I hope this is the right place to ask, I usually prefer finding stuff out on my own but in this case I’m not sure what happened under the hood to cause this.
If somebody is wondering why I’m mentioning rclone and OneDrive, it is because I assume that a failed sync might be a reason for this thing happening?
In the end any software involved in this scenario is famouse/flagship Linux software, so I’m really curious what could’ve cause such a critical error. I’m also, of course, worried that this could happen again if I keep working with the same setup.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What happened (from a user perspective)
- I opened a LibreOffice Calc file that is backuped to OneDrive using rclone
- I changed something
- I saved
- I turned off the machine
- Later I rebooted
- I tried to open the file again
Expected Result:
- The file opens with the contents I had last entered
Actual Result:
- The file opens as an empty text, it did not even open in LibreOffice Calc anymore
- Any contents in the file were wiped, any, like the file was 0KB afterwards
My setup
- Linux Mint 22.1 Xfce
- Uptodate LibreOffice Calc
- OneDrive personal cloud
- rclone (see rclone setup)
Other forums I’ve asked this in
Just for transparency, since I’m not sure who the culprit is I’ve also asked this in the Linux Mint Forum and the rclone Forum.