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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.
Even more insidious, is that just after a recent Windows 10 update had installed (June 2025) it showed a full screen notification trying to persuade me to connect my phone to my PC, change my browser to the one nobody wants (Edge, see below) and "set up a backup". It also added a big "Setup a backup" tile in a prime spot on the Start menu, which of course I closed/canceled immediately. What is wrong here is that they refer to OneDrive as simply a backup system, when what they are trying to do is needlessly sync my entire \Documents folder (not that I have ever used their annoyingly stupid default filing system) to OneDrive, charge me when I run out of cloud space, while making me believe I will have made a "safe" second copy of my files. And don't get me started on the Taskbar search icon (which I rarely ever use), to be confronted with a whole bunch of irrelevant Microsoft advertisements. That, and Edge's default home page full of Microsoft's biased selection of "news" and celebrity "entertainment" ©r@p makes me wonder just how stupid the people at Microsoft have become. I am seriously looking at switching to Linux Mint on 14th October, when Microsoft try to hold me to ransom for using their existing product on an old PC, while unhelpfully shoving adverts and half-truths directing me towards their wildly overpriced hardware. Microsoft is going mad in its old age.
OheDrive sucks
YES! YES! YES! **** won't they fix 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.