Thereβs advantages to saving documents to the cloud for backups.
Severely limiting that space by default and then preventing you from saving files when it runs out is horseshit. Half the computer problems Iβve fixed recently are all caused by OneDrive running out of space.
My sister wanted to know why her Sims saves were disappearing. Turns out OneDrive was full and the saves were being backed up to it. No space = no more saving apparently.
Because they know most people wonβt move to Linux. Most people will stick with whatever absolute garbage they know and will just be annoyed when things continue to degrade, but they wonβt leave.
On the other hand saves shouldnβt be saved into fucking documents folder in the first place. Or it shouldnβt be used by any other program unless explicitly allowed to. The only time I see people actually using Documents folder according to its purpose is at work.
Honestly this practice comes down to Windows never standardizing a location for user generated files related to a program. We might finally be there with appdata but even that is poorly standardized (what goes into ~/appdata/roaming/ vs ~/appdata/local/ etc.) and most backup software ignores despite game saves being very important. My Saved Games still exists but itβs more surprising when a game actually uses it than anything. And of course really old software would just store the saves right next to the install files, therefore requiring the program to have admin access, and running everything as admin is always a great idea.
Well if you fill up the space you pay for⦠What is OneDrive supposed to do if you try to add more files? How would it pick which ones to upload to the cloud and which ones not to? It would be pretty annoying if it just let you keep adding data locally but stopped uploading it imo.
It should stop uploading new files, and visibly notify the user that their cloud storage is full.
It should not start silently deleting your data after you save something, especially because OneDrive likes to βreplaceβ your Documents folder as it were.
Imagine you work really hard on some important document, save it, and then OneDrive lovingly deletes it for you with no way to get it back because you ran out of cloud storage. Instead of, you know, just keeping it stored on your local storage and telling you it canβt upload it?
Because thatβs what it does now. Just deletes your stuff. OneDrive loses you more files than it saves. Terrible product and always the first thing I uninstall.
Iβm gonna need a source for that.
Iβm really sceptical that OneDrive syncs your documents, deletes them from your computer and then deletes them from OneDrive. That sounds bizarre.