#ONEDRIVE DOWNLOAD DOC UPDATE#

My recent one-on-one with OneDrive just added another hour to that tally. I wonder what staggering number of labor hours have been wasted over the years by Microsoft’s blatant disregard for the user experience.

#ONEDRIVE DOWNLOAD DOC UPDATE#

If enough users complain, a subsequent update brings the feature back - like the Start Button in Windows 8.1.Įverything about Microsoft’s development strategy is wrong! Users are forced to fumble around until they figure out where some useful toolbar or button has been moved to. Each UI update imposes changes that developers decide are better.

A human-centered design is a design that begins from the standpoint of the user experience. Microsoft developers continue to make the same mistake every time they update an interface - they ignore what users actually do. At this point, you can use simple Windows file-management steps to copy or drag-and-drop the OneDrive files to a local folder on your computer. In the lower left of the new OneDrive interface, find and click the link to “ Return to classic OneDrive.” Seriously, I had no idea I had ever left classic view.Īfter a moment, you’ll get an Explorer window showing you the folder and file content of the shared OneDrive folder.Here’s what you have to do to download more than one file at a time on OneDrive: And you won’t believe how embedded this simple option was! The Solution Somehow, I managed to back into the solution. The prospect of downloading over 200 files individually - ONE … AT … A … TIME - was daunting and unacceptable. Even Googling the problem, however, didn’t help in this case. Why? If Microsoft can imagine that I would want to download one of the shared files, is it inconceivable that I might want to download more than one file? At the same time? But when I selected more than one file, that nifty little option disappeared. I could select one file and get a download link along the top. I checked every icon and link and right-button context menu in vein for an option that would allow me to select all files and download them in one efficient click. Once in, however, my own progress came to a screeching halt. Fortunately, I already have a account, so I used that. She didn’t want to have to create yet another online account, and who can blame her? We already have far too many online logins to manage, and those are for the accounts we actually want.

Before I could even start, I had to log in or create a Microsoft account. Recently, I had to grab files for a client via a link to a shared OneDrive folder. In its new OneDrive interface, Microsoft has managed to leave out the only useful way to download all the files in a shared OneDrive folder.

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