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Seems a bit late to make hoopla about a much more minor infraction. With Onedrive I'm facing the nightmare that you are not allowed to configure it until synci

Seems a bit late to make hoopla about a much more minor infraction. With Onedrive I'm facing the nightmare that you are not allowed to configure it until syncing is in progress. If you pause syncing immediately on install, you're not allowed to change settings to prevent said syncing from happening. I have a mix of personal and business data on there. This has been the case for a few years now but recently got worse. Basically, I don't want my hard drive contaminated with this data when going through customs, that's why I am traveling with a FRESHLY FORMATTED AND REINSTALLED laptop. And what does MS do? Coerce me into all this data's metadata touching down on a drive I have no intention of ever letting touch it. Makes my blood boil. It's a well documented fact these idiots in customs will infringe your privacy for shits and giggles and harass you about stuff that has nothing to do with any valid legal concern. Thanks Microsoft.

tata71 5y ago
> Be HN commenter > Try to avoid own data being on machine > Log into Microsoft cloud account > ???
- iamstupidsimple 5y ago
  I mean, Windows shouldn't be this user-hostile in the first place. Most of it is literally not designed for "HN commenters".
seized 5y ago
This isn't really a product issue. Separate your data properly, uninstall or disable the OneDrive client and use the web version if you need something, use a different product.... Not everything has to bend to your "unique" needs. And it's hard to take your complaint or needs seriously when it starts out with mixing personal and business data.
- silverpepsi 5y ago
  But here's the thing, they literally provide checkboxes for individual directories you want to sync. They've literally designed it to my needs (actually I was trying to simplify, the reality is I don't mix business but personal grades of porn to varying grades of legality, so do you seriously expect me to have multiple personal Office256 accounts for categories of porn????) It's just their default settings went from years of causing data corruption as soon as you try to change the default of everything checked to this new cluster of ghost syncing.

tata71 5y ago

> Be HN commenter > Try to avoid own data being on machine > Log into Microsoft cloud account > ???

iamstupidsimple 5y ago
I mean, Windows shouldn't be this user-hostile in the first place. Most of it is literally not designed for "HN commenters".

seized 5y ago

This isn't really a product issue. Separate your data properly, uninstall or disable the OneDrive client and use the web version if you need something, use a different product.... Not everything has to bend to your "unique" needs. And it's hard to take your complaint or needs seriously when it starts out with mixing personal and business data.

silverpepsi 5y ago
But here's the thing, they literally provide checkboxes for individual directories you want to sync. They've literally designed it to my needs (actually I was trying to simplify, the reality is I don't mix business but personal grades of porn to varying grades of legality, so do you seriously expect me to have multiple personal Office256 accounts for categories of porn????) It's just their default settings went from years of causing data corruption as soon as you try to change the default of everything checked to this new cluster of ghost syncing.