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.

  • viking@infosec.pub
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    5 hours ago

    I have uninstalled One Drive and enabled a system policy that supposedly sets the default save location to c:\user\documents, and after every single fucking update it defaults back to one drive, hangs for 30 seconds until the stupid ass system realizes that there’s no such thing present, and then it opens a “save as” dialogue with some arbitrary path in %user_apps/appdata/onedrive.

    GNARF.

      • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 hours ago

        You know that’s a novel and insightful musing that no one’s ever thought to share before.

        It’s brave of you to go on Lemmy and suggest the solution to a Windows problem is to uninstall it.