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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

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