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OneDrive deleted my files!

Literally. I open up my terminal and try to cd Desktop only to be told that no such file exists. I thought for sure everyone this was happening to was just not reading something correctly and were foolish. Nope! It literally began deleting my files.

Edit 2: Even once it’s done and you have them locally and not “on demand”, the Desktop is in ~/OneDrive/Desktop instead of ~/Desktop. See this helpful comment.

It looks like there might be a way to sort of disable Files on Demand but it looks like it won’t let me do it until it’s done uploading? I’ll post updates.

Not to be dramatic, but I’m really going through it. My mouse logitech mouse is suddenly chattering really bad and double clicking everything. Also while Steam refuses to let me disable auto updates for all games in any sort of easy way. And DDG seems intent on only showing me results related to launching games without updating (as opposed to merely disabling auto updates until I launch). The chatter fixer I found for my mouse does not work and the other requires some logitech program to even try to use. (The repo doesn’t mention the name.) This is awful. When it rains it pours, I guess. Literally can’t even high light this text to wrap it in a spoiler. This is fucking stupid.

Context: My parents have a family plan for Microsoft 365 they added me too and it has 1 TB of storage I can use. I wouldn’t have turned it on otherwise.

Edit: My desktop background has literally vanished and turned solid black.

DO NOT ENABLE ONE DRIVE.

bassomitron ,

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

Omgboom ,

fuck OneDrive and SharePoint online forever. That migration sounds fucking terrible lol, we just got done doing something similar although much lower scale. The character limit for sure was a huge headache, so is the 100,000 file limit.

ArchAengelus ,

I feel your pain man. Our university of 40k people did the same thing “from on high” and we ran into the same problems in our lab. We only had 4 million files to move into a Teams share. Which, btw, takes about 5 weeks to “sync” to OneDrive, which is how we were expected to replace our workflow instead of a shared network storage drive our lab owned

q_q

30p87 ,

Also, don’t use Windows.

Sparky ,
@Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Jeez how long did it take to upload that 100tb? I’ve had files 50gb in size that have taken hours because of their 30-100mbps upload speed.

Omgboom ,

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

Nougat , (edited )

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

JackbyDev OP ,

Oh my god, you’re right. Thank you! You just saved me a lot of stress. Because it finally finished and I selected to keep my files locally but the desktop was still “gone.”

There are still some other weird things going on but they’re minor. My desktop background is just solid black instead of the image I was using and none of the icons on my desktop have the little arrow thing saying they’re shortcuts.

Nougat ,

Desktop background (or other theme stuff) - easiest way is to just reset that to what you want.

The arrow overlay on .lnk files, you could check regedit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer for a "Shell Icons" key ("subfolder"), which should only be there if it was added manually, but I'd be interested in what it was if it was there.

You could also try rebuilding the icon cache.

I have to think that both of these have something to do with the system looking in the "old" place for the desktop background image and the icon cache, and not finding them there.

KazuyaDarklight ,
@KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world avatar

Background is probably black because it’s still pointed at the old, non-onedrive, path that no longer leads anywhere.

JackbyDev OP ,

Windows: I will move this folder because I feel like it

Also Windows: Oh no bro! Where’s the file I was pointing at???

dgriffith ,

Windows: “All your files are exactly where you left them.”

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Windows: “All your files are exactly where you left I moved them.”

dalekcaan ,

I have altered the file path. Pray I don’t alter it further.

Fubarberry ,
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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.

JackbyDev OP ,

Ooooh, this might be a great workaround. If I launch a game does it override this to download the update immediately?

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m not sure to be honest.

Davel23 ,

If you launch a game through Steam and there's an update available for it, then Steam will force the update before it will run the game. Some games can be run by navigating to its install directory and running the executable directly, that should bypass any updates but will not work for all games.

BombOmOm ,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

Some games also have beta channels that are just the past versions of the game. Weather this exists or not is completely up to the game publisher though. I mostly see it in games that have active mod communities, so they want to let you lock down your version so your mod pack doesn’t break suddenly.

julianh ,

You can also use offline mode.

JackbyDev OP ,

Too fiddly. I don’t want to constantly enable and disable it. Thank you though.

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