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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tuff_wizard@aussie.zone to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/27191517

I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.

I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.

But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.

I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.

I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.

But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.

Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time

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[–] amirbkhan@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You still have an MS account right? Just didn’t renew your subscription? I’m sure your data isn’t truly deleted. Have you opened an MS ticket?

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

hot dangit you are correct. I read somewhere when searching that they trash it pretty quickly.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Good luck, I hope you find your files.

About two years ago, while switching to Linux, I mistakenly formatted one of my hard drives with some semi-important content. I didn't well understand Linux's method of designating drives, got confused, and moved too fast. There was no recovery for me. Every once in a while now, I think, "Hmm, I wonder what happened to that... oh, right."