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I want to save to the share drive that looks like a regular folder path.
Is that not how it works? I could have sworn I had it working that way the last time I used it in 2017. Had it rigged up as the location for Da Vinci Resolve database saves and also as a backup location for an Avid project that automatically copied to that folder every day. Wasn't a fan of OneDrive as I had dropbox personally and didn't want another cloud service where I stored all my data as one was probably bad enough, however the production I was working on had no IT infrastructure and no money and the computer we rented for the production for some reason seemed to offer oneDrive for free with the machine. (Maybe it was something to do with the 365 subscription it had?). On that basis since it was already there I used it and it actually ended up saving our asses later on after some other backup procedures didn't end up being followed as they should have and the piece of shit rental machine totally and catastrophically broke. Still haven't used it since, but I was pretty happy with it at the time and was only able to do all that because it was indeed a regular folder location on the machine that happened to sync with the cloud.
OneDrive decided to kick on after an overnight update and uploaded some projects and vst plugins to the cloud. Apparently, the files weren't accessible except via the cloud, so I lost a few hours re-downloading my folders before I could do anything. I don't know if I've ever been more furious over technology that I theoretically owned.
I got a PC in order to eventually go back to Linux, where at least I know that when something goes wrong, it's generally my own fault and somewhat easy to troubleshoot. Unfortunately, the plugins I've been using only have Windows and Mac versions. If I had done a bit more research, I probably would have just gone with an apple device.