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• Escape from the clutches of OneDrive

  Posted on July 8, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Saying that Microsoft pushes OneDrive on customers is putting it mildly.

  It’s more like ramming OneDrive down the throats of customers by means of all those many direct and passive-aggressive tricks.

  I’ll explain how OneDrive, as well as other cloud and email stores, is reorienting how we think about computer storage. I’ll discuss how Windows changes when OneDrive is enabled, and how to undo it. Finally, I’ll show how to get the best of both worlds by making a mixed — cloud and local — file-storage system.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.28.0, 2024-07-08).

  Microsoft 365 Autosave, Local Storage, Newsletters, OneDrive, OneDrive Settings, Sync and Backup, Windows Libraries

• OneDrive and File Explorer

  Posted on June 17, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.25 • 2024-06-17

  WINDOWS 11

  

  By Will Fastie

  Things are not going so well for Windows 11’s new File Explorer.

  But it might be OneDrive’s fault.

  In fact, it’s not really possible to discuss File Explorer without including OneDrive, and vice versa. They are inextricably linked now, a probable source of many problems with synchronization. And there may be a deeper problem, buried somewhere in Windows 11, that is the source of a strange behavior described below.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.25.0, 2024-06-17).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Windows 11 File Explorer, Newsletters, OneDrive, OneDrive Settings, Privacy, Synchronization, User Profile