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)
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@@ -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
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- `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