Dammit OneDrive

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.
- Why do you continue to use software that abuses you? Try LibreOffice or even Google.
  
  Some of us have to use Windows at work. It's awful.
  I know a few people were given Macs on request, I wonder if I could get a Linux machine... Everything we do is web based or on a remote desktop.

OneDrive and all of M365 is much nicer on Linux. It’s all just webpages that I use when I need them (pretty regularly) but that don’t interfere with anything else going on with my system.

I want to save to onedrive, the one drive on my computer.
- YOU HAVE A VIRUS!!
  Download NORTON NOW!!!
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- don't save everything on root.
  
  You mean / or /root?

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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Download ISO from M$, wipe and install, uninstall One Drive, done. Betting you got fucked using the Dell or HP or whatever factory install.
  Only enshittification I see is a single sentence on my lock screen. Don't care, used a Windows crack, paid nothing.
- You can just uninstall it, you do realise that right? Making Onedrive fuck off and stay fucked off is pretty easy to do.
- Snaps....
  
  No one forces you to use Snaps or a distro that enforces Snaps.
  
  I suppose Ubuntu could count as an exception…
  Luckily there are plenty of choices, Fedora is my personal fav

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.
  
  This seems to be the answer to all tech problems on Lemmy
  
  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.

Usually when I see the same meme reposted over and over, I start to downvote. But not this one. This one always gets an upvote from me.

Remember ladies and gents. It's not cloud storage it's someone else's computer.

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.

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.
- LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX
  
  You've got the right idea :)
  
  Penguin, penguin ...
- I love my computer so much more since I switched to Linux

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.
- It also doesn't save to one drive unless you set it up.
- Some people have jobs.
  
  Yeah, people who know how to use Linux

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.
- I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.
  Not necessarily. Cloud storage is great for off-site backups and collaborative working on projects, but Onedrive, 365 and the rest of the Microsoft stuff is the problem. It's clunky, overloaded and generally a pain in the ass to manage. It is successful mostly because everyone already works with Microsoft stuff, especially their office suite, and Microsoft makes it really annoying (and in some places difficult) to go around it.
  At my last job I had to implement and manage a lot of 365 and Sharepoint and I find my private Nextcloud more comfortable (and there are hosters who offer Nextcloud as a partially managed service so that in a company environment you'd mostly just need to administer users and small, easy stuff). If for usability alone I'd put Google's cloud services and collaborative office environment before Microsoft's (they're still both shitty megacorps and I recommend staying away from both, though).

"Let's finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don't need!)"

How, exactly, should you have seen this coming? Elaborate on your thoughts.

"And for the love of god stop letting programs put their crap here"

You want to be in control of your data? Silly human…

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. 😎

As annoying as it is being set this way by default, it's easily avoided by right clicking on the user folder to move ( documents|desktop|video|etc) folders in File Explorer -> Properties -> Location tab.
Then either: Type in: C:\usersyour current user]\Documents (or which ever user folder being changed)
Or
Click Move and browse to and select the local folder you want to use.
Click apply, it will ask you if you want to move contents from the original location as well.
Click yes, and now your user folders will be and will stay local. I haven't had any issues since and have had that set for years on my windows PCs.

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.

I would fill that shit with porn movies and then disconnected from it. Let them figure it out!

Local Group Policies are your friend:
https://www.live2tech.com/how-to-disable-onedrive-windows-11-a-step-by-step-guide/
- But Linux is easier!!!
  "You still have to config stuff."
  NOOO! EASIER!!!
  Use a standard ISO instead of the crap that comes from the manufacturer, SO much better.

Doo eh loauk like I kno whaaut "The Cloud" is?
I jast want a picture ofa ghatdang hawtdog

I saw this shit coming twenty years ago.

Dale Gribble was right has been one of my most dominant shower thoughts for about the last decade.

Onedrive is the love baby of Webdav and ftps , born with dysentery because of life in a piss poor country. The humane thing to do… well, you know.

Okay but why Cat Tail PhilosophY?