Confusing and bad UI/UX is… confusing and bad.
We’re all glad you’re a poweruser, anyway, can we maybe have an operating system that doesn’t actively hate and fight the user?
Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Garbage article, but I think what they are saying is if you don’t restore your files from backup before you disable your onedrive backup, then you lose your files.
This sounds like user error.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
underisk@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
If the people in question were choosing to use OneDrive in the first place, I might agree with you. Since MS is forcing this crap on everyone it’s their fault when people lose data to it.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Last time I set up a user account onedrive was not forced. It’s suggested and you had to click a few buttons to turn it on.
I wonder if other apps that do cloud offload work in the same way: disable service and you lose cloud-sync’d content unless you downloaded it ahead of time.
I’m also curious if onedrive prompts you to save/downlod your data first.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
When I went to save a file on my work laptop, it always tried to default to ScumDrive. I had to tell it to save it locally.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That data isn’t the problem. It’s the backed up folders that’s the problem.
underisk@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
My sister’s brand new Windows 11 laptop came with the user data folders replaced by OneDrive and I very seriously doubt she did that intentionally.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
During user profile creation she accepted that option.