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

Anonymous
2023-09-20T23:52:12+00:00

Microsoft is using deceptive tactics to hold our content hostage. I wasn't given any intimation on how OneDrive would without my permission take hold of my folders and content and not release it back to me unless I took their subscription account to access them. Even though I have paid for a yearly subscription, I still am not able to restore back all my content to my local storage. Though the sum of amount they've received isn't much, the value of my content is too high for me. I do not want them on OneDrive, I want them locally on my computer and for me to access, store, or transfer per my discretion.

When they apply this policy at a systemic level where all Windows users are subjected to it, suddenly the under $20 annual fee obviously becomes a much greater sum. It is something that must be attacked and resented publicly. A class action law suit is necessary when companies begin to act so callously.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-07T18:07:41+00:00

    You say things like that and they are fundamentally untrue.

    I followed every suggestion each time, no matter what I did, onedrive invaded my life and uploaded. If MS is able, and they were, to hack into my computer while I'm sleeping and install Windows 11 which crashed my life, what makes you think that doing this, doing that, will work? It doesn't. Eset can't block them. Insidious.

    I've been at this for over two months. I wiped my computer, installed Windows 10 and I'm forced to keep up the fight. I wish I could go back to 98 2nd Edition.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-07T18:01:46+00:00

    I did that and stopped back ups and paused updates until August 29th.

    If I write an entire page of cuss words on Word it uploads. I installed a desktop version of my email, uploaded. I uninstalled it, restart, searched in C, deleted a ton, restart, search C, delete more. The Twilight Zone.

    Updates are still being installed most of which cannot be uninstalled.

    This is a horror movie without end, without recourse. It is hacking, it is invasion.

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  3. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,531 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-08-07T17:55:25+00:00

    All you need to do is turn off OneDrive sync. Then move everything back to the folders that are outside of OneDrive.

    Did you request a call back from support? If not, don't trust people who call and say they are with Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-07T17:53:02+00:00

    I'm a gonna try to override the email deletion.

    Think of this as one word

    First -

    microsoft

    escalation

    support - All one word

    Second -

    Shift/2

    Third -

    microsoftsupport

    Last -

    dot/com

    I hope this works

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-07T17:42:35+00:00

    I'm out of luck. Insidious MS slinks everywhere.

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