Re: How to copy a photo from Windows to iOS without needing Internet servers

On 2025-04-14 03:27, badgolferman wrote:

Alan wrote:
 

On 2025-04-13 05:46, badgolferman wrote:

Chris wrote:
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badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

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Yes, we use Microsoft Intune. They switched over from
MaaS360 which was a  royal pain in the ass. They are also
heavily encouraging us to store ALL  our documents on
OneDrive and Sharepoint rather than locally on the PC. So
far I’ve resisted doing that, but I do keep critical copies
on Sharepoint  for my colleagues to use in case I get hit
by a bus.

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Why not just use sharepoint? It's so much easier for everyone.
The bus  factor is an important consideration for an
organisation.
I have ALL my work files on Sharepoint which makes life easier
for me and  my colleagues. I encourage my team to do the same.
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I often work offline from home or the road and am not always on
the company  LAN. I also don’t want my files to get lost or
locked up by some technical  glitch or hack job. Does that make
sense?

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Not really.
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I too am often away from the office. SharePoint/OneDrive works
fine.  You're more likely to irrecoverably lose local files - to
hardware loss or failure - than using cloud resources.
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Very occasionally there is a sync issue with oneDrive but you can
always go back to a working version due to the in-built history.

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Well, I disagree with you.  Most of my work documents are Excel
files and they just don't translate well to Sharepoint when you
want to work on them.  Keeping backup copies on Sharepoint is one
thing, but leaving my working versions there is something I'm
unwilling to do.

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I'm using Excel with online files all the time and never have a
problem.

 Using a PC bring up an Excel file in Sharepoint.  Select a cell with
text in it.  Press F2 on your keyboard to enable editing within the
cell.  Press Insert on your keyboard to enable typeover of the
characters.  That won't work on Sharepoint, but it works on the PC
application.  I typeover individual characters in cells all the time
and want the original number visible while I'm editing that cell.  It's
cumbersome to use Delete and Backspace keys when the Insert key does
exactly what I want.

When you say "bring up an Excel file in Sharepoint", I think you mean, "open an Excel file on a SharePoint site with the web version of Excel"...
...which isn't what you said you were doing:
"they [Excel files] just don't translate well to Sharepoint when you want to work on them."

 Another annoying thing is text size of the whole file.  It defaults to
100% when I want it at 80%.
 I also have 3-4 spreadsheets open while copying and pasting data back
and forth between them.  I can arrange these windows on my PC where
they are all visible at once and easily Tab from one to another.
Keyboard shortcuts don't work elegantly through a web browser.
 These are just some of the issues with working on Excel files on
Sharepoint.  There are several more and that's why I prefer using the
local version of Microsoft apps rather than the web version.

The only problem is that you aren't "working on [] SharePoint".
Those are all problems using the web version of Excel, which I would happily acknowledge is vastly inferior to the desktop version.
Only you can "work[] on Excel files" that are located on a SharePoint site using the desktop version of the software. No need to "Check out" a file, and then check it back in when you're done, and multiple people can work on a file simultaneously.