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Why would MS think that anyone would want the entire contents of their personal hard drive to be uploaded to a cloud? And further, why would it make sense to delete the local files if someone deleted them from the cloud? In what world does this make sense. It is a poorly designed system and it's a huge violation of privacy of your customers. I have nearly lost all my files because I "deleted" them from OneDrive. I guess I stupidly thought that my local files were safe, as I did not try to delete them. OneDrive, in its ineptitude, decided for me that since I didn't want them on some server somewhere, that I must not need them at all.
Please move to an opt-in model instead of the current opt-out model. And upon opting in, there should be a tutorial of the functionality of the software. A tutorial that an idiot can understand. And it should default to sharing a single folder, not the entirety of a computer.
If it was designed this way to artificially increase "usage" of the terrible software, you did a great job. But you increased usage to impress whoever at the cost of your customers' happiness and at the cost of their privacy. As a basic rule, people don't like their personal possessions (including data) being taken without their knowledge or consent. If you are going to steal our data anyway, at least be sneakier about it.
A Microsoft file hosting and synchronization service.
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So I am not surprised from your comments. Seem to be the main problem with everyone. I personally really don't use 'clouds'. I find that a adequate backup USB hard drive does the job nicely.
YES! YES! YES! **** won't they fix it???????
Hello SH_Quietly_be_better, Welcome to Microsoft Community. I am a Microsoft user just like you, I hope you are well. Sorry for the inconvenience. However, if you have your OneDrive synced to a device and you delete a file in OneDrive, it will delete this file across all synced device. Same is applicable to adding a file to OneDrive, this file will be available on all devices. What you ought to have done was move this file out of your OneDrive folder. I understand your frustration but OneDrive functioned as expected. If you do not wish to sync your device with OneDrive, you can unlink OneDrive from your PC using guidance from Microsoft support article: https://support.microsoft.com/office/f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0 Please let me know if you need more assistance. Give back to the Community, Help the next person who has this issue by indicating if this reply solved your problem. Click Yes or No below. Warm Regards
I'm sorry, but, if that's the case, Microsoft shouldn't call it a backup!
Syncing is a terrible idea. If you delete a file, photo, video, or document, you lose it for life! I've lost precious photos of my late Brother, never to be seen again. All because I was trying to make space on one drive and not realising that by deleting from Onedrive, it also gets deleted from your PC.
This should be bidirectional, where you can choose where it stays.
Time for a new Backup plan, I think!
2p. Using OneDrive on a Mac has become impossible, had an engineer rebuild a M4 mac mini from scratch and the only thing installed was OneDrive - tested and found to - report files were synced when they were not, hang on last file in a directory - requires a restart of the mac, showed wrong icons - eg, shows yet to be downloaded from web but it has, and vice versa. Stops responding randomly and hangs machine when nothing is happening on OneDrive. We are MS Office users and the integration on PC's seems fine - not usable on a mac with docs not showing and deletions not happening.
The main problem with OneDrive is its glacial speed. I worked on a file at 530am, now I am one the road its now 7:30am and it still hasn't synched to this computer, with OneDrive sitting there dumb & stupid telling me that all files are synched (and yes I am connected to the internet).
I will admit this time frame is rare but 10mins is common but total unacceptable.
And this BS about workflows & multiple people working on a file in the cloud. I have the words "synchronisation problem" burned into my screen