Do not use OneDrive to store VMs - WARNING

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According to my experience the combination Workstation VMs + NTFS + OneDrive is highly toxic.
The probability of damaged VMDKs is significantly higher when OneDrive is used.
As far as I know this is not mentioned in the documentation - which can only be seen as a careless oversight.
If we know that something is dangerous - we should  warn users ....

Do not consider storing VMs on partitions synced with OneDrive - you have been warned ....

Suggestion: prevent VMs from being stored on OneDrive synced disks

Ulli

[scott28tt]

This might be better posted in the “documents” areas for Player and Pro, in the navigation pane to the right of this page: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation/ct-p/3019-home

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The Documents section for Workstation and VMplayer are linked to quite obscure collections of links to Knowledgebase articles.
That location would be fine to hide posts - which is not what I had in mind.

Ulli

[scott28tt]

But they are a permanent archive where entries don’t quickly disappear down the page, which is what will happen with this thread I expect.

It was just a suggestion…

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Hi Scott
I was not aware of the design-change.
Last time I looked the documents sections for each area were not linked to the knowlege-base.

More effective would be to send such posts to the product managers and documentation managers

Ulli

[scott28tt]

@Mikero 

A kb article?