OneDrive is literally built on fucked tech from the get go and Microsoft initially even pointed out in its online documentation that it is NOT a backup solution, but just a way to enable cloud sharing of documents to access them from anywhere. Their higher-ups decided to make it into something it was never originally intended to be, which is why it is constantly a disaster with people losing documents due to sync problems.

Sorry for the rant, I just fucking hate OneDrive with a deep passion due to the higher leadership at my work forcing us to shutdown our local file shares and making our entire org migrate all our data to SharePoint Online. It has been a miserable transition and I'm in charge of migrating over 100TB and tens of millions of files from over 30 departments. Let me just say SPO is NOT a fileshare solution, and despite me pointing this out countless times it has fallen on deaf ears. Everyone hates it and its limitations are insane (e.g. no more than 100,000 files per document library, 400 character limit for file paths including the base URL, etc). And on top of that all, we have warned customers countless times NOT to sync their OneDrives to any document library or they WILL have problems. Do they listen? Of fucking course they don't. We've had endless tickets and the migration isn't even complete yet.

Tldr; fuck OneDrive and fuck SharePoint Online.

/Endrant

Source

Was a computer repair tech until a few months ago. About 6 months ago this older guy brought in his laptop because he had been hacked and they had changed his password. Was able to change the password to something new using some fancy tools but upon getting in all his files were still missing. Turns out OneDrive was on and ALL of his important files were only on OneDrive and not the computer. Well, Microsoft had changed his password when the hackers changed his computer password so he was locked out and Microsoft didn't believe he owned the account anymore since he didn't know the password. After weeks of calls he just gave up trying to get his stuff back.

Fuck OneDrive.

I am aware that on a Windows machine, turning on a OneDrive subscription (or at least an E5 license, is where I'm very specifically talking about), certain folders get moved from c:\users\[username] into c:\users\[username]\OneDrive. Then OneDrive syncs those locations up to 365.

If you just open cmd (not as admin), it will put you at c:\users\[username] and then if you just cd desktop ... yeah, that's empy now. dir in c:\users\[username] and I bet you'll find a OneDrive folder.

Of note, the default user folder paths that get changed are \Attachments \Desktop \Documents \Pictures. \Downloads stays at c:\users\[username]\downloads

Big thanks to Microsoft for their efforts to advertise Linux.

Just an FYI, Windows likely just moved your files from users\[username] to users\[username]\OneDrive instead. When OneDrive sets itself up, it basically grabs all of the relevant folders and moves them into a single “OneDrive” folder. Not a huge issue if you’re setting up the PC for the first time. But if you’ve been using the PC for a while, it’ll break everything because now all of your local files have moved and none of your systems are pointing at the right location anymore. For instance, your desktop is likely black because your image file got moved into that OneDrive folder.

I'm so glad I purged windows from my systems this year.

Go fuck yourself Microsoft.

Clearly user error

For your mouse double click issue, I have a g600 and ran into the same thing. It's due to a teeny tiny copper plate in the switch degrading over time. I'm not confident in my soldering skills to swap out the whole switches, but I was able to buy some new switches for like $5, pop open the little plastic switch box, carefully pull out the little copper plate with tweezers, pop open the switch on my mouse, and carefully replace the little copper plate with the new one. Worked like a charm.

Never use onedrive

If I remember right for steam, you can't disable updates for all games, but you can set some restrictive rules for when it can update. Stuff like it can only download updates for 1 minute monday morning at 3am.

wth are you windows people doing? isn't this just supposed to be some cloud storage?

been unable to login to our auth server today so basically free day at work, thanks crowdstrike

One drive does suck nards, but for your double clicking; logitech has been using shitass switches to detect clicks for a while now. They sooner rather than later fail to click once. Only solution I’ve found is to replace the switches (hard mode), or keep using the logitech mouse I have from 2009.

It’s sucks, but you just gotta go for another brand. Even razer doesn’t have such a rampant double click problem.

Logitech enshitified their dominant market position by cheaping on switches - works for them, they sell more mice (if you don’t put together they’re the source of the problem and it’s not a one-off issue).

I only know about OneDrive for business, but you might check the recycle bin in OneDrive online.

Edit also OneDrive changes the folder where your desktop is mapped to, so you might make sure you are CD'ing to the right location

I just want you to know that I tried to read this comment, got bored because it got technical, (user problem) and scrolled to the bottom to find the very helpful, important part, in giant letters and bolded. And I appreciate you.

In related news, I have had zero issues with my home network drive that is shared to the internet through FTP. Don't use OneDrive unless there's a really compelling reason to do so.

OneDrive is the devil. It symlinks the file structure on Windows and then moves all your photos and such into their chosen directory. If you uninstall it, it makes a half-hearted attempt to move them back, maybe, but will just do a random subset and give up.

After removal, you have to edit registry keys (obscure ones) to break Windows' connection to onedrive\pictures and such, or you end up with two pictures folders in your home dir.

So much more fail I can't even remember right now.

It happened to me once, disabled cloud backup on my documents folder, and onedrive decided if it can't have my folder, no one can

I did get my data back, since onedrive kept it in the rubbish bin or somewhere like that

After that i nuked onedrive from my laptop, and now i use arch btw

Oh wow. My one drive has been contained to it's own file area for ages now. I wish I could remember how I did that.

I did just recently tell Microsoft to kick rocks when they offered to back up my computer though, it wasn't that was it?

Regarding your mouse double clicking, some Reddit users suggest pressing the click button quite hard a few times...

Me signing into active directory

cloud storage is not a backup. This should be engraved on all computers.

one drive is not even "storage" really - it's more of a embryonic car crash waiting for an unwitting pedestrian to step in front.

If for whatever reason any masochists are using onedrive, tthey really need to know about proper backup .

I thought OneDrive was a Windows thing. What's it doing on Linux?

i had the same thing a while back. i thought i disabled onedrive from running on my machine, went to delete some onedrive files because i was "running out of space", and deleted all the user files on my system

I use onedrive and I still hate this shit.

It took me two days to gut OneDrive out of my laptop when I bought it.

Did you delete my files bro?

My mouse logitech mouse is suddenly chattering really bad and double clicking everything

Is is a G903 you using? It's a issue with cheap ass switches if that's the case. I RMAed one and the replacement did it even faster than the first. Gave up on that one.

I only use OneDrive for restic backups of my server since it comes with a whole terabyte with Microsoft 365 Business Basic in addition to a separate 50 GB of storage for email. Which is pretty nice since it means I can get away with wrapping everything under one bill and not having to worry about setting up S3 buckets for calculating data transfer fees.

Other than that, OneDrive is uninstalled from my PC, and I have zero intents of using it otherwise.

DO NOT ENABLE ONE DRIVE

Do not use Windows. That easy.

Literally

Oh. I can stop reading, then.