It is tax season. The season I am forced to use Windows. Tax programs seem to mandate that I move from Win 10 to Win 11. I've usually left my tax stuff on the "desktop" because it is so handy. OOPS: the Win11 desktop is in OneDrive, i.e. in the Cloud! This is a change, and a very bad one.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 01:23:45PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk wrote:
It is tax season. The season I am forced to use Windows. Tax programs seem to mandate that I move from Win 10 to Win 11.
I've usually left my tax stuff on the "desktop" because it is so handy.
OOPS: the Win11 desktop is in OneDrive, i.e. in the Cloud! This is a change, and a very bad one.
I never liked the desktop as a location for things. It is covered up by windows most of the time making it not handy at all. As for finding somewhere one drive does not want to try to get it's paws on... good luck. -- Len Sorensen
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.
Cant guarantee same on windows 11, only brought it up once to get updates since in installed it, but on multiple windows 10 machines i refused to even set up one drive, it keeps asking me to "complete the setup", an I keep saying "ask me next week". Carey
On 04/28/2026 9:22 PM CDT William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> 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 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 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
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