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[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I once turned that feature on thinking it was an actual backup (copies of my files in the cloud), I remember how angry I was when I found out it wasn't a backup after all and just removed your files from your computer and only made them accessible online.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You're supposed to uncheck the save storage space and download files as you use them option.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 months ago

You’re supposed to remove windows

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the classic Microsoft "what you really want is hidden behind a checkbox, otherwise you'll get shit".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They may have actually been inspired by Apple lmao (or maybe the other way around)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

This. Files uploaded locally should automatically be synced though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

They made it the default option for businesses that routinely buy computers with less local storage than their users need. Pretty much every company I have worked for.

They then pushed it out hard into the consumer market when SSD came out and the average storage space on lower end models dropped by 75%.

I see why they did it, how they did it was in usual Microsoft fashion, idiotic.

It's sort of their pattern.

  1. Introduce new changes.

  2. Screw it up royalty.

  3. Fix the features that are salvageable and revert most of the remaining except: Double down on the shitty ones that they think will make them more money.

  4. Rinse and Repeat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can see their strategy at work here.

It is possible to keep individual files on the local hard drive with different settings (that in my experience never seem to stick past updates).

The default, though, is to take everything on your computer off of your computer, put it into the cloud (their computer), and recommend you pick and choose which ones stay on your computer. In essence, they want you to think of your computer as secondary to their computer. An extension of it.

There is no "your computer", it's just the computer you happen to be logged into at the moment.

The cloud is not something you take advantage of, the cloud is where you live now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Wtf!

Good thing I use to debloat windows 10 on a local account and got rid of onedrive before it could wreck havok so.

But got to be honest, Far as long as I can remember, I always had backup of important data. Encryption - client side if off to the cloud.

Shit I'm so old that I prefer my music on HDD instead of using streaming services.

Using Linux nowadays too BTW.