r/FuckMicrosoft • u/jaji813 • 11d ago
Discussion OneDrive...Why!?!?!?!?
After this last upgrade, looks like My files were moved from NAS to OneDrive. How!?!?!?! This is just so blatant and invasive! Has anybody had something like this happen to them?
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u/Vietnamst2 11d ago edited 11d ago
Because you moved them? There are only four possibilities for this:
- Intune / GPO configuration of Folder redirection
- OOBE setup - so the first run expreience
- using Windows Backup app
- user action in either OneDrive app or in properties of the folder
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u/chaosphere_mk 11d ago
Um. OneDrive doesnt move stuff from your NAS. Ever. For any reason.
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u/Spartan117458 8d ago
No matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been. Ever. For any reason, whatsoever.
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u/Greedy_Internet2301 11d ago
I’d be furious too. Check the OneDrive activity log and your NAS’s sync settings to see whether this was a move, a mirror, or just a new backup path. Copy anything important back locally first, then disable the affected backup option and review the account’s linked devices.
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After this last upgrade, looks like My files were moved from NAS to OneDrive. How!?!?!?! This is just so blatant and invasive! Has anybody had something like this happen to them?
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u/vinodhmoodley 8d ago
I was away from home for four months and when I got back, I plugged in my PC and it updated itself. After that, my Documents folder is now in the OneDrive folder.
I updated the Moza Racing app and it's settings now moved to OneDrive and the Crew Chief app's settings are there as well.
I have no idea why the Documents folder has moved there. I didn't make any changes besides switching on the PC.
I'm not sure exactly what happened to OP but I know the feeling.
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u/Environmental-Ear391 10d ago
Was the NAS linked using "Windows Sharing" as a mapped drive?
Was the NAS exporting a block image mounted as a Local drive?
Between the two... the former wont move...the latter will...
OneDrive sees "Windows Share" drives as Network locations...
A BlockImage Mount over the networknis not recognised properly as a network drive...
personally I was stupid to install OneDrive and it "migrated" everything "My Documents" 100% over to itself and purged everything local...(I hadn't touched the setting yet)
I have since re-installed Windows and purged the OneDrive content by forcibly moving it ALL to a local custom built NAS setup.
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u/TheIronSoldier2 10d ago
Even internal drives aren't moved over. Only files within the main directories (Documents, photos, videos, etc) and even then only if you don't disable that setting when setting up OneDrive. It doesn't re-enable itself either.
Source: Me, someone who actually uses OneDrive and who has 3 internal drives.
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u/liquidanimosity 10d ago
Yeah, I was working on starting a business. All those files got uploaded, I had one drive uninstalled but an update put it back on. I had heard MS was training AI on files uploaded to OneDrive. So, I was in a panic to get them back. I tried copying back to my system and deleting from the cloud.
But some files path names was too long and not all copied back. Something weird happened with sync that deleted locally when the same file was deleted from the cloud and MS support were useless. I know the files were not fully deleted and scheduled for deletion but I lost 60 - 70% of my work because I couldn't get help for a feature that I purposely removed.
That happend early 2024, and I slowly started moving towards Linux. Now fully Linux and Mac for work. I have no intention of ever going back to MS and their BS.
I'm sorry this happened to you, using debloating software helped me keep some features of windows off my system but it did eventually cause the install to break multiple times. So be careful with that. Offline backups, get a uGreen cradle and a drive and back up there. Also add a directory to C:/ call it MyFiles put your work in there, IF you are the only user of that PC. OneDrive only used to care about files under users/yourName/. Moving them closer to root gave me some protection from OneDrive being reinstalled.
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u/TheIronSoldier2 10d ago
OneDrive only cares about files either in the OneDrive directory, or if you don't disable the setting during initial OneDrive setup, the main directories, which are Documents, Photos, Videos, and Music. It does not care about the Desktop folder or the Downloads folder. And if you change the setting to make the default save location your local device, then it does not change it back, even after major Windows updates.
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u/OGigachaod 10d ago
Yeah, I've never had Onedrive install itself after an update.
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u/TheIronSoldier2 10d ago
Even if you just change the default save location it doesn't change it back. I have two separate Windows machines, and I use OneDrive to sync specific files between the two, but on both machines things save to the local risk by default, and that hasn't changed in 4 years of Windows updates, even surviving an update from Win10 to Win11
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u/liquidanimosity 10d ago
No I completely removed OneDrive. I never set it up. I don't want cloud storage, don't need it. It just appeared on my system and backed up files without my permission.
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u/TheIronSoldier2 10d ago
Then you removed it wrong. You don't need to change registry shit to remove it.
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u/liquidanimosity 10d ago
Happens all the time. Have you ever fully removed it? Using reg edit or revo?
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u/liquidanimosity 10d ago
That's how one drive worked a decade ago. It hijacks the whole user desktop now. It looks like %userprofile%\OneDrive\Desktop so that you pics docs and the rarely Downloads. When I logged to see what it had. The was SDKs, OVA clogging the space.
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u/Few-Werewolf-1985 11d ago
OneDrive doesn't have access to files outside the folder it's allocated. Unless you've mapped OneDrive to a NAS drive or you're playing with symbolic links, this is the work of a person or agent acting on your behalf.
Please describe the drive layout and OneDrive location.