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onedrive is even more intrusive than google drive.
I still haven't forgiven google for hijacking the g:/ drive letter. I was using that letter already!
Not that it matters to me anymore since I use Linux now, but still.
I still prefer them hijacking a particular drive letter to Microsoft's approach of not even using a drive at all
Yes thank you so much Microsoft for making every single employee's file path different when we're trying to send each other the location of files, all of them within unnecessary multiple levels at the start (inevitably resulting in file path too long issues) because the default installation is c users user documents OneDrive
this is actually one way that I see which of my new hires actually read the fucking onboarding document and followed the instructions. One of the first steps is "unlink your OneDrive account and set up a OneDrive folder in the root of one of your drives instead" (with actual instructions on how to do that). two out of three new hires without fail will send me a link in their first week that points to c users. It's a nice litmus test for who is going to be useless and/or a pita