Goodbye Microsoft OneDrive
I was an early adopter of MS OneDrive and never had any concern with it. Until a few days ago.
It was the first time I needed to download a folder containing files, since I did not have OneDrive synchronised with the machine's storage; it's not my main machine.
And OneDrive had NO option to download a folder as-is when connecting to it via the browser (nor through the app – which I installed to check).
OneDrive would always try to compress the folder into a zip format while downloading. There was no other alternative aside from downloading the file one at a time.
Even on very high broadband speed, the effective download time amounted to 120'something kb/s. This translated to hours for my download.
And nearing the end of the download, it FAILED and I had to redo it. To avoid another fail, I ended up downloading in pieces.
Oddly enough, if using the OneDrive Windows app, it will queue up the downloads, i.e. ONLY one download at a time. It cannot do something as simple as simultaneous downloads. Seriously. Doing it from the browser, it acts like typical browser download, except for the really slow zipping while downloading part.
My take on this is that I cannot rely on Microsoft OneDrive to be my online storage. Goodbye OneDrive.