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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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I am totally with you. I just had my laptop crash, because of a virus in my one drive. I lost everything. What I was able to retrieve, One Drive won't let me move it, or copy it, or have access to it, unless I pay for a subscription. I have to pay for my own personal documents, pics, and other important data....
Why don't you document the steps on how to do this?
I am with you. Let's file something and destroy this **** nightmare theft of my **** personal data. Somehow this **** **** is controlling my pc from the cloud. If I turn one drive off or completely remove it. I literally lose my entire **** c drive except for a non working windows environment.
Where are you located, I think we need to start a class action lawsuit. This is pissing me off. It is currently telling me it is going to delete my hijacked files if I don't do it first.....to free up space, that I don't need.
Currently the United States. They don't even tell you that all your data is shuffled off to Microsoft servers. They just do it without the option to opt out from the start.