When Windows users suddenly discover that their files have vanished from their desktops after interacting with OneDrive, the issue often stems from how Microsoft’s cloud service integrates with the operating system. The automatic, near-invisible shift to cloud-based storage has triggered strong reactions from users who find the feature unintuitive and, in some cases, destructive to their local files.
Garbage article, but I think what they are saying is if you don’t restore your files from backup before you disable your onedrive backup, then you lose your files.
This sounds like user error.
If the people in question were choosing to use OneDrive in the first place, I might agree with you. Since MS is forcing this crap on everyone it’s their fault when people lose data to it.
Last time I set up a user account onedrive was not forced. It’s suggested and you had to click a few buttons to turn it on.
I wonder if other apps that do cloud offload work in the same way: disable service and you lose cloud-sync’d content unless you downloaded it ahead of time.
I’m also curious if onedrive prompts you to save/downlod your data first.
When I went to save a file on my work laptop, it always tried to default to ScumDrive. I had to tell it to save it locally.
That data isn’t the problem. It’s the backed up folders that’s the problem.
My sister’s brand new Windows 11 laptop came with the user data folders replaced by OneDrive and I very seriously doubt she did that intentionally.
During user profile creation she accepted that option.
She doesn’t know what she accepted man, that’s the fucking point. I doubt it asked her “Would you like to mirror all your personal files to MS servers, run the risk of data loss, and pay us a yearly subscription if you have more than 2GB(or whatever their cap is) of photos/documents?”.
Shouldn’t know how to cancel/disable onedrive either then and doesn’t need to worry about this fear mongering article.
She doesn’t, no. But who do you think she’s going to ask about it when the popup tells her she needs to pay out to store more files? What do you think i would have told her to do before reading this article?
Confusing and bad UI/UX is… confusing and bad.
We’re all glad you’re a poweruser, anyway, can we maybe have an operating system that doesn’t actively hate and fight the user?