Do not store your active files in Onedrive!
A couple of users have now pointed out a problem with sysadmins redirecting the Windows 'Documents' folder to Microsofts Onedrive cloud storage facility. So the path changes from C:\Users\<username>\Documents to C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive\Documents. For larger businesses the <username> becomes <OrganizationName>.
With this setup all your working documents are being written to and read by the cloud. This might be a good idea for Excel and Word files (though I doubt it) but it does not work with the huge files of CAD and CAE software. As Femdesigner uses the documents/Femprojects folder to store all the Femdesigner inputs and output files (see here) this affects the operation of Femdesigner. In short, it fails to solve. Whether this is due to limitations in file size or just the sheer impracticality of moving large chunks of data in and out of the cloud is unimportant: It doesn't work and we will not be trying to make it work because it would be pointless to do so. Ideally your data is in RAM (fast internal memory), 2nd best is to use a solid-state drive, 3rd best is a standard hard drive, 4th best is a plug-in solid-state hard drive (limited by the computer connection speed). It makes no sense transferring large binary files to/from the net and anyone that does so is not serving their company well because even if it works it slows engineering workflow to a crawl.
There is, of course, a place for cloud-based FEA (particularly for fluid flow solutions) but that is where everything is done on the remote server and all that is passed to/from the client (at most) is basic input and triangle plotting data.
All this is quite apart from the security issues. Despite Microsoft assuring you of their dedication to security on Onedrive, the fact is that the only reason we need anti-virus and malware protection is due to unforeseen vulnerabilities in the core operating systems. So when you get hacked then all Microsoft can really do is work on a patch to fix the problem that allowed the hacker into your system. This will not help in the short term - you will still be screwed from the hack. So aways have a secure backup that is not in the cloud! If in any doubt about potential security issues with Onedrive see this or this. Microsofts willingness to add useful features has caused many issues in the past, such as over-easy access to the registry and running programs from their helpfiles: Things which seem obvious security risks but which they did anyway. Frankly, if any sysadmin in the nuclear or defence industries sent sensitive data to the cloud they would most likely be sacked!
The older fix for this would have been to simply change the Femprojects folder location in the registry. However due to consistent issues of black-flagging by anti-virus software for using the registry, even for simple storage of pathnames, we now completely avoid all calls to the registry.
The reason we use the documents folder is because Microsoft told us to! It is where we can write data without permissions and where files can be unlimited in size whilst not being hidden from the user. There are other locations for storing datafiles but these are usually hidden by default and may also be redirected to the cloud. We have to now create a new folder in a location with permissions which is not hidden then allow the user to move that location just in case. The Femprojects location would then only be an editable redirect to the new location. This new method also has to be backwards-compatible with the older method so users don't have to move their old files. However, this reprogramming won't be done immediately so use the following temporary fix for now...
Temporary fix (to be done by the sysadmin):
If Known Folder Move (KFM) is mandatory for your organisation then add a OneDrive policy to block syncing the
documents/Femprojects subfolder.If flexibility is possible then use classic Folder Redirection GPO for Documents, not OneDrive KFM, and configure documents/
Femprojects as excluded.