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OneDrive is ruining my PC gaming setups | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
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[–] 30p87@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I set up a Windows PC for a friend, and he insisted on using his M$ account (bad decision). That caused the Desktop folder (not Downloads, not Documents, just the Desktop) to be stored in OneDrive. So as I tried to load his old PC's Software hive, to extract the windows key, it crashed the PC. No problem, the original hive was still exported on the Desktop. I just rebooted into the boot stick and tried to load the hive there. After searching for the Desktop folder for 30 minutes, I finally located it in the OneDrive folder. And despite it being there, and taking up space, according to dir, it couldn't be accessed, like wtf?

  • Who wants to share the desktop, but not Downloads etc? In contrast to the other user folders, the desktop is filled with program links that won't even work anywhere else.
  • And why not make it accessible in a live boot? Like, it was obviously accessible to some degree, but not readable somehow? Wtf?
[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In contrast to the other user folders, the desktop is filled with program links that won’t even work anywhere else.

As someone who used to work in IT I wish that was the case. The desktop is a catch-all for basically anything that might momentarily enter a user's field of vision.

Application shortcuts, URL shortcuts, broken application and URL shortcuts, PDFs, images, a copy of their child's baby album, a folder that's just called "stuff" where all their actual work is saved, seven different copies of the same recipe for homemade pasta sauce, six empty files named "New Text Document", and a recycle bin full of things too important to delete.

But you can't put anything anywhere else, because they "have a system."

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I feel attacked. Only i do clear my recycle bin frequently

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Don't forget loose .exes

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

Your mistake was trying to do literally anything yourself. Just sit down and let daddy Microsoft take care of everything for you.