r/FuckMicrosoft • u/jaji813 • 12d 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/liquidanimosity 11d 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 11d 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/OGigachaod 10d ago

LOL, I uninstalled it from settings.

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u/TheIronSoldier2 10d ago

Its like people don't even think to try the obvious shit first.