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You know whats cool? Office programs like excel and word have an 'autosave toggle', and you know what it does? "Please log into one drive to enable autosave".
Thats right, you cant have a local autosave, you MUST be saving to one drive.
Cool, thanks, no.
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Ctrl+S
Fuck M$ 365, good old Office 2019.
Also fuck Teams, but that is a whole different story.
Getting OneDrive uninstalled fully is a nightmare. I got rid of it but it was still trying to sync. Like wtfff
Just install Linux at this point.
It was for a client at work, so I couldn't. I don't know how to install Linux, either. I'm going to try once I get a charger for my old laptop. It isn't a big priority though. I've been playing around with my Steamdeck in desktop mode to try to learn some Linux stuff and it's been going okay.
Remember ladies and gents. It's not cloud storage it's someone else's computer.
"Let's finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don't need!)"
I do feel a bit like a Hank Hill when I rant about this or any other newer, unwelcome features. No, Outlook, I don't want you to finish my sentences, you are wrong 100% of the time and I'd rather do it myself gosh dang it.
I want to save to onedrive, the one drive on my computer.
YOU HAVE A VIRUS!!
Download NORTON NOW!!!
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OneDrive usurping my folders and data, siphoning it to their servers without my permission (just like a virus) is exactly why I switched to Linux. It’s such a breath of fresh air not feeling like every update is trying to monetize and enshittify my computer more
For me it was being able to fully disable co-pilot and make sure that it stayed disabled. I asked it how to turn itself off and it hallucinated options that didn't exist.
Honestly OneDrive replacing the local folders is what made me fully switch to Linux
auto-enabling that is, perhaps, the single most annoying thing they've done to windows. like you don't even get a fucking choice when they do it, they just take your data.... which adds 'most frightening thing done' as well.
and onedrive is also configured to cloud-first. you don't even have your files on your hardware unless you go back and access them again (so they're re-downloaded) or reconfigure onedrive to put them all back.
It seriously pissed me off so much. Like how could I possibly trust the OS after that? Literally just like a virus! Windows has pissed me off for a solid decade but that was waaay too far over the line for me to shrug it off yet again
My wife made a giant folder called garbage she shoves stuff that she copied out of Windows to put in OneDrive so it can’t fit her files when it decides to randomly start uploading again.
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Switch to Linux, this shit doesn't happen unless you set it up.
Shit doesn't happen to me on Windows. Killed One Drive, done.
Been wondering if the hassle is from pre-installed versions vs. the "got my own ISO" version straight from M$. I get very few of the Windows complaints I see when I wipe it to factory and install vanilla Windows. Which anyone using Windows should do on a new machine.
Recently had to deal with creating a Windows 11 installation for someone else. I used a self-downloaded ISO and Rufus, and it still tried to pull that crap. OneDrive will create a system notification offering to enable it, and it's similar enough to the various annoying Windows onboarding notifications that some people will accidentally click the confirmation thinking it's the dismiss button.
I was moderately annoyed at the amount of stuff I had to either disable or uninstall when I got my Win 11 laptop, including One Drive, and getting rid of the news recommendations etc, but it's definitely less hassle than installing a new OS.
Installing a new OS is not a hassle at all on this day and age. If you can click buttons with a mouse and read at least at a 6th grade level to follow instructions, you can install an OS.
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This happened on my work computer and fucked up a lot of software.
You have a house?
Step 1: Hide in a rich person's mansion.
Step 2: Wait 21 years.
Step 3: Claim Adverse Posession. 😎
Do I look like I know what a jay peg is?
Also yes this is crazy. I would recommend installing Linux to fix this issue.
I love my computer so much more since I switched to Linux
"And for the love of god stop letting programs put their crap here"
Quick vent. My job introduced OneDrive and cloud shit through Microsoft. Yeah. I still have to tell my computer to save on itself. I'm not using OneDrive.
I hear my coworkers bitch about it all the time. It's not syncing. I can't save or change this or that. I can't find it when I'm trying to open it. Why is this green or yellow? What's up with this check? They always ask me for help because I'm the younger one that knows more about computers. I respond that I don't do cloud shit. I want to know where my info is, but they keep on wanting me to figure it out for them.
I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.
I just disable it on system boot. Company hates that I'm not using OneDrive...
I'll throw crap in SharePoint, but I also won't use that dogshit 'service' either.
I don't want people touching my reports. It's my shit. View only.
I absolutely hate OneDrive and similarly to you would go out of my way to save on my device for work. We had to upgrade to win11 recently and now all my documents, pictures, etc automatically redirect to OneDrive.... :| this is an "improvement" according to them.
Also the amount of copilot that's being pushed on us. I know AI can do lots of things but holy God let me read my own fucking emails.
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I would fill that shit with porn movies and then disconnected from it. Let them figure it out!
OneDrive to rule them all, OneDrive to subscribe them
OneDrive to pester them all and in the darkness sync them
In the land of Microsoft, where the data lies.
I extremely don't want to save on my computer, though.
The problem with OneDrive isn't that it's a cloud service. I willingly use cloud services and other forms of remote storage all the time.
The problem with OneDrive is it doesn't work and MS's response to that is to try to embed it into the OS, rather than fix it. I have paid good money to do what OneDrive is trying to do, just properly.
One Drive works fine 98% of the time. But the 2% of the time it doesn't can make a huge mess. I've lost an entire days worth of work on an Excel workbook due to auto save issues and it's happened more than once. The last time it happened was the last straw. That's when I switched back to an SMB share.
Yeah, that's the problem with "works well 98% of the time". It's fine for a random bug in a videogame where maybe you clip into the floor a bit. When it comes to important files, "losing your work 2% of the time" is what you call not being functional.
Google Drive is a better solution, you save it to your hard drive, and it's also in the cloud automatically.
It is, which is insane, considering the lenghts to which MS goes to integrate OD right at the OS level.
Either way, as with all office software it's not generally up to you which one to use and I end up using both. It's just that OD has a much higher chance to randomly decide the project I've been working on for days has never existed.
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