Why is OneDrive so terrible?

Anonymous
2024-03-30T14:40:28+00:00

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.

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For home | Windows

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments No comments

75 answers

Sort by: Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-02T22:21:08+00:00

    I could not agree more!!!!! Microsoft has done a terrible, absolutely horrible to their customers! I am also a photographer who has lost so many photos and others need to replaced from back ups! What a complete waster of precious time! I am so furious that this mis adventure was not an "opt in" instead of an "opt out" which does not work well or easily!!!

    Microsoft has literally thrown away its reputation and handed over thousands of unhappy and disgruntled customers to Apple!

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments No comments
  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-03T10:17:24+00:00

    It’s just dreadful, that’s it!

    It’s counter intuitive.

    It’s about time for a class action?

    Or I’ll just go back to buying MACs as iCloud is a true “backup disk’

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments No comments
  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-03T13:03:59+00:00

    I'm with you on the class action. One Drive seems to be deliberately designed to be deceptive, and it looks like their real intent is to force users to purchase more storage space when they fill up the little space they are given at the start. I am a savvy computer user, but I didn't realize Windows 11 saved everything to One Drive BY DEFAULT! And, of course, Microsoft has a practical monopoly on PC operating systems.

    Was this answer helpful?

    7 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments No comments
  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-11T01:13:30+00:00

    I barely use Onedrive, but I went on holidays and took a truckload of pics so I thought it may be useful. I was wrong. And to top it off, I tried to renew My subscription and MS wont even let Me pay them money to reactivate it. **** on a new level.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments No comments
  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-19T13:48:01+00:00

    If I want to save My information myself i want to save it myself i don't want to place my data on the web for everybody to See.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments No comments