On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:22:57PM -0400, William Park via Talk wrote:
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 believe that is the default if one drive is setup. And it sure likes to encourage setting up one drive.
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".
Yeah not so much a backup as a synched storage space. I guess some people think it is a backup if your local drive died since you could sync from one drive again. Not sure if one drive keeps change history since I have never really bothered to look at it much. -- Len Sorensen