You can see their strategy at work here.
It is possible to keep individual files on the local hard drive with different settings (that in my experience never seem to stick past updates).
The default, though, is to take everything on your computer off of your computer, put it into the cloud (their computer), and recommend you pick and choose which ones stay on your computer. In essence, they want you to think of your computer as secondary to their computer. An extension of it.
There is no “your computer”, it’s just the computer you happen to be logged into at the moment.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re supposed to uncheck the save storage space and download files as you use them option.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re supposed to remove windows
seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 1 week ago
Ah yes, the classic Microsoft “what you really want is hidden behind a checkbox, otherwise you’ll get shit”.
PopShark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They may have actually been inspired by Apple lmao (or maybe the other way around)
The_v@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They made it the default option for businesses that routinely buy computers with less local storage than their users need. Pretty much every company I have worked for.
They then pushed it out hard into the consumer market when SSD came out and the average storage space on lower end models dropped by 75%.
I see why they did it, how they did it was in usual Microsoft fashion, idiotic.
It’s sort of their pattern.
Introduce new changes.
Screw it up royalty.
Fix the features that are salvageable and revert most of the remaining except: Double down on the shitty ones that they think will make them more money.
Rinse and Repeat
HC4L@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This. Files uploaded locally should automatically be synced though.