Why is OneDrive so terrible?

OneDrive may behave as designed, but the design is terrible. It took me about two days to realize it's not something I ever want to use. I'm tired of companies like Microsoft thinking they need to do everything for us.

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.

Bingo - I share the same sentiments exactly! Its the most time consuming crazed software on the planet - Its reason enough to leave Microsoft entirely or at least think seriously about doing so.

But this isn't a kid making a mistake this was done by design and is the very definition of a dark pattern.

OneDrive is the feature that finally made me give up on windows permanently. This is just straight up deceptive data theft. It constantly re-enables itself with updates. It points other programs pathing back to it even after it was disabled which re-activates it when it is referenced. At this point Steam is the only reason I have windows installed at all, and as soon as I have a workaround for that it's gone from my life forever.

Don't. Touch. My. Data. Without. My. Consent. Simple stuff. This behavior never was and will never be acceptable. Theft is not acceptable. Pre-emptively moving my stuff or changing my settings without my consent or knowledge to "accidentally" move my private files into the cloud is still theft no matter how you wrap it. It is not accidental when it is intentionally programmed to be deceptive, convoluted to disable, reset to defaults whenever an update happens, and moves/edits/deletes files by default without permission. Theft is theft and no word salad non-answer will make it anything except that.

I don't care if that's how it was designed, it was designed poorly to slurp up private end user files without end user knowledge. The replies forwarding to "contact your administrator", this is windows home I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR FFS. God forbid anyone on this site ever recognize a behavior that is massively unwanted as a mistake or give a real answer to a question like "how do I permanently disable this thing that keeps re-enabling itself" with yet another instruction to disable the settings that revert on their own anyways, which is generally never the question that was actually asked.

It is completely unhelpful to give canned corporate network answers to home users. Given that they can't handle basic home pc use, I wouldn't put this garbage in a business where trade secrets have to be protected if my life depended on it.

OneDrive is a menace. I just finished purging it from my system after it threatened to delete files if I didn't pay Microsoft money for more storage.