Windows 10 Preview on Surface Pro 3

[cliffr39]

do you also have problem installing the firmware update of July?
I get this error:
System Firmware Update - ‎23/‎07/‎2015 - Error 0x80246013

Yep, same error for me on the July firmware.

 

[Nicola]

Yep, same error for me on the July firmware.

Investigating a bit more I see an error related to the audio driver for the docking station (which I do not have and never connected):
Failure Content Install Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80246013: Microsoft - Audio Device - Microsoft Docking Station Audio Device.

 

[wynand32]

do you also have problem installing the firmware update of July?
I get this error:
System Firmware Update - ‎23/‎07/‎2015 - Error 0x80246013

Here too. I guess it's good to know I'm not alone.

 

[GTiceman]

Synctoy is definitely a possibility. I've thought about Robocopy as well, since it's scriptable from the command line, but I understand it doesn't work well in Windows 8.x (and perhaps, therefore, not in 10 either). Perhaps I need to look at a Windows version of RSync, too.

I use SyncToy as a scheduled event and it runs in a hidden cmd window.

 

[Doomofman]

Getting the same error as the rest of you with that firmware update. I do have the dock though if that makes any difference

 

[wynand32]

Investigating a bit more I see an error related to the audio driver for the docking station (which I do not have and never connected):
Failure Content Install Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80246013: Microsoft - Audio Device - Microsoft Docking Station Audio Device.

Yep, lots of stuff in the Event Viewer. Every time the update tries to run, that error is thrown about the audio device.

 

[hughlle]

I'm not sure if this is strictly a message for this forum, but with OneDrive in flux between Windows 8.1 and 10 as it is, I figure I'll give it a try.

I currently have my Documents folder syncing automagically to OneDrive. In general, this works OK. But I would rather use OneDrive as a secondary, not primary, repository of my documents. I've run into some problems with editing documents offline, then having problems syncing and merging properly (though these problems were, in a way at least caused by OneDrive, they were also remedied with OneDrive's unexpectedly useful versioning). I like the cloud, but I don't trust it, and work often enough in places where I have no Internet access that I refuse to put all my eggs in it (no, I would not be a good candidate for a Chromebook).

I'd like to have Documents reside on my local machine in the "old fashioned" way, as if the cloud didn't exist, but have OneDrive or some other application watch that folder and upload changes to OneDrive. There's an excellent sync app for my Android phone (DropSync) that does this with OneDrive, but I'm unaware of something like it for Windows.

Can this be done with junctions or hard links, or a similar mechanism, as done in the past with Dropbox? Or is there other software that syncs to OneDrive, instead of making OneDrive the primary document repository?

One of the many reasons I don't use onedrive

 

[lhauser]

One of the many reasons I don't use onedrive

I was a Dropbox user for a long time. Then my wife bought her Surface Pro 3, along with Office 365 (five license home version) about four months before I got mine, and before I knew it, I had a terabyte of free space. I was dropping $10 a month for that space on Dropbox. It was an easy decision. (I still have several gigs of free space at Dropbox, thanks to my long use and many referrals).

Dropbox sync works pretty much like OneDrive sync, but for a long time I used Linux and hard links worked well. I just want to know that something similar can work for OneDrive in Windows.

 

[ScottyS]

Just got this email from MS...

Anyone have any idea what this says?

 

[wynand32]

I'm not sure if this is strictly a message for this forum, but with OneDrive in flux between Windows 8.1 and 10 as it is, I figure I'll give it a try.

I currently have my Documents folder syncing automagically to OneDrive. In general, this works OK. But I would rather use OneDrive as a secondary, not primary, repository of my documents. I've run into some problems with editing documents offline, then having problems syncing and merging properly (though these problems were, in a way at least caused by OneDrive, they were also remedied with OneDrive's unexpectedly useful versioning). I like the cloud, but I don't trust it, and work often enough in places where I have no Internet access that I refuse to put all my eggs in it (no, I would not be a good candidate for a Chromebook).

I'd like to have Documents reside on my local machine in the "old fashioned" way, as if the cloud didn't exist, but have OneDrive or some other application watch that folder and upload changes to OneDrive. There's an excellent sync app for my Android phone (DropSync) that does this with OneDrive, but I'm unaware of something like it for Windows.

Can this be done with junctions or hard links, or a similar mechanism, as done in the past with Dropbox? Or is there other software that syncs to OneDrive, instead of making OneDrive the primary document repository?

Interesting that you posted this today. I was just going over files in a OneDrive folder, and noticed that it's actually very, very slow at opening and copying/moving files, that that file preview doesn't work for documents stored there. I don't remember things being this slow in previous versions of Windows, but then again I'm not sure I worked with OneDrive all that much prior to Windows 10.

It's so bad, in fact, that I'm thinking seriously about also looking for an alternative. It's a bummer, because it's great in theory to work on essentially the same file on all of my machines, but it's just a serious pain in terms of managing large numbers of files.

One of my least favorite things about Windows 10, actually.

 

[lhauser]

Just got this email from MS...
View attachment 6457

Anyone have any idea what this says?

Perhaps you'll be receiving your official update to Windows 10 sometime between 1930 and 2100 hours on July 31? (sorry, could not resist...)

 

[lhauser]

Interesting that you posted this today. I was just going over files in a OneDrive folder, and noticed that it's actually very, very slow at opening and copying/moving files, that that file preview doesn't work for documents stored there. I don't remember things being this slow in previous versions of Windows, but then again I'm not sure I worked with OneDrive all that much prior to Windows 10.

It's so bad, in fact, that I'm thinking seriously about also looking for an alternative. It's a bummer, because it's great in theory to work on essentially the same file on all of my machines, but it's just a serious pain in terms of managing large numbers of files.

One of my least favorite things about Windows 10, actually.

It was a lot different under Windows 8 and 8.1. It performs fine on my machine, though if you're connected to the Internet, it actually seems to download and open the file from the network, not from a local copy. That's why I want to put my documents where I can load and save locally, but still have some sort of real-time sync to a location OneDrive can look at. The best of both worlds (Or, just the way it worked under 8.1).

Microsoft is supposed to be improving OneDrive again after release, so we'll see.