Why is OneDrive so terrible?

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.

I lost my entire music library of 300 GB when I deleted my copy in One Drive. I needed more room in the cloud. I copied my local music library to OneCloud but then I realized it was of no use.

You cannot play continuously all the audio files in a folder from One Drive. I am cancelling One Drive and moving to an Apple system.

MS stinks, really.

It does not clearly, from the get go, explain the relationship between the cloud and the hard drive or warn you when you delete something in the cloud that it also will delete the original.

I got no positive use from it. It created a disaster, instead.

Your response was atrocious.

"What you ought to have done is....." How utterly condescending when there is no actual information anywhere except Reddit on how to sort out the mess Microsoft has made of this useless piece of cloud storm.

I followed your instructions on Windows 11 PC and none of the images on your link match my folder structure. I nearly lost all of my files because THIS IS NOT A BACKUP. I also spent hours moving everything onto an external hard drive and deleting the whole lot out of onedrive and THEN UNINSTALLING THIS ABOMINATION.

What makes it worse is that it is a massive money scam.

Because it goes out of its way to not let you choose, the only option for the undetermined is to PAY FOR MORE STORAGE. That will be effing right you lot are not going to get a single penny more. DELETE DELETE DELETE.

Everyone who said this is a massive invasion of privacy is spot on.

It's like video games. Create a problem and sell the solution. They've taken the ability to install without an internet connection. They did that because so many people use it to avoid OneDrive.

Absolutely--it's unethical and really frankly scandalous--even theft of IP.

And absolutely textbook enshittification. The worst part is when your employer makes it happen and it destroys your work and workflow--doubling your workload and delaying your professional life by aeons. Uneffing believable bullcrap.