Why handle files? Let big bro Microsoft handle them for you.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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Does this not happen in Europe? Never known OneDrive to be so intrusive.
It's possible that this isn't enabled by default in Europe. I know that Microsoft has some things disabled in Europe in order to comply with local law and moving stuff to OneDrive without asking sounds like it might conflict with the GDPR.
I let my work computer use one drive. It’s not my stuff. I don’t care about privacy or who has access to it or what MS does with it. Plus it’s easier when they force me to another machine.
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On the other hand, a lot of people are learning how important a tested backup strategy is.
...and don't forget re-testing your backups regularily. I had a really good backup strategy on my Loonix machine. Automatic (or it won't be done), tested, fool proof. When I somehow crashed a somewhat complex encrypted LVM array while swapping HDDs against SSDs, I had to recover from backup. Unfortunately I had become a better fool than I was when I set up backup4l. I had changed the compression algo, made a tiny mistate in the config and failed to realize that for six months I had been storing empty backups every day. Outch.
Notifications will go a long way toward helping with that. Check all assumptions, check all exit codes, notify and stop if anything is amiss. I also have my backup script notify on success, with the time it took to back up and the size and delta size (versus the previous backup) of the resulting backup. 99% of errors get caught by the checks and I get a failure notification. But just in case something silently goes wrong, the size of the backup (too big or too small) is another obvious indicator that something went wrong.
I know. I just had become lazy enough to take the daily notification's subject line ("backup4l has run successfully") as evidence that everything was OK. If I had looked inside the bloody mail I'd have notices that the backup's size was 0B all the time because my self-rolled XZ-compression script failed to add data to the archives it "successfully" created. That's what I meant with "re-testing" - I should better have written "re-validate". My unforgiveable fault was not to look directly at the generated archives after changing the compression from bz2 to xz. Which was pretty pointless anyway as it turned out.
Ha, shows you right.
God, people, just get yourselves flash drives or an external drive. Cloud storage is dumb.
You could make either of those options last through your entire lifetime if you care for them properly. But I guess people enjoy the idea of going "huh?" whenever files mysteriously disappear from cloud storage.
While I agree with you, most people don't understand what cloud is and since Microsoft is pushing users to use OneDrive, general user would just turn it on just to get rid of the window.
Exactly. I work with the Elderly and it's been a struggle to a) explain what OneDrive is and b) show the how to locally save because W11 defaults to saving to cloud.
It's an absolute mess and I've gotten at least 3 people to start using Linux, just a little.
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Well, people need to learn to keep their fingers out of random, no cost cloud things. If this learning process involves painful data loss, maybe the lesson sticks better.