I want to sue Microsoft -- OneDrive has hijacked all my local files and there's no way to retreive it!!!!

Me too! When I saw Microsoft removed my personal files--photos of my family, my Air Force career, projects I was working on, etc.--it was the same feeling I'd have if my home was burglalrized and I'd have nothing left in it--no furniture, no food, nothing.
Microsoft should be sued for a BILLION DOLLARS for what it has done to personal computers, removing data from our PCs and then requiring us to pay them to retrieve what is ours.

Microsoft's programmers should be strung up and have all THEIR property removed from their homes. All their family photos, their children, the food in their pantries, EVERYTHING.

Those bastards need to pay dearly for what their invasive ONEDRIVE has done to countless PC users. Microsoft's OneDrive is th best free advertising for APPLE COMPUTER to take all of Microsoft's customers.

Bill Gates needs to step back in and fix this STAT!!!

Anil N. Heendeniya
ANGRY PC OWNER whose family photos are all gone, and personal files are nowhere to be found--unless I pay MicroSTUFFED the RANSOM they want me to pay to retrieve files I never asked them to take! **** Criminals!

Hello Tom,

I have the same issue. I lost hundreds of documents, clients' files, tax files, folders are there and all are empty... The result of 10 + years of accounting work! I am devastated! I was trying to get help from their support but they just recommended to check my recycling folder and send them a list of missing documents! I have lost hundreds of them, I can't remember the names of those documents.

I am in Canada. Please count me in if you will be moving forward with the lawsuit.

I absolutely agree with you. Do not mess with your one drive. I am not happy with this cloud that I am being forced to use. I nearly lost all my documents and evidence for a lawsuit I am involved in, I potentially would have lost my case. do to icloud. Would you be interested in a class action as well.

Please let me know if you pursue this lawsuit because this also happened to me.

They should have notified users. This is a violation of privacy and rights of consumers. They didn't inform me either and when I copied my files back to my computer and uninstalled onedrive it took all of my stuff.

Microsoft, this is theft and needs to be addressed.

Ok. Let me updated my situation. I finally got control of the situation (kind of) several days after I posted my first message.

I was able to stop syncing my PC to the OneDrive, and then I copy over my files from the OneDrive/ directory, which is under Max Kiang/OneDrive/, I believe it's a physical location on my hard drive, which will be synced to the OneDrive on the cloud.

Because I have limited disk space, I can't just copy the whole directory over (I put Pictures/, Documents/ and Videos/ on OneDrive), and I need to copy them over in small chunks, then remove the same files under the OneDrive/ folder. It took some effort and concentration to do that! I definitely had cold sweat in the process.

Then everything seems to be fine. I have stopped the OneDrive Subscription, and I have stopped the sync between my OneDrive and the cloud. Yes?

No!!! About a few days ago, I think it's July 2nd, I noticed I got a message on my PC, asking me if I want to "resync" with oneDriver. I was mad and worried, I already showed my intention, why Microsoft kept on asking this? Anyway, when I decided to take a look at the details, the message was gone, and I click the lower right corner icon where the message was generated, and I got it back.

When I started to look at the message, trying to find how to disable and say "Thanks, and no Thanks!!!", then message disappeared again!!

Immediately, my home PC began to churn, the HD make big noise, apparently doing something. but there' s no message to show what's going on. I had no clue! I reluctantly left it along, and worked on my other PC (I was working from home, and needs to go back and work on my company PC).

After one hour, the home PC noise is gone, everything is quiet. I began to survey for damage. And to my horror, the empty OneDrive/ directy is full again, the old files are coming back!!!

Then I go to my physical directories on my PC, I found my Documents/ dir is fine. But my Pictures/ directory is all empty, it still has all the sub-directories, but they are all empty!!!

I go back to the OneDrive/ folder, then I found the reason. It seem the OneDrive/Documents/ folder only contain softlink to the OneDrive folder in Microsoft's server. but the OneDriver/Pictures/ folder has the physical files in it, and their symbol indicates they are waiting to be synced!! What the hell are you doing, Microsoft?????