Otherwise, just save your docs in your normal user directory.
I thought the implication of “disabling” OneDrive was exactly that. This guy doesn’t want to use it at all and it keeps throwing errors anyway. But I don’t use Windows and never touched OneDrive when I did so I could be wrong.
It just… sounds a lot like Microsoft is all, so a lot of people relate to it. It’s not just Microsoft of course, it’s any enshittified tech company that’s been around too long - they have too many mouths to feed and require a constant ever-increasing stream of Number Go Up which leads to shit behavior like this. It’s designed to hassle users into using their subscription services whether they like it or not.
I was just with some out of town friends this weekend and telling them how I don’t use any cloud services at all and they were just stunned “how do you do your pictures then? We have to pay for extra space!!” and I’m like “I… back things up in 3 places manually once or twice a year?” It didn’t compute. People are largely captured, this shit behavior works and that’s why they do it.
I thought the implication of “disabling” OneDrive was exactly that.
One drive creates a local directory that you can save files in, and all the files in that directory are synced to cloud storage. You can free up storage by removing it locally and only storing it on the cloud, and you can pull files from the cloud to use locally, so you can access the same files from any device you log into. But you dont have to save your files there where they are synced. You can save them in normal local directories instead.
Disabling one drive disables the sync functionality, so saving files in the one drive directory are only stored locally and you cant pull or even see non-local files or updates to those files from the cloud. But that doesn’t disable the login requirement to access that directory because it is still tied to a specific Microsoft account, not the local device account. So one could use the one drive directory as a password protected directory to prevent access from other users (though there are much better ways to do that). But if that is not the goal, there is no reason to log in to one drive or its directory at all. In fact, it could be uninstalled altogether and then everything will just be a normal directory.
This guy doesn’t want to use it at all and it keeps throwing errors anyway.
Then he can uninstall it, unless his work computer admits dont allow it. Dont get me wrong, it was exhibiting fucky behavior, and Microsoft is very often “helpful” in ways most antithetical to the word, but the fix for software you dont use is always the same. Uninstall.
Not encrypted locally (by default). Only on the cloud. The files that are stored locally can be recovered without your account. Files that you have freed up or files synced from other devices that your haven’t downloaded to this one are not accessible without logging in and accessing the cloud.
The software that you don’t open yourself shouldn’t behave like that, and “just uninstall it” isn’t an appropriate answer here. It shouldn’t be normalised, it should be ridiculed and criticized.
I thought the implication of “disabling” OneDrive was exactly that. This guy doesn’t want to use it at all and it keeps throwing errors anyway. But I don’t use Windows and never touched OneDrive when I did so I could be wrong.
It just… sounds a lot like Microsoft is all, so a lot of people relate to it. It’s not just Microsoft of course, it’s any enshittified tech company that’s been around too long - they have too many mouths to feed and require a constant ever-increasing stream of Number Go Up which leads to shit behavior like this. It’s designed to hassle users into using their subscription services whether they like it or not.
I was just with some out of town friends this weekend and telling them how I don’t use any cloud services at all and they were just stunned “how do you do your pictures then? We have to pay for extra space!!” and I’m like “I… back things up in 3 places manually once or twice a year?” It didn’t compute. People are largely captured, this shit behavior works and that’s why they do it.
One drive creates a local directory that you can save files in, and all the files in that directory are synced to cloud storage. You can free up storage by removing it locally and only storing it on the cloud, and you can pull files from the cloud to use locally, so you can access the same files from any device you log into. But you dont have to save your files there where they are synced. You can save them in normal local directories instead.
Disabling one drive disables the sync functionality, so saving files in the one drive directory are only stored locally and you cant pull or even see non-local files or updates to those files from the cloud. But that doesn’t disable the login requirement to access that directory because it is still tied to a specific Microsoft account, not the local device account. So one could use the one drive directory as a password protected directory to prevent access from other users (though there are much better ways to do that). But if that is not the goal, there is no reason to log in to one drive or its directory at all. In fact, it could be uninstalled altogether and then everything will just be a normal directory.
Then he can uninstall it, unless his work computer admits dont allow it. Dont get me wrong, it was exhibiting fucky behavior, and Microsoft is very often “helpful” in ways most antithetical to the word, but the fix for software you dont use is always the same. Uninstall.
Are the files on disk encrypted? Can you recover them without logging in your account?
Not encrypted locally (by default). Only on the cloud. The files that are stored locally can be recovered without your account. Files that you have freed up or files synced from other devices that your haven’t downloaded to this one are not accessible without logging in and accessing the cloud.
The software that you don’t open yourself shouldn’t behave like that, and “just uninstall it” isn’t an appropriate answer here. It shouldn’t be normalised, it should be ridiculed and criticized.
Bloatware has been an annoying problem for decades. It’s not a new problem.
Yeah, it absolutely isn’t