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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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[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've struggled to find an epithet for MS that would really sum up my anger in a single epic childish insult. Problem is, they already surpassed anything I could come up with.

They are tiny and flaccid, and no one should pay them any mind.

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[–] rossman@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I still don't know how it works. I have files from 2015 there I don't remember about.

[–] Subtracty@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I thought I was going insane. I have been losing files frequently, but have a detailed file tree and I'm diligent about naming and saving versions.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days 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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