OneDrive Thread - The new McAfee.

[Alex Hogendorp]

One Drive has been a mess for me and a lot of other people. While I do like the concept of being able to access your files everywhere, OneDrive took it way too far. For years I was completely oblivious to the fact I was saving things to One Drive when I never intended to. Literally the Pictures, Documents and Desktop are all within OneDrive which later led to me getting the annoying notification that OneDrive is getting full. I literally uninstalled the thing just for all this to stop and while the app is gone, it's remains still lingers. But whose idea was it to put essential computer files like desktop inside One Drive?, Thas is one of the dumbest ideas I ever heard. I don't know if or when I might reinstall One Drive. I liked the concept of it but Microsoft took it way too far. Not to forget you need to pay money to increase storage and it's not always reliable so outages occur making it impossible to access these files when it was down.

 

[Coolio55]

Lmao. It's the exact opposite for me.
Everyone saves their files locally and thein throws a shit fit when their pc dies and we can't get them off the tpm encrypted hdd.
Don't even get me started on that POS Sync Center. (One right click away from silently fucking up a shared folder, almost always incurring data loss)

 

[SaltyFanta]

I got like 40 emails saying my onedrive was full because I reinstalled windows. Did not expect it to just try to download my entire pc. If it's important I think I'll just make offline backups.

 

[Jones McCann]

It's a post-hoc justification for them to spy on everything you do, same with Windows Defender.

 

[Halt and Catch Fire]

i uninstalled it from windows and i still have files that lead there idk I just move my files over if they end up there.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

My dad uses it, had issues it with one day. He got a new PC and despite marking his OneDrive folders to be accesible from his PC they would not show up. He tried for hours, formatted the laptop twice. No matter what he does he needs to open OneDrive to access the folders. He gets home and asks me to try and solve it.

Turns out that for some reason marking a OneDrive folder as favorite and to be connected to the PC 24/7 doesn't automatically create a shortcut. I had to right click and select "create shortcut". Why? What the fuck? I mean it was funny my boomer dad couldn't figure it out but it is such a unusual step for something meant to be as normie and accessible as possible! It's really not what I would expect from a software meant for average end users and office drones.

So yeah fuck OneDrive I hate the "cloud" that shit doesn't exist it's just someone's else computer I love my data hoarding I will never stop saving useless shit and keeping it locally.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

I'm working in a company project to get our records digitized and uploaded to OneDrive. Just yesterday, a lady from HR came into my office in a panic because she needed the file of a recently terminated employee and couldn't find it. I knew for a fact that I had uploaded the file, but searching for it myself using the web version turned up nothing. I keep backups locally so I emailed her the scanned file and eventually verified the file was there on OneDrive, but nothing is searchable, even if you're in the folder where you have the file (and we're talking about folders with hundreds of files each). I think it's different if you have it synced with your OneDrive desktop app, but not all of us can do that. Every other cloud storage service allows you to search files.

A smaller gripe I'm having right now is that clearing the search bar also doesn't return you to the default view of the folder, it expects you to click the back button that only appears if you have your cursor in the search bar. So basically when you're finding nothing where there should be something, you end up wondering why there is still nothing.

 

[Ghostface Killah]

NiggerDrive.

 

[Miller]

Not my problem.
When I re-installed Windows 10, I unplugged my PC from the Internet, created a local account and uninstalled OneDrive.

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

Stop using Windows unless you're playing games, or you're getting paid to use it. If you have the brain cells to find this site, you have the brain cells to install one of many easy-to-install Linux distros. If you can't do that, get a M1 Mac.

And get a Nextcloud instance. One-click instances are $10/month on Lindoe for ~200 GB.

 

[Canned Ham]

NiggerDrive.

PrideDrive.

 

[Pissmaster]

Stop using Windows unless you're playing games, or you're getting paid to use it. If you have the brain cells to find this site, you have the brain cells to install one of many easy-to-install Linux distros. If you can't do that, get a M1 Mac.

And get a Nextcloud instance. One-click instances are $10/month on Lindoe for ~200 GB.

>paying for cloud storage

No

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Not my problem.
When I re-installed Windows 10, I unplugged my PC from the Internet, created a local account and uninstalled OneDrive.

(Not really a direct reply to you Miller, more building on your post)

I wonder if winget will remove OneDrive? Winget should be part of an up to date windows install media by now.
‘winget uninstall cortana’ tells me that it has removed Cortana and iirc it doesn’t show up in Apps anymore.

 

[Pee Cola]

And get a Nextcloud instance. One-click instances are $10/month on Lindoe for ~200 GB.

>paying for cloud storage

No

If you already have a VPS for other purposes and you have way more storage on there than you need, then installing Nextcloud on there makes sense. Sure, it means having to install it from scratch and that can be a pain in the ass... but it's worth doing and oh so satisfying once you get it working.

I'm on RackNerd's rock bottom KVM VPS plan ($23 a year for 512MB RAM, 1 Vcore and 15GB storage), which is perfectly cromulent for my needs and I'm using storage that would otherwise go to waste. Works great across all my devices (Win, Mac, Linux and Android).

That being said, if someone wants to pay $10/month for a turnkey Nextcloud instance and 200GB of storage, I don't see the problem in that. It's still more based than using OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive or any of the other niggercattle cloud storage services.

OneDrive can suck my dick.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

My favorite part was when microsoft made it easy to upload Xbox clips to onedrive and then apparently just deleted fucking everything at some point so I lost 6 years of funnies I recorded. That one stings to this day.

 

[NewHousewife]

If you can't be fucked to figure out Linux and how to use wine, Windows 10 LTSC is your best bet. It is simply just windows without most of the bloat like OneDrive. It's similar to how Windows XP came from a fresh install, with bare programs like calculator and notepad.
It still has the telemetry that Microsoft uses to collect data however. There is no getting around that. You can try to minimize it by using ShutUp10, but windows is simply not for the person who is anal about privacy.
I would recommend at least attempting Ubuntu for a little while if you are worried about data collection.

 

[rel=alternate]

I always take the extra step of saving locally instead of the drive, and it forces me to change it from the default One drive folder to local every fucking time I start my PC over. If I loose my shit, I'll get over it.

Fuck the cloud and fuck Mcafee who also tries to switch my default Browser to Yahoo Safe Search or whatever similar trash.

If I was any good at IT, I'd say fuck windows too. But I am too lazy to learn something else to avoid minor inconvenience.

 

[Kikkoman]

I forgot onedrive existed and my 10 install doesn't try and force it on me beyond a useless space in the explorer sidebar.

I guess its so shit to try and coerce you into paying a subscription?