From f2f251ff9076769dbd33aefdb7ee1bb26f2f3215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Torben Nehmer Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:51:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: collect how-to records what OneDrive on Windows does to a phone upload (online-only placeholder, original times kept, so settle_seconds does not hold it back), export how-to says a tenant found and used the .md files (#213 E3, #214 F1) Files changed: - docs/how-to/collect-from-a-synced-folder.md - docs/how-to/export-to-a-synced-folder.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SnAJ7Z3CpVD3PRbN73QtU2 --- docs/how-to/collect-from-a-synced-folder.md | 7 +++++++ docs/how-to/export-to-a-synced-folder.md | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/how-to/collect-from-a-synced-folder.md b/docs/how-to/collect-from-a-synced-folder.md index b1343a5..8ca834e 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/collect-from-a-synced-folder.md +++ b/docs/how-to/collect-from-a-synced-folder.md @@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ a client that pauses for longer than the interval in the middle of a file and th file is stored incomplete, and the review is where you notice it. Raise the value if your client works over a slow link. +OneDrive on Windows, checked with 10.0.0: a file uploaded from a phone shows up in the folder as an +online-only placeholder (attributes `Archive, ReparsePoint`) that keeps its original creation and +modification times - a week old in the check, not the time it arrived. So `settle_seconds` does not +hold such a file back; reading it, which `collect` does, downloads it, and the size-and-sha256 +check is what guards the copy. The copy in the quarantine carries the time of the collect, not the +original one. + ## Deleting in a synced folder deletes everywhere A file removed from a folder that OneDrive syncs is removed on every device that syncs it. That is diff --git a/docs/how-to/export-to-a-synced-folder.md b/docs/how-to/export-to-a-synced-folder.md index 70260fe..92edf34 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/export-to-a-synced-folder.md +++ b/docs/how-to/export-to-a-synced-folder.md @@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ look like: [configuration reference](../reference/configuration.md#export-to-a-f - `command` hands those files to a converter of your own and exports what it produces - Word documents with `pandoc`, say. - Whether a Microsoft 365 tenant indexes `.md` files for Copilot is not settled for every tenant. - Try a small `markdown` target first; if the tenant does not pick the files up, the same pages go - through a `command` target as a format it does. + In the one tenant checked so far (10.0.0), Microsoft 365 Copilot found the `.md` files of a + `markdown` target in OneDrive and used them. Tenants differ, so start with a small `markdown` + target; if yours does not pick the files up, the same pages go through a `command` target as a + format it does. ## Set it up