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Literally. I open up my terminal and try to cd Desktop only to be told that no such file exists. I thought for sure everyone this was happening to was just not reading something correctly and were foolish. Nope! It literally began deleting my files.

Edit 2: Even once it's done and you have them locally and not "on demand", the Desktop is in ~/OneDrive/Desktop instead of ~/Desktop. See this helpful comment.

It looks like there might be a way to sort of disable Files on Demand but it looks like it won't let me do it until it's done uploading? I'll post updates.

Not to be dramatic, but I'm really going through it. My mouse logitech mouse is suddenly chattering really bad and double clicking everything. Also while Steam refuses to let me disable auto updates for all games in any sort of easy way. And DDG seems intent on only showing me results related to launching games without updating (as opposed to merely disabling auto updates until I launch). The chatter fixer I found for my mouse does not work and the other requires some logitech program to even try to use. (The repo doesn't mention the name.) This is awful. When it rains it pours, I guess. Literally can't even high light this text to wrap it in a spoiler. This is fucking stupid.

Context: My parents have a family plan for Microsoft 365 they added me too and it has 1 TB of storage I can use. I wouldn't have turned it on otherwise.


Edit: My desktop background has literally vanished and turned solid black.

DO NOT ENABLE ONE DRIVE.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

DO NOT ENABLE ONE DRIVE

Do not use Windows. That easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It took me two days to gut OneDrive out of my laptop when I bought it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OneDrive is the devil. It symlinks the file structure on Windows and then moves all your photos and such into their chosen directory. If you uninstall it, it makes a half-hearted attempt to move them back, maybe, but will just do a random subset and give up.

After removal, you have to edit registry keys (obscure ones) to break Windows' connection to onedrive\pictures and such, or you end up with two pictures folders in your home dir.

So much more fail I can't even remember right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Another brick in the wall

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

i had the same thing a while back. i thought i disabled onedrive from running on my machine, went to delete some onedrive files because i was "running out of space", and deleted all the user files on my system

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

cloud storage is not a backup. This should be engraved on all computers.

one drive is not even "storage" really - it's more of a embryonic car crash waiting for an unwitting pedestrian to step in front.

If for whatever reason any masochists are using onedrive, tthey really need to know about proper backup .

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It happened to me once, disabled cloud backup on my documents folder, and onedrive decided if it can't have my folder, no one can

I did get my data back, since onedrive kept it in the rubbish bin or somewhere like that

After that i nuked onedrive from my laptop, and now i use arch btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I love that last line haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Did you delete my files bro?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I use onedrive and I still hate this shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought OneDrive was a Windows thing. What's it doing on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where did I say it was on Linux? For the record, they do have a Mac client so they might have a Linux one too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it was assumed based on your use of command line and unix-like paths such as ~/Desktop, which do not work in Windows Command Prompt. (Powershell has aliases for unix commands like ls, so unix paths do work there)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It's just easier to type like that lol. That syntax works in Git for Windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Me signing into active directory

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

been unable to login to our auth server today so basically free day at work, thanks crowdstrike

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