Windows 10: Testers protest abrupt changes in Windows 10's OneDrive

Yes it does.

On my W10 VM, I can provoke the auto-feedback by clicking on a feature/function multiple times, without doing anything else.
It was a large number of clicks though (20+).

If you have a MS account, you can try to submit feedback/ideas on the website.
Windows - Microsoft Community

 

I only use OneDrive to play with, and Google Drive for that matter. Both are just just to slow and cause delays in booting.

I currently have 8TB of WD MyCloud's for local and personal cloud storage.
I can access them with any device from anywhere, and as NAS drives they don't slow my system down either.

 

"One of my reasons for reinstalling Windows 10 was to get rid of One Drive and anything associated with it. I now have a local account, but I think this prevents me from making to comments to MS about the preview builds."

You're right it does, but I just log into my Microsoft account to do the input and then log out when I'm done.

If you try and input info it will ask you Do you want to log into you Microsoft account and give you a place to enter your password.





Mike

 

On the MS forums, I saw people complaining that doing that changed their W10 from a local account to an online one.

It certainly looked like that was what it was planning to do (when I tried it a few weeks ago) so I bailed.
The title shown in that screenshot certainly implies that's what it will do. *Eek

 

Hi

It does change it from local to your Microsoft account but you can exit it afterwards and switch back to your local account.

I only make comments about once a week so it's not a big deal switching back and forth.

Mike

 

I am going to make a comment here. The Local Account that we are used to, at least some of us, is what we are use to using. I still do use the Local Only account on all of my computers except when beta testing. When I am beta testing there are a lot of things that are directly related to having an MS Account to test with. Do I like all these features, no but I do test them.

So as far as testing I am doing Windows 10 with the MS Account for now. It is easier to give feedback and do some of the other things. It is actually showing me some other ways to accomplish tasks that I only did on a Local Account.

 

I'll take your word for it as I haven't tried it (I know there is a tutorial about doing it in the W8 series). *Smile

MS should "pull their heads in" and fix this.
It makes it unnecessarily difficult to provide feedback. *Mad

The fact that some people (like me) refuse to use an online account is a piece of feedback that has been provided to them for free.
There were a lot of complaints on Eight Forums about it too (hence the tutorial).

There is no reason for MS (or anybody else) to know when I am using my PC.

 

Test as you like computers and operating systems are user dependent
I'll choose the euro versions way and there will be no dominate Microsoft account on it and that's the way it's always been in the u.s. with x-p/ Vista/ win-7 and that's the my bottom line.

Treating onedrive.... as a website and manually uploading and or downloading content when I want too or not *Wink
Cheers.

 

I'm not surprised....

I have about almost 200ish gigs of OneDrive, of which is almost halfway being used. Having my tablet potentially saying I'm out of disk space an hour after installing 10 because of my OneDrive wouldn't impress me. That's how OneDrive used to work when it was SkyDrive and as a separate program in Windows 7; it straight up downloaded the WHOLE shebang onto your SkyDrive directory. That's no good for sure.

It'd be best if we can friggin' selectively upload items to OneDrive from File Explorer. Go to your Documents folder, right click or Share to OneDrive from the Ribbon, that document gets uploaded but not only that, it doesn't copy itself on your OneDrive folder but is shown as a smart file. Clicking on that opens your local document, if changes are made it is reflected on the smart file and the local copy.

If you're not connected to the matrix, you should be expecting to NOT have access to your cloud storage from the get-go.... I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't want to download my whole OneDrive account to my local drive. It doesn't help that what's in my OneDrive folder on my hard drive is almost the whole size of what's on my OneDrive as is.

 

Well, this version of OneDrive (in W10) allows you to select which folders you want synced, but not individual files. I guess it would be relatively simple to move all the data you want syncing into a "syncing area" (folder), and keep non-syncing data out of it (or vice versa). What people are complaining about (and I'm not happy either) is that we have lost the placeholder functionality, for now at least. This was very useful to those who understood how it worked. MS has said they hope eventually to put it back in, but they're not promising to do so for W10 release. In my opinion, it should be available as advanced functionality. It's true that the feature could confuse non-computer-literate users, but for those with Windows tablets or with limited hard disk space, it was a brilliant feature, and also saved a lot of bandwidth.

 

Think this might have been mentioned by someone else, but don't see why they cant just make the online only hidden files

As default these would then not be shown
If someone turns on the option to show hidden files then they would appear and be greyed out and works as now
also have an option in the app like now so you can see all folders and select what to sync

that would cover people who want to see all, only want to see whats offline and also allow people to pick which folders to sync

 

Good idea!

 

Good idea, except what happens when you sync a hidden file to OneDrive...*Party

 

For that I would expect it to do similar to now

If you have hidden files shown and you double click a greyed out one, a local copy is made and then the file just looks like a regular file, it just converts to an offline version

 

100GB!
What sort of Internet speed do you have? *Shock

It would take 300 hours to upload 100GB using our Internet connection.
It would take a day and a half to upload a backup OS image!

That's why I consider the "Cloud" to be basically useless for anything except email.