[AccessD] New computer, Linux Mint

[jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk]

That is a symptom, I found of installing the OneDrive App
My I7 laptop went into black ( powered-off look) screen for about 20 minutes,
and - after my login, the old desktop ignored all mouse or keyboard input for
several days -
And, on both there was a new \OneDrive\ folder and structure in my \user\ area
- and that contained MFT entries with "live links" to all the files and folders
within the OneDrive stores that  I could access
As in delete the entry from that \user\ folder   and it goes from the OneDrive,
and ... if SYNC'd, it goes from the PC location it was SYNC'd to 

Yes, you get access to an unlink option - but that only shows in the menu after
the entire linking process is completed !

Oh - and I am "co-ordinator" - as in Admin for all the family's OneDrive storage
and that's where their backups, and old data storage is held!

Re the new system -
I would recommend at least 32GB RAM  for Win-11, but you could have an alternate
boot partition, or SSD drive for Windows and Access  SQL server as well,  and
maybe Oracle -
Maybe free copy from Oracle  of the "Personal/developer" version on both Windows
and Linux ?



And 
My description of Linux was - an OS with which there is a huge variety of ways
for the user to cause problems ! 
My description of Windows 10 & 11 is an OS with which there is a huge variety of
ways for the supplier  to cause problems, and more being created for discovery
on any day you have it powered up !

Toolbars - depreciated
Write - long gone 
DEBUG.COM   - well there is the "DOS environment facility - runs win 3.1, 75,
etc... so - 16 and 32 bit apps -

Hey - maybe that will do for Access !

Notepad  using different codepage ( unchangeable default according to windows
version) to my other Apps and tech. 
Wordpad dropping large parts of files when a file gets to about 1GB size 
GODMODE - Na! too easy for users to undo 
MS installed changes.

Shared  external drive - well different bitlocker key on each system.
Low comms connection - come back next month, the system is doing a backup -
upload to the 5GB of space you have with the 64GB Windoze environment.
Oh - and check on the character strings in long, or 8.3 file names, or file
types  that the OneDrive facility won't handle.
Oh! And check the limits to the lengths of full names within OneDrive - not nice
for those with names longer than 35 characters -
As is the File-History - 255 fullname limit to the backup version, and that 255
includes at least 30 characters for the PC, OS and user id's 
So a file with a fullname of more than 225 characters won't be backed up - as
you will find when you look for the not taken, and not reported failure to take
that backup !

 And do remember the shift and right-click on file explorer lists  to get full
fullnames in a list within clippy, and then the ones needing the full
longfilenames access mode shown in blue when the list is pasted into WordPad.

For file handling I use KarenWare DIRPRT, with hash values - and process the
list in excel - match on hash indicated likely actual duplicate file content.

Hope you can get out of the annoyances of supporting users of old versions of
windows, and corporate licences for Office 2000, XP, and 2007 under ...Vista.
As well as users playing coal mine canary with OS and 365 - Pro Plus! With Teams
and corporate/education OneDrive  userid mixes.


And.. Have a better linux life !

 JimB

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<accessd-bounces+jamesbutton=blueyonder.co.uk at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of
John Colby
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2024 1:30 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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Subject: [AccessD] New computer, Linux Mint

My old hp laptop decided to go into an endless circle cursor after (I
think) a windows update.  It was at least 5 years old, an old 4 core AMD
and so I decided that, while I may yet try to recover it, I would buy a new
computer.  I got a Lenovo IdeaPad 16AHP9 which is a pretty modern amd 8
core with 16gb RAM and a 1tb SSD.

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Touchscreen-Graphics-Keyboard-Fingerprint/dp/B0DB5
KJKXL?th=1

which I managed to snag for $660 with a mouse and backpack case.
Unfortunately it comes with Windows 11 which is a non-starter for me,
particularly after the "take a screen capture every few seconds" fiasco.

And so I decided to install Linux Mint.  I have played with Mint over the
years but this time it is a decision to give it a real try as my daily
driver.  It cannot do Access dev obviously but pretty much everything I do
with my machine has been possible.

I have installed Veracrypt, Dropbox, LM Studio with a ton of local LLMs to
play with, all of my music files from my tablet, and of course it comes
with LibreOffice which I have used for quite some time for writing as well
as spreadsheets.  The bluetooth connects flawlessly to my mouse, my
bluetooth speaker as well as my trucker headphones for doing zoom meetings.

Of course this is linux which I am not well versed in so there is a lot of
google to find out how to install things.  But so far I am thoroughly
pleased with Linux Mint as my new daily driver.

-- 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
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