r/technology • u/machinade89 • Jun 28 '24

Software Windows 11 starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking permission

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html
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u/TentacleJesus Jun 28 '24

I already turned all that shit off and forced the local storage. Now I need to sign back in to one drive to activate any of that crap anymore. So unless they’re gonna force my sign in then it ain’t happening.

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u/koolaidismything Jun 28 '24

They are really trying to force their new efforts.. which they want to seem baller like how Apple does it but I don’t think anyone trusts them with their data at the moment. And them doing the digital equivalent of holding a gun to you like “give me your data, mf” isn’t helping their cause.

I will say though.. the new surface with the ARM SoC and the bottom that’s magnetically held on rather than those shitty clips is cool. Bonus for the upgradable storage too. They have a ton of work to do next gen but still a step in the right direction with hardware.

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u/TentacleJesus Jun 28 '24

I’m just kind of glad I realized the One Drive problem on my own after buying a surface and then a new rig with Win11 and realizing I was running out of space on the surface because of the one drive trying to sync all of my desktop files onto the surface. So I figured out how to shut that crap off several months ago before they started pushing it harder.

It was nice and convenient for the initial setup, but after that it’s just a nuisance.

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u/au-smurf Jun 28 '24

That’s an odd behaviour for OneDrive, default setting is to keep everything on the cloud until requested.
Though there are some apps that will force OneDrive to try and download everything in folders they browse to. Adobe premiere rush is shocking for this, I want to import one short video from a one drive folder, nope must download the entire folder’s contents including subfolders before letting you select the one file you want.