Why is OneDrive so terrible?

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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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2024-07-30T21:24:00+00:00

can I restore
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2024-08-27T01:27:37+00:00

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

2024-09-03T17:56:00+00:00

OneDrive is THE WORST THING EVER, and I am a cripple who suffers from painful, debilitating arthritis and can barely walk. It took me multiple tries over several weeks to finally figure out how to disable and delete this malware which cost me hours of lost time as I had to rewrite and rerecord lost files, then months later when i tried to epxand my operations I realized that now my video files were disappearing into the Onedrive black hole.. Nothing so invasive and confsuing should come as a default. The problem is that users arent given an option not to uise it right from the first power on. If I knew what a headache i would be in for I never would have bought a Windows machine, and now i will never buy another one. As a disabled person who is barely getting by, I am scraping together every cent i can to buy an Aplle computer ASAP. The day I get to take the sledgehammer to this piece of junk will be a good day indeed. OneDrive completely ruined what otherwise would have been a pleasant experience. Now all it takes is the word OneDrive to appear on my screen for me to completely lose my mind. I have barely restrained myself from destroying the tower several times because of issues with OneDrive.
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2024-09-10T00:51:45+00:00

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.
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