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u/galactuskev May 20 '25
I love that one drive just starts randomly backing up files and then tells you are out of space. It's like dude, I don't even want the files you backed up
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u/looshagbrolly May 20 '25
One drive ate my photos and I can't locate them at all
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u/danielroxheaps May 20 '25
Was having issues with a game and turned off OneDrive (common fix). Went into the Documents folder: empty. Turned OneDrive back on, it’s all back there. Fixed it in the end (OneDrive was the issue with the game) but it’s so annoying when it does things you DON’T ask for it to do.
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u/SillySin May 20 '25
What it did is take over the documents directory so your game wasn't finding the files it needed from old directory, it happened to me, i had to delete one drive in multiple ways and made sure my old documents folder copy on the side to move it back, in the process one drive decided to delete my files in cloud too, I guess good riddance.
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u/Theboulder027 May 20 '25
This reminds me I haven't backed up my files to an external hard drive in a while.
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u/TurdQuadratic May 20 '25
Look for a OneDrive folder in the c:\users%username% folder or go to OneDrive on the web and sign in with the email you used to set up windows, and browse the folders that way
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u/SeniorShanty May 20 '25
I deleted stuff on OneDrive and it deleted stuff off of my hard drive. WTF!
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u/TraditionalEnergy919 May 20 '25
My phone did this and I can’t be bothered to pay for more storage.
Yay… it backed up the backups… great job…
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u/Aleashed May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25
When you setup a new computer offline and remove OneDrive, then connect to the internet, first thing Windows does is assume my brand forgot to bless me with OneDrive and it reinstalls it for me so I don’t miss out on it. Then I have to uninstall it again. Then windows finds a new version of windows which is treated as an Upgrade rather than an Update. Guess what comes preinstalled in the new Windows: OneDrive.
As annoying as this is, multiply that by 10-20 because nearly every other built-in program from Microsoft also behaves like malware and constantly reinstalls itself…
If you use W11 and care about your data, TURN OFF StorageSense for the love of… it “auto-deletes” what it thinks it’s not important
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u/ParkedOrPar May 20 '25
You aren't even human anymore, you are data.
Data for sale.
It's over.
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u/MrPringles9 May 20 '25
I mean... No one is forcing you to use Windows. There are alternatives actually!
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u/Copperhead0122 May 20 '25
I'm probably gonna be one of millions making the switch to Linux come October
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u/thearsonistduck May 20 '25
I'm working on doing it right now actually just got to get a drive for my Linux Incase my I decided I don't like the version or for what ever reason decided to go back to windows
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u/Angry_Murlocs May 20 '25
Ok might be out of touch but what’s happening to Windows in October?
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u/elcheapodeluxe May 20 '25
I already moved one older laptop over. Going surprisingly smoothly - but it did turn the battery life to shit. Also it means I'm stuck with new (aka web) outlook.
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u/prezcat May 20 '25
I rage quit Windows late last year -- and I'm LOVING it. I've got everything set up now how I like it and I feel like I actually control my machine. (Windows would frequently re-install shit that I un-installed. Like word. or excel. or copilot.)
I use a Fedora/KDE spin. Highly recommend.
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u/Asquirrelinspace May 20 '25
Most users don't have the time or energy to convert to Linux, or even know it exists for that matter
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u/tehtris May 20 '25
It took me like 5 years of "HEY, USE ONEDRIVE PLZ" for me to be like "alright. I'm out"
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u/Matuzka May 20 '25
Probably one of the most annoying things what always pops up, I hate it and I don't want my stuff to be tied with OneDrive, there are far more better alternatives, imo.
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u/Representative-Owl26 May 20 '25
Oh my god, don't even get me started. My company policy makes it so that my desktop is in one drive. Can't change that. Why? What were they smoking?
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u/Jeynarl May 20 '25
In a similar boat as you w/ my work. My least favorite part of using MS office products is when I do save-as functions on files I’m working, oftentimes the dumbe onedrive thing will duplicate files with my PC name added to the end for no good reason. So like a save-as will end up with 3 files sometimes. Drives me nuts
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u/Am_Sterben May 20 '25
They have to take a possible Hardware error in account and A LOT of people safe files on the Desktop.
OneDrive is a great way to secure these files for not much money as it is integrated in the M365 licences which your company most likely will be using.
If the computer decides to retire permantly, the whining is massive of said people.
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u/CyberRax May 20 '25
You solve this by making it company policy that documents are to be saved into Documents (which you've set to be under OneDrive) and making blatantly clear that Desktop is something that will be replaced in case there are hardware issues.
If you want to be really protected, have a simple batch file copy modified files to the backup drive during shutdown (and make it company policy that computers are to be shut down at the end of the day).
This way corrupted/locked files on OneDrive don't get carried into PCs (new macro in your Excel spreadheet gets flagged as "suspicious"? good luck using that copy which is on your harddrive), people can keep working the way they like, and if you ever for some reason need to turn off OneDrive you won't find stuff on your Desktop replaced with "Where are my files" icon.
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u/mr_potatoface May 20 '25
You solve this by making it company policy that documents are to be saved into Documents (which you've set to be under OneDrive) and making blatantly clear that Desktop is something that will be replaced in case there are hardware issues.
You must not understand people, lol. You can force them to acknowledge this every time they log in to their computer and every 30 minutes afterward, along with floating text that says not to store documents on the desktop. Yet after 1 week, a high level manager will have a major technical issue because they spilled beer on their computer and manage to lose an entire folder full of critical information, then you'll get in trouble for not properly warning users and protecting company data because you should have anticipated this scenario.
Onedrive is inconvenient to everyone, but it protects from dumbness and also good intentioned people that just forgot.
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u/AnorexicLlama28 May 20 '25
Because when you do an oopsie and then scream at IT for why the document you work from every day and desperately need (but isn’t in a shared location) is missing; we have a way to get that back for you.
Or do you genuinely just think you know better than those who do this shit for a living?
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u/Representative-Owl26 May 20 '25
I am a fucking developer. I do know better, goddamn. Making a shortcut on the desktop and not being allowed to delete it is more annoying though.
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May 20 '25
Uh, I really don't believe this. I work in IT, and the software developers are some of the least competent and most confident people I have to service.
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u/chewymammoth May 20 '25
The other day my buddy who's a pretty smart software engineer sent me his IP to join his Minecraft server. It was a 192.168.X.X IP. It took me several tries to explain why that wasn't gonna work lol.
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Holy shit, the amount of stupid ass replies you’re getting from people…
I have to remind myself that a large portion of Reddit is younger people not in the workforce.
Someone said “if yOu mAkE me use onEdRivE, I kNoW beTTeR tHan yOu.”
The sheer IT ignorance in this thread is astounding.
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u/MrPlace May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25
As somebody responsible for IT and people shittily handling their own PC's, its a guaranteed company managed backup. So when somebodies shit computer breaks, they do not lose everything they had on their computer.
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u/smor729 May 20 '25
My company just had a hack and every file on everyone's desktop was corrupted and non recoverable. We lost tons and tons of data. It was very expensive. That's why.
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u/bulbous-bulbasaur May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25
Because i just replaced a laptop for someone who thought he didnt need OneDrive so he signed out of it and never used it.
He spilled coffee on his old laptop and now there's no way for me to recover his important files womp, womp
Idc what title, dept, experience, i dont trust any end user with their files. You can store stuff outside of OneDrive if you're that upset over it lol work around the company policy if you're so bold, just dont cry when god forbid your SSD craps out for any number of reasons and you no longer have your work.
IT doesn't do these things just to piss you off. IT does these things to guard against mistakes/mishaps/accidents etc
Edit: i misrepresented the situation - the data might be recoverable, im just not spending time to try when im already overworked and understaffed
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u/FacelessMage117 CHAINPOSTER May 20 '25
I had a m365 sub for my last job as it was a must to have things in one drive. I canceled my sub after leaving there, and one drive was “too full” and locked down my personal email account
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why would you use a personal email account for work? that's on you
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u/FacelessMage117 CHAINPOSTER May 20 '25
It wasn’t a personal email for work, it was my personal PC, but the m365 was tied to my pc, and documents and whatnot got stored onto OneDrive by default. I only needed the subscription so I could have office apps for work documents and stuff
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u/mrk240 May 21 '25
My wife uses my laptop and allowed Onedrive to back up like 500gb of of photos and other shit without me knowing.
Guess what happened when I cancelled my 365 subscription?
Took me nearly a month back up and deleting everything from Onedrive.
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u/PraiseThePun420 May 20 '25
For personal use? Fuck OneDrive. Don't want, don't force, take it back
For business/company use? Yup. Its optimal when your device breaks down, easy to swap and start working again
Don't like it but it is what it is.
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I don't mind it either. Once you bite the bullet and switch, it's fine. I get all my files on any work PC. it's great.
What's not okay is when my 70 year old dad accidentally does it while on the free plan. And instantly runs out of space.
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u/wutchamafuckit May 20 '25
I absolutely love it for my business. I've got 4 of us on it and it's wonderful.
Until two weeks ago. With changing nothing on our end, or onedrive shared file now no longer shows up as a folder in file explorer. It is a shortcut link to the web based one drive. It's been an asbolute nightare for us.
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u/gerblewisperer May 20 '25 edited May 21 '25
Valid. I need to share a dataset library with my current client via OneDrive because there is no shared drive. OneDrive keeps auto-saving when the shared user opens a file and now I have to work off of my hard-drive and copy the file to OneDrive to prevent unwanted saves from getting picked up. They don't use auto-save, and I don't use auto-save. There are no syncing options available. Yey, OneDrive treats this shared folder like a collaboration and keeps auto-saving the latest changes. I can't find an acceptable way to make it stop.
Edit: Shared user needs to edit. Shared user needs to improve on file but would not want to save file if attempted method doesn't work out but OneDrive keeps auto-saving when not wanted. So we therefore use the file outside of OneDrive and back it up to OneDrive. The point of this example supports the point of the meme. Someone commented with the absolute most obvious answer claiming experienced users are "doing it wrong" but couldn't explain the 'wrong' part or how it applies here.
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u/Geruvah May 21 '25
You should be able to go to version history and download the save you had hours before
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u/EvilToastedWeasel0 May 20 '25
I dislike Microshaft...
Doing something important?
Walk away to do something real quick?
Microshaft... WE INSTALLING UPDATE RIGHT NOW ***K YOUR WORK!
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u/the_calibre_cat May 20 '25
Ubuntu is nice. Microsoft is evil, I don't know what to tell y'all.
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u/AliOskiTheHoly May 20 '25
In this context Ubuntu is indeed nice. As a Linux user I'm used to shitting on Ubuntu but we all hate Windows.
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u/Brock_Petrov May 20 '25
I'm gonna try Linux again for the first time in a decade this weekend. I'm hopeful. It seems like the support for games is vastly better than it was 10 years ago.
I'm over win 11
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u/AliOskiTheHoly May 20 '25
I can help you if you want, just DM me. What games do you play?
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u/Brock_Petrov May 20 '25
Thanks :) But i think im good so far. I just checked everything major and it all works. Seems like steam somewhat solved this problem on its own.
Now just to make a lot of backups and whatnot before i nuke my harddrives :)
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u/Cautious_Trouble6738 May 20 '25
This shit keep deleting my files and putting old ones in their place.
I'll never forget wen One drive rowback my minecraft world.
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u/Cautious_Trouble6738 May 20 '25
Anyone know a better free auto-beckup app, btw?
Google Drive dont have auto-beckup, I think.
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u/crackeddryice May 20 '25
I upgraded to Linux Mint a year ago. I'm finally back in control of my own damn computer.
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u/AcrobaticMorkva May 20 '25
After the last update, I just started to move everything away from this shit and thinking about canceling my subscription to Office 365
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u/Sensitive_Decision55 May 20 '25
If you happen to not need adobe based programs for anything, are tech savvy, or only need your pc for simple tasks like saving pics, documents, scrolling Reddit etc. I recommend using linux. Specifically linux mint. Its the most friendly os out there. Its a pain in the ass to switch but it also depends on what you want out of your pc. And yes there are free alternatives to word, excel etc
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u/Many-Rooster-8773 May 20 '25
Not just OneDrive, that Libraries nonsense is also infuriating. Stop fucking with my file paths damn you Windows!!
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"Teams" hijacks the files and attaches them to the cloud. They have faith that one day it will fill up and they will purchase more space... The chat: I'll send it to you by email.
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u/FlorisTheFifth May 20 '25
Dude, I've disabled this like 3 or 4 times. It's a daunting task to do. Once you're finally done it still uses the OneDrive variants in your favorites. And after the next update it's just simply back on again.
It's crazy. I hate the choices Microsoft is making lately so much.
I never had much problems with Windows. I enjoyed most of them (I'd almost say I was okay with windows vista). But since like a year or two stuff is just becoming messy, in your face and they've started making so many decisions for me that it is just driving me insane.
Stop deciding what I want. I know what I want. Stop forcing your stupid AI in my notepad. Stop forcing me onto OneDrive. Stop turning my computer back on when I say it to shutdown after updates. Stop trying to "shut down" for ages if my internet connection is down (whatcha doing microsoft? Uploading my shit before you turn off?)
the only good thing that has come out of Microsoft in the past 5 years is WSL2.
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u/thrownawaz092 May 20 '25
Let's finish setting up!
A or B?
A or B?
A or B?
Alright, you're all done! But since you kept choosing B when we wanted you to choose A, Let's finish setting up!
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u/Trylen May 20 '25
Worked in IT for a year and a half, I was the guy that setup the majority of systems for new users.. I loathe One drive,,... But I guess for a work environment it helps.. Didn't mean I had to like it.. At home, it's removed before I go online to get drivers and updates
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u/aerappel May 20 '25
Worst thing is that all office programs default their saving folder always to onedrive instead of my last used folder
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u/bazinga_moment May 20 '25
I just decided it wasn't worth it when one drive decided to fill up with my skyrim quicksaves instead of the shit I wanted in there. Uninstalled and never looking back.
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u/Greywatcher May 20 '25
I was having difficulties transferring pictures from my iPhone to a PC. It would start the transfer then randomly stop and say that is was all done.
I thought that OneDrive might be an effective solution to regain control of the pictures on my iPhone. OneDrive quickly and effectively uploaded all the pictures from my iPhone and I had access to them from my PC. Yay.
Except that OneDrive saved all of my pictures in some unusable file format. What a shit program.
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u/DragonborReborn May 20 '25
Was it HEIC? That’s your phone not OneDrive. OneDrive doesn’t change your file format.
This whole thing sounds like user error not reading what you are clicking
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u/Amnsia May 20 '25
I love that Dropbox is 10x the man onedrive will ever be but work forces us. Fucking despise onedrive and love this hate
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u/Captain_EFFF May 20 '25
Took a programming class a while back and about 5 of the students were windows users, they all lost their local directory for class work multiple times thanks to One Drive
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I deleted all Microsoft products from my computer. I got a msg stating that I need to pay more because I was over the limit. I am retired and couldn’t afford it so I deleted everything from them.
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u/1llDoitTomorrow May 20 '25
I made all files I save redirect to my offline document file and turned off all the one drive mentions. I also bought an older version of office that's a one time deal. Ever since my drive looks pretty clean and I almost never need something to be there anyway. They made me do all that manually though with no proper guidance on how to do so. If ai is good for 1 thing, it helping you to create this exact setup.
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u/StrikinglyOblivious May 20 '25
Office every time I open it now "BACK UP THIS DOCUMENT Protect this and other files using OneDrive"
Me: FU Office, these files are in the Hunger Games now..
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u/SillySin May 20 '25
I lost files and photos from 15 years ago cuz of one drive, it's like cancer, took over my pc and had to burn the pc to get rid of it, the directory and such.
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u/Sufficient-Agency846 May 20 '25
“Hey, I know that 90% of what goes onto this PC is video games and the rest is porn but how about setting up every application that would only be useful for a work PC? No? I’ll try again later.”
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u/thatbeerguy90 May 20 '25
I work with alot of Export Controled data...my company freaked out when they made us all upgrade M365 and forgot to turn off this feature.
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u/ML00k3r May 20 '25
This is one of the primary reasons why I built a NAS and only one share syncs with OneDrive.
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u/y2jeff May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25
Linux is experiencing a golden age right now. It's still not quite there for your most basic user but for anyone who even knows what OneDrive is, congrats you're tech savvy enough to use a basic distro like Ubuntu without ever touching the command line.
And if you're a gamer, Valve has done SO much for gaming on Linux in recent years. You can basically play anything except some competitive online games with kernel-level anti cheat software.
And if you're even slightly tech savvy, a cutting edge distro like Fedora is honestly even better than Windows 11 and comes with none of the bullshit. It's basically Windows 7 but better. There are occasional problems due to the frequent updates but those are usually fixed shortly after
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u/VeryDryWater May 20 '25
Micro$oft will continue to worsen.
Come to Linux, or if your programs absolutely cannot run outside of Windows try the LTSC version of 10 or 11 - no onedrive, cortana, store, or AI bullshit.
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u/Aster_E May 20 '25
Things like this are why I remove One Drive using Revo. One Drive is a blight on any sane person’s PC.
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u/foxontheroof May 20 '25
Come to linux, come to linux, come to linux, come to linux, come to linux, come to linux, come to linux, come to linux, come to linux
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u/korin-air May 20 '25
I use RevoUninstaller to delete One Drive before I connect to the internet (if possible), that program will actually delete all traces of One Drive instead of leaving a bunch of files hidden in your personal drives.
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u/Ronin7577 May 20 '25
"Soooooo... We noticed you're running out of space, here's 43 popups with upgrade options and thumbnails of your files looking like some veiled ransom/extortion attempt..."
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u/allofdarknessin1 May 21 '25
I like using it but why the fuck do I need to set which folders I don’t want being backed up every single new install? wtf?
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u/financewiz May 21 '25
“Nice Documents Folder you got there. Be a crying shame if you lost control of it.”
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u/Comfortable-Dog-8437 May 21 '25
What's the point of having a computer with 1T of storage and uploading everything to the clouds in the skys?
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u/fresh_squilliam May 21 '25
This is the shit that is pushing me in the direction of switching to Linux.
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u/thatguyiknow May 21 '25
This week, after years of lazy “set and forget” double backup of photos and videos to Google Drive and OneDrive I decided I gotta cancel both subscriptions. Costs are rising and I’ve just been lazy.
Imagine my surprise when both vendors sent scary emails, warning me that because I have so many photos backed up, my email inbox will soon be blocked, Emails will “bounce back” and be “unrecoverable” until I cough up and resubscribe.
Okay sure… I’ll pull my photos off the cloud. I’m sure that’s an easy task and isn’t deliberately obfuscated so that I just keep paying…
A quick google will tell you hard it is to leave these services… iCloud takes the cake here with photos only downloadable in lots of 1000…
So these guys are gonna hold my 20 year old Hotmail account hostage, hoping I stay lazy and continue my subscription? Fat chance, especially with the state of the US right now…
So good work guys… I’m researching NAS options and plan to split the upfront cost with any family and friends who want in…
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u/Vstar_3107 May 21 '25
Chat can I play windows games on any Linux? Cause I’m so fed up of this one drive bs
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u/Illustrious-Beat-370 May 21 '25
When you have to explain to elderly people that they will continue to be asked to set up something they do not want repeatedly... . Forever.
It's easier to install Linux now than Windows. Let that sink in.
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u/Weaponized-Potato May 21 '25
Set OD’s sync to manual or NEVER, then goes to settings and look for INSTALLED APPS (Control Panel doesn’t list it. Microsoft is a sneaky asshole) and then delete/uninstall it. Note that Microsoft reinstalls OD when Windows updates so be on your guard. Fuck OD
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u/Ethanol42 May 22 '25
After losing all of my 3D CAD models to a broken drive... I have learned to love one drive
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u/samsta8 May 23 '25
You can just uninstall OneDrive…
Use Chris Titus’s Windows Utility to remove OneDrive and loads of other rubbish in Windows 11
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u/Over_Bathroom6991 May 20 '25
So many technically illiterate people ITT who keep talking nonsense. Same as every time a meme like that gets posted. I'm convinced half of these comments are bots. OneDrive can keep your files both locally and on the cloud, so they ARE, in fact, offline, and they are "safe". Not only that, but you get version history and a guarantee that a bricked data storage will not make you lose your files. If you place your trust in Microsoft by literally installing their operating system, why would you suddenly act concerned over the safety of OneDrive? And the "organized" part comes down to the user. Reddit just loves jumping on bandwagons that make no sense.
The only valid criticism ITT is that OneDrive is extremely annoying with shoving itself down your throat. The rest is just people that lack knowledge that ideally should've been extremely common.
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u/a_chatbot May 20 '25
If you place your trust in Microsoft by literally installing their operating system, why would you suddenly act concerned over the safety of OneDrive?
If you trust Linus Torvalds enough to install Linux for your OS, why would you then be concerned with storing your files on his remote server?
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u/Hackerwithalacker May 20 '25
That would be a fair point if Linux worked like Microsoft but it doesn't, like it or not Microsoft has you on their private servers whether or not you use onedrive
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u/catscanmeow May 20 '25
The issue is i dont want them to use my data to train their AI, especially because i have work thats under a non disclosure agreement
when you put your files on the cloud they are using them to train their AI, thats why its mostly free. they are desperate for data.
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u/AFatedFox May 20 '25
I don’t get the hate for OneDrive, it works great for me. If my hard drive breaks for whatever reason all my documents and pictures are safe
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u/mrbios May 20 '25
I've worked in IT for near 20 years now, so i know precisely the kind of people hating on it. They don't read what's on screen. Just want to click next to everything without paying attention to what they're being asked. Then it's the computers fault when a problem occurs because 5GB isn't enough space to store everything by default.
Significant value in OneDrive when it's utilised properly. Granted it doesn't have to be OneDrive, could be google drive or icloud...but just like apple don't give you a choice on mac, why should microsoft give you a choice on windows?
Storing data in the cloud is a risk to privacy, but it's also protecting you from data loss, and it does a bloody good job at that. I've had to support family and friends going back to the XP days, and i wish we had OneDrive back then! So many different ways i've had to go about restoring files, including having to solder wires from an IDE HDD's PCB directly to the IDE lead because pins on the drive had snapped off.
Haters gonna hate though because "Microsoft bad"
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Everyone hates OneDrive, even the engineers assigned to maintain it. The only people who like it are your company's IT shop because it saves the current state of computers if/when they die.
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u/youarenotgonnalikeme May 20 '25
One drive is the worst. It will force unknowing people to use one drive and then when it’s full it will not let you save anything until you pay for more space.
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u/Broskfisken May 20 '25
Microsoft held my OneDrive files hostage and threatened to delete everything unless I "upgraded my plan". The strangest part about it is that I didn't even have any files on OneDrive.
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u/kaenen2 May 20 '25
Ah yes, the good ol, we filled up your drive with some of your files. You need more storage space so we can get it all! No, fuck off.
Not using edge? Here's an open tab you can't close out unless you use task manager to end the session!
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u/me0w_z3d0ng May 20 '25
I'm in IT. I have a couple suggestions. 1. Stop worrying and learn to love the coming cloud revolution. Its inevitable and the longer y'all fight against the coming tide the older you get, both in mind and body. Resist the "old man yells at cloud" phase of your life for as long as you can. 2. If you've failed at step 1, you can restore your Desktop, Pictures and Documents folders to their original locations, thus quarantining what OneDrive backs up to its own file paths. To do this, right click on your Desktop/Pictures/Documents folder from quick access and choose Properties. Choose the Location tab and select Restore Default. It will throw a warning at you, ignore it and proceed. Do this for each folder. Congratulations you've now separated your viewable Desktop from the Desktop folder listed in OneDrive.
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u/cancercureall May 20 '25
Get fucked, stay fucked. Not interested in your dogshit future.
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u/Pop-metal May 20 '25
I had 3 copies of this shit program once. It would crash and restart a new Copy. Couldn’t figure out it wa already set up with a drive.
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u/hadtobethetacos May 20 '25
It's literally the worst, even Chris Titus tool won't get rid of it anymore.
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u/Greylan_Art May 20 '25
Outlook sucks. I have had the response to my job application get sent to junk before. Luckily I checked barely in time
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u/teleheaddawgfan May 20 '25
Trying to share with someone outside of the OneDrive Universe is next to impossible.
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u/Femboys_make_me_bust May 20 '25
I literally said no like a bazillion times and it suddenly just did it on its own and I had like a shit ton of copies of my apps, spent a while deleting them all. I wish this thing burns in the deepest parts of hell
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u/Corliq_q May 20 '25
When you go to save and the file location is automatically a onedrive location... shit is making me antisemitic
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This is the same person who will blame IT when their computer blows up and none of their work shit is recoverable.
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u/Man-in-Taxi May 20 '25 edited May 25 '25
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u/SynapseNotFound May 20 '25
just uninstall it.
easy.
then use syncthing, its free and shuts up
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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 May 20 '25
I set up my firewall so that OneDrive can't talk in or out. Because fuck μSoft!
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u/Drew9900 May 20 '25
It took literal days of me doing nothing but googling and planning to actually get onedrive off of my computer. It arbitrarily broke so many file paths that I had to manually go and fix several cases.
Obviously, if you're smarter than me, you could do it faster, but onedrive is so frustrating to deal with that you'll still hate it.
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u/CodeAdorable1586 May 20 '25
One drive deleted all the videos of my dead cat and replaced them with empty video files
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u/DragonborReborn May 20 '25
I’ll never understand the hate. It’s an easy tool to use. And it’s easy to turn off.
Do a single google for how to disable OneDrive. Have a little responsibility for your own computer literacy
— Sincerely A tired IT tech
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u/JPL_WSB_BRRRRR May 20 '25
If windows launched today in this state for the first time, Microsoft would be out of business before Christmas. Unfortunately, they are monopoly of unimaginable scale.
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u/sad_cheese67 May 20 '25
in the first 2 years that I owned my current windows 10 desktop, it had a very strange bug where file explorer was extremely slow, and as months went on, it got so unbelievably bad to the point where it would not load anything. nothing on my C drive, nothing on my D drive, and even not a single thing on my external SSD drive. hell, not even the smallest little USB drive could be loaded up if you for some god forsaken reason tried to use my computer to do it. this was unbelievably annoying, as I am someone who needs to use file explorer daily - mostly for modding video games, but also homework, image editing, video editing, and just general storage access. this was a nightmare that, again, I could not figure out for 2 years, that took hours upon hours of troubleshooting different solutions I had seen online, or even come up with on my own. microsoft tech support managed to find me some temporary solutions too, but they only worked for an hour, and seemed to stop doing anything to help after using them more than only a few times. clearly, not even microsoft tech support knew what could possibly cause this issue. scouring multiple pages of google gave me nothing for a while, either.
Then I realized, "oh, reddit has a tech support sub. maybe I'll see if they have any solutions." searching for a post about file explorer being extremely slow gave me an idea, because someone mentioned one drive significantly slowed down their system. up until this point, the only reason I had ever opened one drive was to tell it to shut up after it told me that my back up storage was full. and now, I was opening it to disable it. crazy thing is, it worked. after one drive was disabled, I restarted my computer, and have not ONCE ever encountered that problem again.
I would like to say, since my one drive storage was full by this point, I don't think that it could be backing anything up. Also, this issue was for EVERY FOLDER. If I didn't have a shortcut to these folders that I needed to access, it'd be damn impossible to get to them. These also didn't even have to be backed up by one drive, either. It was simply everything. Microsoft managed to create software to back up files so unbelievably badly, that it made every file, period, impossible to access. Fuck one drive.
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u/_reality_is_humming_ May 20 '25
I want to keep the files that I own on the computer that I bought using the storage space that I own. No I do not want to put my data in the cloud. If I need my files and I dont have internet I'm fucked. Its one thing to backup to the cloud, a completely different very stupid thing to store them there as their central storage location.
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u/vicious71cum May 20 '25
is there a way around the "lets finish setting up" splash screen i get every few weeks?
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u/zombiskunk May 20 '25
OneDrive is for businesses that don't allow their users to back up files to external storage. Or for users that could make copies of the files in Documents but never do (and then their HDD does and they lose 20 years of files)
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u/Tigrisrock May 20 '25
What do those combat experts say? "Running away is the best way to deal with someone armed with a knife" or something like that.
Hello Debbie-Anne!
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u/DaVoiceOfTreason May 20 '25
My one drive got full one time and my outlook account stopped receiving emails
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u/Stranger-Tingzz May 20 '25
Would you also like to upgrade your monthly cloud storage limit or maybe get office 365 or even maybe sign up for the monthly game pass?
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u/Getherer May 20 '25
Can someone explain to me how so many people are unable to just disable it on startup and uninstall it? What exactly is it hard to comprehend here? Done it once and i never have to deal with it...
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u/Upsetti_Gisepe May 20 '25
I had one drive access with school and had a lot of work documents save there unknowingly. Now that I am not in schooo and don’t have one drive I do not have access to some of my work files lmao
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u/GrizDrummer25 May 20 '25
Was trying to help my buddy revive an old laptop that OneDrive hijacked. The computer took 25mins after booting to become usable because OneDrive had to sync 400gb of programs and files!
Fast forward to me building my wife a computer; give a nice big Boot/Game M.2 , and a separate file SSD. Few weeks later she's like 'everythings crazy slow'. I checked dive space, and it's all empty! OneDrive had hijacked everything, including installing the games into the Cloud folder!
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u/MS23124 May 20 '25
Why don't they give a "Never ask me again" option for this!