Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Lately, Windows 11 has been a one sussy baka. Windows, I don’t know, man, it’s almost like we have an impostor among us.

  • RBWells@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I got a new laptop at work and everything, every file I worked in, was creating a second copy of itself on OneDrive. It was so annoying and took awhile but I found instructions on deleting the duplicates.

    It took all the files off my local machine and left the ones on OneDrive.

    Aaaargh!

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, it did this to me a few months back. Got the files back local eventually but it was a big pain in my arse. If I had time to learn another os I’d already be gone. Seems like Microsoft is determined to asset-strip whatever good reputation their product had left.

  • azenyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    And yet people will just shrug it off and keep using windows. And Microsoft loves that.

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Oddly enough, OneDrive is the least of my problems with windows. It’s pretty handy at work since I have to juggle tasks between multiple PCs. My only hang up with Linux is games, which is odd since time wise I don’t spend most of my time there.

  • polle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Win10 ending, copilot and this shit. Finally pushed me over. Going to order a new ssd and install mint on my main rig.

      • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I installed Fedora as a dual boot 2 months ago, and I haven’t once booted up Windows in that time. Everything just worked. Now that I feel a bit more confident I’m going to wipe the entire drive and try Fedora Atomic.

      • nul9o9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I kept my Windows drive in my pc when I switched to linux, I wanted to be able to mount it to grab stuff I missed or boot into it incase I needed it.

        I haven’t even mounted it for close to a year.

        • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          4 days ago

          When I rebuilt mine a few months back, I got two drives so I could put windows on one of them, and mounted my old drives for the same reason… I’ve barely touched the old data and the second SSD has not even been formatted yet, and when I do it’ll probably be to give my current system more space

  • Jimmybander@champserver.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I have to use Outlook for work. It is so annoying to have to avoid the one drive attachment option everytime I attach a file to an email. Nobody wants to be forced to deal with that crap.

    • cybermass@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I legit don’t understand why this exists. Why would anyone want a bunch of shit in their OneDrive to have a permanent link?

      Microsoft just loves money at the expense of quality products.

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Give it a go, it was surprisingly not as big an issue as I thought it would be, even for gaming (though not perfect for gaming, I’ve been able to get things working without too much headache at least)

  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I just turned it off as it kept bitching about the storage being full.

    I don’t need you bish, fuck off.

    • retrospectology@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Oohh, that’s a good way to potentially break this. Just download a ton of useless stuff and upload it onto OneDrive. People could make this service really expensive for Microsoft.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    For starters, bulk copying a person’s documents without their approval sounds like mass copyright violation.