Backing up to MS OneDrive

[Bret Busby]

On 06/03/2020, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

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>>The thing is, MS don't support Linux directly, so this kind of stuff
>>is not obviously documented!
>
> True. That's just like using a USB stick to transfer files between
> Windows and GNU/Linux. If you use the wrong file system on the USB
> stick, it won't work. You have to figure that out for yourself, which
> some of us ended up doing the hard way.
>

Just out of interest, I have not, since using Ubuntu, had (for the
most part) any problems in transferring MS Windows formatted USB
drives to Linux, as Ubuntu (for the most part) has been pretty
advanced in this area. I even found that, with the Samsung T5 USB
SSD's, that have the exFAT file formatting, whilst, in other Linux
distributions, drivers for that file format, need to be downloaded and
installed, the drivers for that format, have been natively (?) in
Ubuntu, from even 16.04, if not before (I think, also, in 12.04, but
am not absolutely sure).

The only problems that I have had, in transferring files from Windows
formatted USB drives, applies equally to transferring (including
copying) files generated within Linux, and, that is where file names
include non-alphanumeric characters, including spaces, colons, and
brackets. For example, screenshots, generated in 16.04, include colons
in the timestamped filenames (but, not in 19.10), and, to
copy/transfer them, requires editing of each filename. This may also
apply to uploaded photographic image files, using shotwell, but, I am
not sure.

And, unfortunately, 16.04 appears to be no longer supported (it is
<unknown number> months, since any updates were last available), so,
this problem appears unlikely to be resolved as a patch to the
operating system.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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