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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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.

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[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

wth are you windows people doing? isn't this just supposed to be some cloud storage?

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It’s roaming profiles plus folder redirection plus offline files.

Among the three it’s guaranteed to be 100% fucked.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

This might be more of a norm that I realized. It seems like Mac does this too with iCloud but hides it better. cd ~/Desktop on Mac doesn't give a big error despite it actually being stored somewhere else. (Also it seems to have more sensible "on demand" settings, or at least explains them better.) I was expecting something more like right click some folders or add them in a menu and they begin getting synced (similar to DropBox).

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