10-17-2025, 02:32 PM
Yeah, screw OneDrive, and shame on Microsoft for being so heavy-handed. Now they're going to prevent running Windows 11 without a Microsoft account? Will OneDrive be enabled by default? It's almost like they WANT to push their smartest users onto Linux or Mac.
The best advice to anyone is to disable the automatic OneDrive backups before you do anything else - that restores your folder locations and stops the ridiculous nagging. It still mirrors whatever is under the OneDrive folder, but at least you now have control over what gets saved to the cloud.
One other thing - Steve said it moved his files to the cloud but not locally. You can control that by right-clicking on a file and clicking "always keep file on this computer". Or you can click "free up space" which will maintain a copy in the cloud but locally you just have a pointer (which you can download locally as needed).
The best advice to anyone is to disable the automatic OneDrive backups before you do anything else - that restores your folder locations and stops the ridiculous nagging. It still mirrors whatever is under the OneDrive folder, but at least you now have control over what gets saved to the cloud.
One other thing - Steve said it moved his files to the cloud but not locally. You can control that by right-clicking on a file and clicking "always keep file on this computer". Or you can click "free up space" which will maintain a copy in the cloud but locally you just have a pointer (which you can download locally as needed).