The Technology Vent and Rant Thread - Page 78

BetterRed · 10-01-2022, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John F

So I decided to upgrade to Windows 11 and still had the same problem (probably 2 weeks ago). Then a couple of days ago, the problem went away.

And I will not rant about the Windows 11 update.

It probably would have gone away in Win 10 too.

I used to have a problem with deleting files in Downloads - sometimes, they just wouldn't go away, the only way to get rid of them was to boot into Linux.

Touch wood, haven't had the problem for a year or more.

Fortunately my 5 year old 16GB i7-7700 Dell XPS 8920 lacks the wherewithal to run Windows 11

BR

Comfy.n · 10-01-2022, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

It probably would have gone away in Win 10 too.

I used to have a problem with deleting files in Downloads - sometimes, they just wouldn't go away, the only way to get rid of them was to boot into Linux.

Touch wood, haven't had the problem for a year or more.

Fortunately my 5 year old 16GB i7-7700 Dell XPS 8920 lacks the wherewithal to run Windows 11

BR

keeping the same device for FIVE YEARS, how dare you! </despair>

ownedbycats · 10-01-2022, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I used to have a problem with deleting files in Downloads - sometimes, they just wouldn't go away, the only way to get rid of them was to boot into Linux.

I once managed to get a file with an illegal character in the filename. After trying practically everything to get rid of the thing (even using the short DOS name in a command prompt didn't work), I booted up a Linux live CD and was able to rename it.

Hitch · 10-03-2022, 12:31 PM

So...

as of Friday morning, I have 179,000 (yes, one hundred seventy-nine thousand) missing files, from my Dropbox, which contains just over 1M files. The files *cannot* be rewound. They do NOT show up in deleted (on db.com). They do not show up in my Recycle Bin, locally. They can't be restored and the folder cannot be re-added to my dir.

DB is trying to claim that "someone else" owned the folder, which is bollocks. That's simply untrue. I created that folder 10+ years ago; I shared it with 4 of my employees.

On Thursday night, the DB was completely synched, all million+ files.
On Friday morning, when I booted up, I was advised that 179K files were "synching."
Now, we've all done dumb stuff. We've deted folders we didn't mean to; we've moved them with a drag-drop that we didn't mean to do. We've always been able to restore.
Not this time.
When I tried to click the file locations, in the "synching" 179K files, I was repeatedly told that the file 'doesn't exist on this computer."
I finally figured out what directory it is and yip, it's GONE. Totally gone as if it never existed.
On DB.com's site, if I search for "deleted files" at the top level, the folder shows up as gray and "limited." It claims I don't have ACCESS to the fodler, which is also bollocks.
It won't rewind.
It won't restore.
It won't re-add the content to my DB.

NONE of this makes sense. If I deleted the files, they should show up in events or deleted files. Doesn't.

I should be able to restore it or re-add it--won't. Says "We were unable to complete your request."

Meanwhile, a duped folder of this--that I once created using drag-drop, mind you, as a copy, not a plain copy--exists, with all the folders--but wait--all the CONTENT is 100% missing. All the files are GONE, completely.

My employees that have access all swear that they didn't do it and they couldn't kick me off the island, any-damned-way. I've had them all search and look and yadda and NOTHING. it's gone walkabout for them too.

Can DB.com explain it? NO, other than claiming that somehow, magically, it was never my folder in the first place, which is utter
(ლ `Д ́ )ლ

URGHGHGH

Hitch

Hitch · 10-07-2022, 03:11 PM

Nope, nope nope nope nope...

I have NEVER EVER hated a software, SAAS company as much as I hate Dropbox right now. NEVER.

ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Hitch

CRussel · 10-08-2022, 10:20 AM

I hope you get you're DB files back, but it really is time to switch to OneDrive. It's not as if this is the first issue with DB.

Hitch · 10-08-2022, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRussel

I hope you get you're DB files back, but it really is time to switch to OneDrive. It's not as if this is the first issue with DB.

You mean, One Drive for Business that doesn't want me? That says I need to go to Enterprise Sharepoint, that no business my size could humanly afford?

Geeze, Charlie, you think I'm so dim I haven't considered that already? Spent days this past week trying to get them to agree that we're a perfect OD4B user but...

ETA is for Charlie:

Spoiler:

Hitch

Dylrob · 10-08-2022, 01:28 PM

So in the last year I’ve become a cloud developer, working mostly with Amazon cloud services. And oh my god, is it a cluster*! Any semblance of common design language seems to have been abandoned long ago, with difference services using radically different APIs.

DNSB · 10-08-2022, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dylrob

So in the last year I’ve become a cloud developer, working mostly with Amazon cloud services. And oh my god, is it a cluster*! Any semblance of common design language seems to have been abandoned long ago, with difference services using radically different APIs.

With the amount of fun we've had with Azure, AWS and Google, one of Randall Muroe's XKCD comics was overly optimistic.

BetterRed · 10-08-2022, 07:47 PM

I'm still using an FTP service that I started using the late '80s - its not free, it's never lost anything, and I can only recall a couple of outages that mattered to me. The shift from vanilla FTP to SFTP was a nuisance, but relatively painless.

IT went skewwhiff when TPTB started telling their mainstream project managers to adopt skunkworks techniques, closely followed by the script kiddies union telling TPTB that Open Systems standards were an authoritarian construct that stifled competition.

BR

ownedbycats · 10-09-2022, 02:04 PM

Another fun Elder Scrolls: Oblivion glitch I came across.

In a quest where I was helping some vampire hunters kill vampires. Instead of the AI package telling them to kill the vampires, it instead tells them to acquire vampire dust (which is on the vampires, who are hostile).

So if they don't see any vampires, they instead start stealing vampire dust from each other and pissing each other off and then they start fighting. Oops.

gmw · 10-09-2022, 08:05 PM

^ But you got to love a game that so closely reflects reality ... don't you?

ownedbycats · 10-09-2022, 09:33 PM

For a different quest, the quest log pointed me to speak to a specific NPC who had apparently died by getting stuck in a closed doorway. Awkward.

ownedbycats · 10-14-2022, 02:03 PM

In Oblivion, a boss fight where the enemy was supposedly a super powerful necromancer... combat starts, and he pulls out a crappy little dagger and rushes at me.

It was a bit anticlimactic...

Hitch · 10-14-2022, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

In Oblivion, a boss fight where the enemy was supposedly a super powerful necromancer... combat starts, and he pulls out a crappy little dagger and rushes at me.

It was a bit anticlimactic...

LOL, look at the bright side. AT least it wasn't Reacher being played by a Hobbit.

Hitch

10-03-2022, 12:31 PM	#1159
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Dropbox, be grateful I am not a violent person....mostly. So... as of Friday morning, I have 179,000 (yes, one hundred seventy-nine thousand) missing files, from my Dropbox, which contains just over 1M files. The files cannot be rewound. They do NOT show up in deleted (on db.com). They do not show up in my Recycle Bin, locally. They can't be restored and the folder cannot be re-added to my dir. DB is trying to claim that "someone else" owned the folder, which is bollocks. That's simply untrue. I created that folder 10+ years ago; I shared it with 4 of my employees. On Thursday night, the DB was completely synched, all million+ files. On Friday morning, when I booted up, I was advised that 179K files were "synching." Now, we've all done dumb stuff. We've deted folders we didn't mean to; we've moved them with a drag-drop that we didn't mean to do. We've always been able to restore. Not this time. When I tried to click the file locations, in the "synching" 179K files, I was repeatedly told that the file 'doesn't exist on this computer." I finally figured out what directory it is and yip, it's GONE. Totally gone as if it never existed. On DB.com's site, if I search for "deleted files" at the top level, the folder shows up as gray and "limited." It claims I don't have ACCESS to the fodler, which is also bollocks. It won't rewind. It won't restore. It won't re-add the content to my DB. NONE of this makes sense. If I deleted the files, they should show up in events or deleted files. Doesn't. I should be able to restore it or re-add it--won't. Says "We were unable to complete your request." Meanwhile, a duped folder of this--that I once created using drag-drop, mind you, as a copy, not a plain copy--exists, with all the folders--but wait--all the CONTENT is 100% missing. All the files are GONE, completely. My employees that have access all swear that they didn't do it and they couldn't kick me off the island, any-damned-way. I've had them all search and look and yadda and NOTHING. it's gone walkabout for them too. Can DB.com explain it? NO, other than claiming that somehow, magically, it was never my folder in the first place, which is utter (ლ `Д ́ )ლ URGHGHGH Hitch

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10-07-2022, 03:11 PM	#1160
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Nope, nope nope nope nope... I have NEVER EVER hated a software, SAAS company as much as I hate Dropbox right now. NEVER. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Hitch

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CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,296 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	I hope you get you're DB files back, but it really is time to switch to OneDrive. It's not as if this is the first issue with DB.

10-08-2022, 01:28 PM	#1163
Dylrob Murderous Mustela Posts: 10,234 Karma: 48000000 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The other land of schnitzel and beer Device: iPad M1 Pro, Kindle Paperwhite	So in the last year I’ve become a cloud developer, working mostly with Amazon cloud services. And oh my god, is it a cluster*! Any semblance of common design language seems to have been abandoned long ago, with difference services using radically different APIs.

10-08-2022, 07:47 PM	#1165
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,772 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I'm still using an FTP service that I started using the late '80s - its not free, it's never lost anything, and I can only recall a couple of outages that mattered to me. The shift from vanilla FTP to SFTP was a nuisance, but relatively painless. IT went skewwhiff when TPTB started telling their mainstream project managers to adopt skunkworks techniques, closely followed by the script kiddies union telling TPTB that Open Systems standards were an authoritarian construct that stifled competition. BR

10-09-2022, 02:04 PM	#1166
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,038 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Another fun Elder Scrolls: Oblivion glitch I came across. In a quest where I was helping some vampire hunters kill vampires. Instead of the AI package telling them to kill the vampires, it instead tells them to acquire vampire dust (which is on the vampires, who are hostile). So if they don't see any vampires, they instead start stealing vampire dust from each other and pissing each other off and then they start fighting. Oops.

10-09-2022, 08:05 PM	#1167
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10-09-2022, 09:33 PM	#1168
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,038 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	For a different quest, the quest log pointed me to speak to a specific NPC who had apparently died by getting stuck in a closed doorway. Awkward.

10-14-2022, 02:03 PM	#1169
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,038 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	In Oblivion, a boss fight where the enemy was supposedly a super powerful necromancer... combat starts, and he pulls out a crappy little dagger and rushes at me. It was a bit anticlimactic...