28 Apr
2026
28 Apr
'26
10:22 p.m.
Did you choose to put your Windows 11's Desktop on OneDrive? Or, does it do that by default, with no option to keep it local? I accidentally put my Windows 10's Desktop on OneDrive. It asked me if I want "online backup", and I said "Yes", believing it would do backup. What it ended up doing is, it moved my Desktop to OneDrive, and replaced local content with links to OneDrive. Imagine my surprise, when I cleaned up OneDrive, and found stuffs were also gone locally. Yeah, I turned off "online backup". On 2026-04-28 13:23, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk wrote:
OOPS: the Win11 desktop is in OneDrive, i.e. in the Cloud! This is a change, and a very bad one.