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[–] henfredemars 134 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My God I hate this. My wife will tell me she’s confused and can’t find any of her documents, and lo and behold the Microsoft somehow enabled OneDrive and either replaced everything on the computer with her account, or moved everything from the computer to God knows where.

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it help to disable onedrive at startup?

[–] henfredemars 24 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen it get turned on all by itself after a feature update. Maybe it can help.

This is her business computer so it needs to be Windows sadly.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

OneDrive is pretty simple and usually replaces the original save locations with ones also backed up online.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 120 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do I look like I know what a OneDrive is?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just want to save my gosh darn word document.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

Cloud storage by Microsoft.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I uninstall One Drive, and every other Microsoft product that they will let me uninstall, as part of my Windows install process. Then I disable anything else that I can. Microsoft is doing everything it can think of to convince me to finally make the switch to Linux.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do it. Earlier this year I was exactly at the point you are now, coming from using Microsoft since MS DOS days. I'm glad I did the switch and haven't looked back since. It was far easier than I thought it would be. If you know how to uninstall Microsoft bloat you can easily learn to use Linux.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm not sure that all of the tools that I use will run in Linux. I'm using Visual Studio to write Great Cow BASIC. I'll probably give it a try and see what happens. I have several pieces of software that are quite old (AutoCAD 2001, PhotoShop CS4, etc) that I keep around because they aren't the new subscription based everything you produce is ours bullshit. I guess I could run windows in a VM to run those.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like you're unlucky enough to have just the wrong versions of those software. PS CS4 is rated Bronze on winehq, and AutoCAD 2001 is garbage. Yet 2000 and 2002 are both gold. CS5 is silver, and CS2 and CS6 are both gold

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just my luck. I bought the AutoCAD for a project at work and took the keys with me when I left. I was the only person who ever used it. I became fairly comfortable with it and still use it rarely when I need to design something. The last time I used it was a couple of months ago to design new front step stringers for my parents house.

The PhotoShop I only use for producing all white versions of my customer's logos with transparent backgrounds for presentations wit cover slides with dark backgrounds. I got hat through work as well. I was having sex with a woman from the creative department who would request the disks and keys and let me copy them. Given that I had very limited use for it I never bothered to try to update it after I left and we stopped havign sex.

Maybe I cuold find someone to have sex with for PS CS 6.

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gimp might be able to perform that little logo-transformation favour for you libre of charge, but at least give it a call after for heaven's sake.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have Gimp installed on my notebook. I struggled to get started. I guess I should watch a tutorial video or something.

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Gimp believes in you and loves you in a non clingy way.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I occasionally use Autodesk Inventor and Photoshop still. I've got a Windows 10 LTSC virtual machine set up just for that. I don't even let it connect to the internet. Any file I need to work on in there I just drag and drop them in and out of the VM. It's like keeping a pet Windows that you can use whenever you need it but it's kept confined in a vivarium so it cannot wander into your house and crap some bloatware on your carpet.

Another amusing analogy I have for it is that I'm keeping it locked in the Matrix. It thinks it's enjoying a big juicy steak but really it's locked up in a virtual world so it can be used by me without ever being able to seeing or affecting the outside world.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I do that with Linux. I have a couple of Linux VMs that I use for one thing or another. Maybe it's time to bring Linux forward and push Windows into a VM.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Visual Studio (not Code) does not run on Linux, a fact about which I am a little bit angry since Malware-Dev has not published his devkit for Space Engineers ingame scripts for anything else. I've heard that Photoshop works in Wine now although I've not had a chance to try it myself. Linux works for 99% of people nowadays, but I think it's safe to say just from this thread that you are not 99% of people.

I'd still suggest giving it a shot, though, if for no other reason than to see if you can. All else fails, as you say, you could run a VM. The tooling for that is pretty solid nowadays since for a while it was the only way to game on Linux, doubly so now that Nvidia drivers let you demonstrate the power of flex tape by sawing your GPU in half and give half to the virtual machine (it creates two virtual PCIe devices which appear to the Linux host to be entirely separate GPUs, each with a fixed portion of the available VRAM -- previously the only way to get 3D acceleration in a VM was to buy two graphics cards and give one to Windows). I've not had to do it in a while so it may have gotten better, but last I tried, it was a M A S S I V E pain in the backside to set up but after that it was smooth sailing.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do it bro, I switched 5 years ago after being too fed up with windows, and I've never looked back

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have run Linux on servers and I even have one machine running Linux as a workstation but I'm very confortable in Windows. I've been with Microsoft since the MS-DOS 3 days.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know your use case, but I'm less skilled with computers than you (I'm currently trying to build my first ever home server as a hobby) and i can use it easy.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm my sure that all of the tools that I use will run in Linux. I'm using Visual Studio to write Great Cow BASIC. I'll probably give it a try and see what happens. I have several pieces of software that are quite old (AutoCAD 2001, PhotoShop CS4, etc) that I keep around because they aren't the new subscription based everything you produce is ours bullshit. I guess I could run windows in a VM to run those.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Worth a shot, you can always dual boot to try it out to start with 🙂

[–] shikitohno@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You'll only get more comfortable with Linux once you get on it .

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

"Windows, stop syncing my damn files to OneDrive."

"Copy that, no more syncing. Just give us a moment to delete the unnecessary copies."

"Great."

"Ok, all done. All the local data is gone and now only the OneDrive backup exists."

"Wait no stop"

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I remember how it bitched I didn't have enough room because it was trying to clone my fucking documents folder without being asked.

And heaven forbid actually using it. I stored work files on a paid account and it cloned it locally on my laptop nearly killing my 500gb hard drive I the process. Again, unprompted. It's such a garbage system.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I uninstalled this crap the moment I saw it appear in Windows Explorer. I never knew it was that bad. It was the rule back when I was still using Windows. Whatever Windows Update installed without my consent, it got deleted immediately.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do I look like I know what a cloud is?!

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my data! I don't know you!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Excellent shirt idea tbh

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 44 points 1 year ago

"Your OneDrive is now full..."

Thanks, Microsoft, how about you use my 1TB SSD instead.

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] Rognaut@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, I almost forgot how bad of a company Microsoft has become.

Thanks for the reminder.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh, wdym "has become"? MS was wild in the 90s.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It's gone from overt to insidious.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago
[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was setting up my new computer late last year, OneDrive wanted to sync everything in my user folders to OneDrive. No idea why. I knew it'd never fit everything anyway. To get it to stop, I had to create a brand new user account without a Microsoft account attached, move everything over to the new account, and delete the old account.

Now, I only have OneDrive sync my college stuff (homework, projects, notes, PowerPoints, etc.). Nothing else syncs to OneDrive. I backup my PC using a program called Backblaze instead.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] asphalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Can someone link that link?

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

IIRC, there is a setting to just make it open an Explorer window every time and skip all the crap. I'm on my phone, so I don't want to look for it rn, but it's only a few clicks.

(It might just skip the OneDrive step; I don't have documents this way often, so I can't recall off the top of my head.)

Ironically, I just passed Explorer to save to a OneDrive folder, but it's faster and easier to get to the right spot with a classic Explorer "save as" window.