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 file is stored incomplete, and the review is where you notice it. Raise the value if your client
works over a slow link. 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 ## 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 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 - `command` hands those files to a converter of your own and exports what it produces - Word
documents with `pandoc`, say. documents with `pandoc`, say.
Whether a Microsoft 365 tenant indexes `.md` files for Copilot is not settled for every tenant. In the one tenant checked so far (10.0.0), Microsoft 365 Copilot found the `.md` files of a
Try a small `markdown` target first; if the tenant does not pick the files up, the same pages go `markdown` target in OneDrive and used them. Tenants differ, so start with a small `markdown`
through a `command` target as a format it does. 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 ## Set it up