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

Why can't you sync the account to your desktop? Once it syncs, you can disable the "back up" feature.

In other words: "Once you subscribe and pay us you can recover control over your private data we hijacked without prior notice if you will only jump through all our hoops designed without consideration for your rights or convenience but laser-focused on turning your private data into our saleable product, WE PROMISE (subject to our terms of agreement that we change at our convenience, you dumb cluck)."

Just one more tactic to deny users control over their own data.

It appears to me that Microsoft has engineered obstacles to users who wish to keep their data to their own HDDs into every aspect of MS365 function and messaging. I've at last won through your various logins and security checks and security codes that don't arrive timely to actually delete my data, and I'm offended by the difficulty at every step. Of course it's not criminal intent but MS incompetence behind my experience. Sure. You people seem to have mastered the engineering of plausible deniability and other means to foil any customers who might want to hold you accountable. And I detest the hubris with which you presume to unilaterally change the terms of OUR agreement at will.

I've never actually hated software before, but this old dog just learned a new trick.

Bill Gates is anti-human, and his products companies and employees naturally follow suit. You are "people of the lie". May all concerned get what they deserve.

Just so the point isn't missed, I am complaining bitterly. Please accept this expression of my contempt for your evident contempt for your customers.

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.

I am a digital artist and I have lost countless hours of work and have lost valuable work that I can't replace. Please let me know if you hear of a class action. I definitely want in on that.

All I really need to do is win a small lottery and buy a Mac.

If you think macs will solve all your problems... LOL. I have a mac... I love my mac... but I need windows to get a lot of work done. And Apple is just as pushy with iCloud as Microsoft is with OneDrive.

"All you need to do" doesn't help. It used to make me feel stupid, not anymore. All I really need to do is win a small lottery and buy a Mac.