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Comment by PKop

2 days ago

> All your multiple PCs have the same Documents folder. Files created on one PC are synced to the cloud and appear in all the other PCs' Documents folders

That sounds horrible.

> Could be good, or bad

It sounds bad either way. If the app exists on both computers there's good chance of conflicting overwrites of whatever is saved there. If the app is not used on a device then it's just a waste of downloading and syncing useless data.

They should just make the computers and have subfolders in a shared documents folder AND prompt you about so this before starting so you can turn off this or that folder before anything gets uploaded or downloaded. It's user-hostile design currently

> That sounds horrible.

This is how Roaming Windows User Profiles work at most companies. I don't understand why you think it sounds horrible.

  • It doesn't matter what I think, and you don't have to understand. Just don't turn it on by default, and if you do, make it safe and easy to turn it off.

    Tooling and workflows that make sense on a centrally-administered domain do not belong on my home computer.