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Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 week ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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When Windows users suddenly discover that their files have vanished from their desktops after interacting with OneDrive, the issue often stems from how Microsoft's cloud service integrates with the operating system. The automatic, near-invisible shift to cloud-based storage has triggered strong reactions from users who find the feature unintuitive and, in some cases, destructive to their local files.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Adding "cloud capabilities" during the slow death of capitalism wasn't the best idea. There are a lot of opportunists out there!

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

So I had the weird issue that none of my shortcuts were showing the proper icon, instead showing the blank piece of paper placeholder(even in the taskbar). Was digging through some other settings for something and found a bunch of one drive settings left on. Turned them all off and suddenly my icons are back to normal. Not sure if it was trying to access the files in the cloud instead of locally and wasn't loading them properly or what. Either way, One Drive absolutely fucks a lot of random things up

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shit like is literally why i have a saved winscript json that gets run on all work machines after "updates"

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[–] pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ha, shows you right.

God, people, just get yourselves flash drives or an external drive. Cloud storage is dumb.

You could make either of those options last through your entire lifetime if you care for them properly. But I guess people enjoy the idea of going "huh?" whenever files mysteriously disappear from cloud storage.

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I dont want to jump to conclusions since techspot is a dogshit outlet for information. Can anyone give me an example of onedrive users losing their files? I checked out a few reddit posts and tech fourm posts and none of the users seem to have actually lost files due to one drive. It seemed that users were getting confused at the onedrive file path overriding their default home path or unhappy that their onedrive hit a storage limit. Like most of the posts are about things that very clearly cant happen with onedrive.

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[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I run a recording studio and I use RME hardware

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