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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.
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I just uninstalled onedrive.... a backup is a copy of the local files, not movement to a cloud. And I have files, whether by personal reason or by legal reason, that I do not/can not have on a cloud, yet, onedrive's management is poor and I could not setup the exact files/folders for movement. Finished with it, will not use it again.
It is deceptive! Calling it a "backup" is a lie. A backup saves a copy of your files. This moves the files to the cloud. There is no "undo" option. Express all of this clearly in your instructions and see how many people will use this nightmare!
You said to follow that link to stop using Onedrive, But, it doesn't guarantee you that your files won't be deleted instead of returned to my harddrive.
It looks like the only option is to copy folders and files and then paste them back on the hard drive. Very time consuming. If I ever get it finished, I will definitely delete the program.
If you want to salvage this program, make it a genuine backup. The option to "move" all files to the cloud should be a well described option with warnings.
If you read this thanks.
It's baffling how they could end up with such a bad design. It's like a kid is trying to make a website, but forget what he was doing every day and just start over with a new similar website. I have to log into Onedrive 2-3 times every time before I see the normal Onedrive website
OneDrive disguises itself as a file folder then MS act surprised when people treat files in it like they would any other file folder.
It's an awful design that seems deliberately set up to cause confusion and data loss.
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.
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