Onedrive Rule

My God I hate this. My wife will tell me she’s confused and can’t find any of her documents, and lo and behold the Microsoft somehow enabled OneDrive and either replaced everything on the computer with her account, or moved everything from the computer to God knows where.

Does it help to disable onedrive at startup?
- I’ve seen it get turned on all by itself after a feature update. Maybe it can help.
  This is her business computer so it needs to be Windows sadly.
OneDrive is pretty simple and usually replaces the original save locations with ones also backed up online.

Do I look like I know what a OneDrive is?

I uninstall One Drive, and every other Microsoft product that they will let me uninstall, as part of my Windows install process. Then I disable anything else that I can. Microsoft is doing everything it can think of to convince me to finally make the switch to Linux.

Do it. Earlier this year I was exactly at the point you are now, coming from using Microsoft since MS DOS days. I'm glad I did the switch and haven't looked back since. It was far easier than I thought it would be. If you know how to uninstall Microsoft bloat you can easily learn to use Linux.
- I'm not sure that all of the tools that I use will run in Linux. I'm using Visual Studio to write Great Cow BASIC. I'll probably give it a try and see what happens. I have several pieces of software that are quite old (AutoCAD 2001, PhotoShop CS4, etc) that I keep around because they aren't the new subscription based everything you produce is ours bullshit. I guess I could run windows in a VM to run those.
Do it bro, I switched 5 years ago after being too fed up with windows, and I've never looked back
- I have run Linux on servers and I even have one machine running Linux as a workstation but I'm very confortable in Windows. I've been with Microsoft since the MS-DOS 3 days.

"Windows, stop syncing my damn files to OneDrive."

"Copy that, no more syncing. Just give us a moment to delete the unnecessary copies."

"Great."

"Ok, all done. All the local data is gone and now only the OneDrive backup exists."

"Wait no stop"

Oh yeah, I remember how it bitched I didn't have enough room because it was trying to clone my fucking documents folder without being asked.

And heaven forbid actually using it. I stored work files on a paid account and it cloned it locally on my laptop nearly killing my 500gb hard drive I the process. Again, unprompted. It's such a garbage system.

I uninstalled this crap the moment I saw it appear in Windows Explorer. I never knew it was that bad. It was the rule back when I was still using Windows. Whatever Windows Update installed without my consent, it got deleted immediately.

Do I look like I know what a cloud is?!

That's my data! I don't know you!
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"Your OneDrive is now full..."

Thanks, Microsoft, how about you use my 1TB SSD instead.

"What website do I go to to kick your ass?"

[]https://distrowatch.com

You know, I almost forgot how bad of a company Microsoft has become.

Thanks for the reminder.

Bruh, wdym "has become"? MS was wild in the 90s.
- It's gone from overt to insidious.

protip: when set to "all files available offline" it does both. you're welcome.

When I was setting up my new computer late last year, OneDrive wanted to sync everything in my user folders to OneDrive. No idea why. I knew it'd never fit everything anyway. To get it to stop, I had to create a brand new user account without a Microsoft account attached, move everything over to the new account, and delete the old account.

Now, I only have OneDrive sync my college stuff (homework, projects, notes, PowerPoints, etc.). Nothing else syncs to OneDrive. I backup my PC using a program called Backblaze instead.

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Can someone link that link?

IIRC, there is a setting to just make it open an Explorer window every time and skip all the crap. I'm on my phone, so I don't want to look for it rn, but it's only a few clicks.

(It might just skip the OneDrive step; I don't have documents this way often, so I can't recall off the top of my head.)

Ironically, I just passed Explorer to save to a OneDrive folder, but it's faster and easier to get to the right spot with a classic Explorer "save as" window.