But this did not seem to have any effect, at least not in the short term.

This morning however, I am pleased to be able to report, that transfer of pictures from telephone to laptop has sprung into life again after being on holiday for around two weeks now. Since, in fact, the fig report at reference 2. Not actually up to date, with most of the pictures from Devon still being missing, but a lot better.

Maybe the Microsoft servers are under strain with all this home working going on. Maybe Google synchronisation is not that clever just presently either. But I am not going to find out about that.

PS 1: I might add that as far as I am concerned, this is a service which I am paying for. Microsoft having been a lot quicker off the blocks when it came to charging than Google, to whom I have only started to pay very modest charges quite recently. I suppose Google have that big cushion of revenue from advertisements during search activity. Much bigger than that from Microsoft's Bing.

PS 2: a few minutes later: nuthatch back on the feeder again this morning, after an absence of a week or so.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/10/big-tractor.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/11/grape-tree-figs.html.