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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.
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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What you've done sounds good. If you had let Microsoft do things as most of us have, your system would be fubar as well. Onedrive is not a backup, it rearranges and takes control of your pc file system, And it's very easy to disorganize things exponentially when trying to fix the problem.
Thank you to everyone for your replies! Funnily enough, this is the first time since I posed the question, I have been able to log back in to respond as Microsoft wouldn’t let me! No surprise there.
I have never been able to resolve this issue on the PC it happened on. The ONLY way I could resolve this was by buying a new PC. When I did that, I made sure I never accepted the backup to One Drive and kept the files I wanted to keep on my hard drive and those I have always had on One Drive have kept there.
Mind you! Every. Single. Time. I save a file on my hard drive it asks me to backup to One Drive. I have to say no every single time. Even when opening a file, One Drive wants access to it.
Frankly, this is disgusting but I have not got into the habit of refusing every time and so far, so good.
Yes, One Drive is great for those files I need to access everywhere but when it comes to everything else, it is invasive and I am not impressed.
-this Malware issue called "onedrive" has NOT been resolved for me, and I doubt anyone else, my deleted files are still deleted, my missing data is still missing, I did get a couple games to restore,, but only because the publisher had actual backups, not MALWARE labeled as a backup..
I'm just calling it what it is.. MALWARE
What you are requiring to do to keep the PC and external harddrive backups on the computer once the automatic installation of OneDrive is totally insane. Microsoft should not make it so difficult to keep your files on your own hard drive backups! This is not even explained when you install 365 professional software! One drive takes over your computer before you can even stop it. What happened to SELECTING the SOFTWARE I WANT not What some need at Microsoft wants. Give is our control back.