Microsoft needs to retire the klunky SharePoint ecosystem and start over like they did with IE -> Edge. That was great. Repeat that win.
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Dear @onedrive product team, I ran the latest update and your app turned "Files On-Demand" back on *without my permission*, deleting 114 GIGABYTES of data off my local drive, which I'm now re-syncing. Thanks so much for ruining my Sunday. xoxo.
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UPDATE: MS support confirms the preference was removed. Feature is enabled by default; no way to turn off. Redownloading entire folder doesn't work. In order to restore files they deleted without my knowledge or permission, I have to click each one individually.
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Isn't the primary purpose of the @onedrive app to provide a BACKUP of files? Sure there are other use cases, but I've got plenty of hard drive space. Surely there are a great many other users who don't want Microsoft carelessly deleting their files.
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Replying to @jasonhuck @onedrive
Wow, that is a horrible UX fail. Somewhere in Redmond, there’s a product team that clearly doesn’t use their own product. Do they offer an API? If so, a script may be able to restore your files. I had to do something similar with Dropbox because of their dumb limits.

Feb 1, 2022 · 8:36 PM UTC

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Replying to @bilcorry @onedrive
Although I can't tell it to download a whole folder at once, I tried copying a folder to another location, and it downloaded the whole folder to do that, so I guess after work today I will copy the entire 114GB parent folder, since OneDrive is not safe to use.
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Agreed. Perhaps it is a way to ensure their customers do not cancel their subscription, since Microsoft now has the only copy of your files. In another context, it would be labeled ‘ransomware’.
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