One drive has messed up my whole PC. How do I get my files back on my PC, and switch off one drive forever. (Please dont answer a question I did not ask)?

Anonymous
2024-01-12T07:27:02+00:00

One drive asked me if I wanted to back-up my files, it does not back up, it steals them and puts them online and in the process loses lots of them and makes your whole document opening slower.

This is not what I wanted, and its not what it said it would do (back up)

I dont want it, it has messed up my whole PC.

How do I get my files back on my PC, and switch off one drive forever?

Please dont answer a question I did not ask, don't tell me about where they are stored and an online recycle bin, or green ticks or always keep on this device.

I just want to COMPLETELY reverse the operation.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T15:32:38+00:00

    Microsoft Onedrive has turned what used to be a powerful computer into junk that I'm frustrated with daily.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T11:53:44+00:00

    my one drive says it has crashed and I'm unable to can open my file. Please urgently assist me, I'm worried as my work is currently affected by this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-11T11:19:24+00:00

    My 5 cents to this outrage.

    I've got 2 account - one private and one **@**.onmicrosoft.com.

    I've made this grave mistake to open a SharePoint folder in OneDrive while being logged on **@**.onmicrosoft.com.

    OneDrive started to sync my local users files and moved the to some unspecified location.

    As i recognized what it was doing - was to late.

    On the next login - my all data were gone - all icons from the desktop are gone. Documents are gone.

    It's YEARS of work!!

    I'm switching to Linux. Bye bye!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-05T21:13:17+00:00

    I like how your reply is exactly what he said not to do.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-04T07:12:06+00:00

    I can't find ". Select all the files you want to retain, then right click and select "Always keep on this device" so that it will be saved locally on your storage"

    explorer isn't always intuitive. the layers of folders for user created files tends to get buried in "user" "13457" or something

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