I love my jobs implementation of onedrive. It copies files from my hardrive, erases the local copy, and then loses the remote version.
Microsoft ate my homework
I died with this hahahahha
I recently wasted multiple evenings going through this with my partner’s photos on both OneDrive and Google. It was a nightmare, trying to disentangle their systems from the cloud, and delete stuff from the cloud (they were hitting the free quotas, which was causing problems) without also deleting that content locally.
I ended up doing a full backup from the cloud to an external drive and unplugging it just to be sure, then carefully using the awful web interfaces to delete a bunch of photos and videos from the cloud after deactivating all the auto-backup “options”, which is apparently the only way to do it without also wiping your local media. There doesn’t seem to be any way to do it while using the “service” normally on the device; any attempt to delete from the cloud will also delete your local copy.
People have called me paranoid for seeking out and removing/deactivating these “services” with extreme prejudice on my own devices, but this experience was even worse than I’d imagined.
trying to disentangle their systems from the cloud, and delete stuff from the cloud (they were hitting the free quotas, which was causing problems) without also deleting that content locally.
…and that’s Microsoft’s entire game. Get old people to pay more for higher tiers of storage because your mom doesn’t understand why she has no storage left for the family picnic photos.
Linux, people… Linux!
microsoft: hey lets set up onedrive and make it your new documents folder for everything on your computer
also microsoft: oh yeah you only get 15gb unless you pay more but we won’t tell you that and once full you can’t use your documents folder
This sounds like a problem I’m too Linux to understand
I am almost 100% ubuntu, but working in home office and remoting to use my three monitor setup from work (windows) at home is a nightmare. Remmina is the best at the moment and she laggy as, and getting it to use all three screens at work, at home… Nightmare
Yeah, my factory windows install died and refused to boot up, because I spent too long without creating an account or some ransom shit like that…I was sad for a second…then I booted back to Debian as I do every day :))
I’ve never had an account… not sure what weirdness you experienced but I’ve never once been pestered or asked for a login. Infact, the only thing I get is the ‘lets finish setting up windows’ full screen trash, which is just a window and I can alt-f4 to close. It’s been years like that.
But housing it behind a key combination is malicious for the average user.
Would actively fuck apps up because it would register as a file touch and break things that expected unchanged file content
now to be fair, you can organize your onedrive too
I don’t want to.
Undesirables = tech ceos
Windows 11 finally allows you to simply uninstall OneDrive. Before that you had to do weird registry hacks, that often broke something :-/
Almost all the new hires at work save shit to one drive and teams and it’s incredibly annoying to locate anything. Just save it to the dang shared drive.
I remember having a 90$ Android phone that was also loaded with bloatware.
OneDrive: fuck no you’re not doing that shit
My end user had three documents.
- In oneDrive, localised to Spanish
- In oneDrive, still in English
- The actual document folder
Guess where they put all the files that I wanted to be put in /documents?
As soon as I saw that mustache I wanted to get out my knife as well.
