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Microsoft should be sue class action for copying and deleting all my files from my computer and moving it OneDrive cloud space without letting the user know...to get more money and subscription, MS has moved all my files onto Cloud and deleted from my C: drive!
This is done without the users permission or letting the user know of deleting files from the local drive.
I can understand if it copies to OneDrive location on the CLOUD.
NOw it has also made multiple copies and when I want a file I connot find it even!
What MS has done is by virtue of owning the desktop, they are forcing people to use OneDrive and moving files and filling it up on OneDrive so Microsoft can charge more money for cloud space when I did not want to remove it from my local hard drive and keep it on the cloud to begin with.
Now I had too many directories under Documents, they are saying I will have to copy one by one; that too create a zip for each directory and restore it....no easy way back from MS Cloud OneDrive back to the local hard drive.
This is unacceptable and created headaches for many users!!
Now I have to put in a lot of hours to reconstuct my files...
-JP
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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****. Microsoft deleted ALL of my local files. I am a writer. These were important drafts that I had worked on, in some cases, for years. Microsoft destroyed ALL of that. This needs to be addressed. There needs to be a class action suit.
They stole my personal photos, my kids, wife, family and friends etc... my entire life over the last 20 years off my hard drive. AND also all of my businesses photography and other files. The damage is inestimable!!!
Please go and get some first hand training and understand the problem without making it trivial.
You have not experienced it; that's why you are talking like a rookie.
you are just doing your job...I understand; but the facts are different from what you are saying!
No easy way to copy it back...I had 100's of directories and I don't have the time and patience to copy it back by each zip file and restoring it. If Microsoft did not do this, users wouldn't have to waste their time doing this.
I will confirm that you are NOT crazy. It is infuriating to talk to Microsoft "Experts" who say, "OneDrive will keep all your files organized." No sir, it does no such thing.
Thank you for the additional link.
No, it removed all my files from my local drive!!
You probably have not experienced it; many users have experienced it.
Now they are telling me to zip up each directory from the OneDrive and move it back to the C: drive.
In the first place, MS did not make it clear that files will be deleted from local drive.
Had I know this, I would not have migrated to Microsoft Outlook.
Now I cannot even copy it back, as it made a link to OneDrive and took space and it says I don't have enough space to copy it back to my local drive also!
Without experiencing an issue like this, please don't answer as it is not the case as you say and many users have experienced this and frustrated that Microsoft is inadvertently doing this without proper prior warning. Even an experienced computer savvy guy like me finds it difficult to find files as they are moved!! And now I cannot work locally on a file, if I don't have internet when I travel!