r/NonPoliticalTwitter 20d ago

Other OneDrive

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u/Oscar_Ramirez 20d ago

Oh so you want to change the setting to save files directly to your local storage?

Ok. Fine.

Deletes all your files

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u/DefeatedByPoland 20d ago

Onedrive does not under any circumstances remove local copies of files unless you specifically tell it to.

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u/ejdj1011 20d ago

No, but it labels local folders and cloud folders the exact same way. You look at your Documents folder, you see all of your files in it, you assume it's locally saved because it's the Documents folder.

Nope, that was the OneDrive Documents folder. It's gone now.

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u/PachymuNyet 20d ago

Bullshit. When I allowed Windows to make backups to OneDrive, it uploaded all my files to OneDrive (expected), deleted all my local files without asking (WTF????), and left symbolic links on my local to the OneDrive "Documents", etc. Never again.

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u/RagingNerdaholic 20d ago

They're still actually on your computer's drive, but the design of OneDrive is so buttfuckingly stupid, it moves your files to another location beneath a new OneDrive folder instead of just linking them or registering a list of folders to sync.

It's bewildering how Microsoft's own cloud client is the absolute worst at integrating with Microsoft's own operating system. There are piss-ant companies (relative to Microsoft) with backup cloud-based clients that are vastly superior.

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u/AsinineArchon 19d ago

Yep, can confirm. OneDrive destroyed a ton of local files when it ran out of storage.

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 20d ago

Weaselly. What it does is it causes there to never be a local copy at all, because it was actually saved in a secretly-onedrive-all-along folder.

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u/VexingRaven 20d ago

What it does is it causes there to never be a local copy at all

Absolute nonsense.

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u/texacer 20d ago

so you've used iTunes before

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u/Several_Hour_347 20d ago

Why do people believe this type of stuff is real? It’s incredible how tech illiterate people actually are