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
    2024-08-28T15:50:26+00:00

    I am having the same problem. Is there any way we can complain to Microsoft? I feel violated by Onedrive. They are moving my files around and saving them in different places without my permission. Now I am afraid that I will loose everything.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-06T03:05:19+00:00

    My documents are completely mixed up and lost on my computer. Nothing works with onedrive and I cannot fix it.

    It's the worst software and problem I've ever had and I don't want to use it. Can you please restore my computer to what is was before this mess.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-12T15:22:48+00:00

    I have the same issue. I made the mistake of buying the $99.95/year office 365 subscription. They include 1TB of cloud storage with that. I never EVER intentionally setup OneDrive. In fact, I've been ignoring it for about ten years. I backup my files locally. I store my files locally on my computer and I backup all my PERSONAL files and PERSONAL photos and videos locally. I use Google drive for some stuff that I want on multiple machines. I have never wanted to use OneDrive, and I have never intentionally installed it.

    (And to be clear, I'm a webtech entrepreneur who built, scaled, and exited a successful SaaS business, so I know how to use technology. Quite well in fact.)

    Anyway, my computer recently did an H2 update from last year and it appears that as part of that Windows software update, Microsoft decided ON THEIR OWN to just change the settings in OneDrive so that My Documents and Desktop and Pictures are now automatically required to participate in OneDrive. And so all my files were copied to OneDrive.

    Worse than that - much, much worse actually - many/most of them appear to have actually been moved off of my computer and now reside only on OneDrive and anytime I go to open one, it has to wait to download it from the cloud. Which sometimes takes quite a long time.

    I'm so, so furious about this. So furious. This should be a class action lawsuit.

    Here's what's worse: Microsoft has effectively *stolen* my files and is now holding them *ransom*. Why do I allege this? Because from others' comments in this forum, it's clear that if I cancel my Office 365 subscription and the storage drops from 1TB back down to the free 5GB, then the 120GB of files that were offloaded from my computer and onto OneDrive will become completely unavailable to me. The only way to get these back, if at all, will be to resubscribe to Office 365. This is ransom, plain and simple.

    It's clear from reading others postings this is going to take me hours if not days to untangle. I hope I can get it back to the way it was before, and get my files out of their cloud. (Good luck with that, they will have been copied and copied over and over already to more and more systems and I'm sure they'll always be there. All my personal photos and personal files.) I don't have this time to spend. I did not choose to spend my time this way. It's one of the last things I want to do with my time.

    I'm super, super pissed. This is a total violation of consumer trust. They should be sued. Maybe they will be.

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  4. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-09-12T20:23:31+00:00

    I'm sure you know how to avoid OneDrive altogether. The problem is keeping files in the Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, and, of course, OneDrive folders. The sync often turns on without your approval in Manage Backup.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-15T14:33:22+00:00

    What useless platitudes you are spouting. Blaming the user for your mistakes - how cute - NOT. How about a little honesty here? The issue is not that your users are not configuring your **** software properly, the issue is that your goal is to steal my data to force me into paying you money to get it back. Can you say RANSOMEWARE? You greedy people just want me to pay more to store my photos on your insecure cloud. Let me be clear. I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR CLOUD. I want you to stay off my PC. I want you to stop interfering with my Toolkit backup. Most of all I want you to restore the photos you deleted to try to coerce me into paying you more money. Unfortunately it is probably too late now. Look at these comments. Stop forcing your onedrive on users. Make this an opt in service instead of opt out or at the very least make it far easier to disable. YOU SUCK.

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