Bought a new laptop last year. Been working with it for the past several months. Suddenly found out that half my stuff is stored on Microsoft's Onedrive. I didn't ask for that but presumably agreed to it during setup when you have to agree to a half a million things in order to use your new computer.
Now I can't get rid of it.
De-linked Onedrive from my computer, all my stuff disappeared.
Re-linked and it came back.
Went into the Settings for Onedrive and told it I wanted local access to all my files. Not sure if it's doing anything and the Documents, Desktop, and Pictures folders, plus who knows what else, all still show folder path as including OneDrive.
I'm trying to change the settings so that everything is stored on my computer, but I am finding, now, two of each folder, and they have different contents. There's the OneDrive set of folders, which have everything; and there's the plain old users/me folders which don't. The Download folders seem to be the same; the non-OneDrive Pictures folder doesn't even seem to exist; the Documents folders are completely different.
So apparently Microsoft decided to create a cloud file storage structure, barely mentioning it when the customer buys a new computer, which is almost impossible to leave, without losing stuff. This is such BS and now I'm tired of messing with it when I could be doing something productive. So I will walk away, having wasted the last 45 minutes, and start all over again at some future time, wasting even more time.
Thanks Microsoft. Any wonder that people hate you?
