OneDrive

2025-08-26T23:36:37Z

Gearhead16: /* Aggressive push for backups (Aug. 2025) */

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|Category=Cloud storage
|ReleaseYear=2007 (as SkyDrive)|Website=https://onedrive.live.com/}}

'''OneDrive''' is a cloud storage service created by [[Microsoft]] in 2007 as SkyDrive and rebranded in 2014.

==Consumer impact summary==
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==Incidents==
This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===Aggressive push for backups (''Aug. 2025'')===
Starting in 2024 Windows users found that, at some point, the software attempts to back up user files without their knowledge or consent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OneDrive's Forcable Takeover of Folders Is Intolerable |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/1e5riab/onedrives_forcable_takeover_of_folders_is/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Onedrive Syncs files without permission and can't be removed without deletion of the files in the local machine. |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/zx79j6/onedrive_syncs_files_without_permission_and_cant/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=OneDrive sync'd EVERYTHING without permission? |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3887116/onedrive-syncd-everything-without-permission |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Onedrive is horrible, invasive and impossible |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5213385/onedrive-is-horrible-invasive-and-impossible}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=RANT: OneDrive enabled without consent |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4043083/rant-onedrive-enabled-without-consent}}</ref> In June of 2024 several news outlets reported on the change of Onedrive's setting to backup user files by default. This setting was implemented without consumer notification and without obtaining consumer consent.[https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html <nowiki>[6]</nowiki>] However, the way it does so is by redirecting several (unwittingly chosen) base folders to OneDrive, which once full, requests that the user "Upgrade" or "Free Up Space".<ref>{{Cite web |title=OneDrive attempted to sync my entire PC without my consent. |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f7795u/onedrive_attempted_to_sync_my_entire_pc_without/}}</ref> When the user tries to disable OneDrive by solutions found with a surface level search, it removes all said user files both locally and in cloud.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Microsoft Edge and OneDrive Syncing Without Warning or Consent |url=https://ctemplar.com/microsoft-edge-and-onedrive-syncing-without-warning-or-consent/}}</ref> The only ways for the user to recover those files require a physical backup, from desktop or OneDrive. User files are also being corrupted in the process.

User suspicions claim the implementation of this action (backing up all computer files without user knowledge, notification, or consent) is being staggered, allegedly to stop unified backlash from consumers.
[[File:OneDrive Desktop Shortcut.png|thumb|''Staggering of "feature" implementation (automatic backup):'' ''Includes the time & date the shortcut was created, which is when the user opened their computer. See references for evidence that this has been happening to users at different rates over the last year.'']]
[[File:File Corruption When Copying from OneDrive.png|thumb|''File corruption as a result of OneDrive's forced backup: Interrupted action notification from Windows, stating that "file ... has properties that can't be copied to the new location". This file is a recording of a song the user wrote & believed to be safe on their computer.'']]

[[File:OneDrive Permission Notification.png|thumb|''"Ensure'' ''that you have the right permissions to allow the item to sync." User did not request that this or any item be synced to OneDrive.'']]
[[File:OneDrive Notification to "Upgrade" or "Free up space".png|thumb|''Notification from OneDrive to "Upgrade" or "Free up space" - after moving all files it had space for onto OneDrive & off of local storage.'']]
[[File:File In Use by OneDrive.png|thumb|''"File in use [by OneDrive]" notification from Windows when attempting manual backup, not allowing the user to copy their file that OneDrive had moved off of their device.'']]

==See also==
*[[iCloud]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]

OneDrive

2025-08-26T23:23:12Z

Gearhead16: /* Aggressive push for backups (Aug. 2025) */

{{ToneWarning}}
{{Incomplete|Issue 1=use of "my" and "I"|Issue 2=Incorrect use of references (use <ref></ref> and cite web template)}}
{{ProductCargo
|Logo=OneDrive.svg
|Company=Microsoft
|InProduction=Yes
|ArticleType=Service
|Category=Cloud storage
|ReleaseYear=2007 (as SkyDrive)|Website=https://onedrive.live.com/}}

'''OneDrive''' is a cloud storage service created by [[Microsoft]] in 2007 as SkyDrive and rebranded in 2014.

==Consumer impact summary==
{{Ph-C-CIS}}

==Incidents==
This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===Aggressive push for backups (''Aug. 2025'')===
Starting in 2024 Windows users found that, at some point, the software attempts to back up user files without their knowledge or consent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OneDrive's Forcable Takeover of Folders Is Intolerable |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/1e5riab/onedrives_forcable_takeover_of_folders_is/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Onedrive Syncs files without permission and can't be removed without deletion of the files in the local machine. |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/zx79j6/onedrive_syncs_files_without_permission_and_cant/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=OneDrive sync'd EVERYTHING without permission? |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3887116/onedrive-syncd-everything-without-permission |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Onedrive is horrible, invasive and impossible |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5213385/onedrive-is-horrible-invasive-and-impossible}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=RANT: OneDrive enabled without consent |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4043083/rant-onedrive-enabled-without-consent}}</ref> In June of 2024 several news outlets reported on the change of Onedrive's setting to backup user files by default. This setting was implemented without consumer notification and without obtaining consumer consent. However, the way it does so is by redirecting several (unwittingly chosen) base folders to OneDrive, which once full, requests that the user "Upgrade" or "Free Up Space".<ref>{{Cite web |title=OneDrive attempted to sync my entire PC without my consent. |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f7795u/onedrive_attempted_to_sync_my_entire_pc_without/}}</ref> When the user tries to disable OneDrive by solutions found with a surface level search, it removes all said user files both locally and in cloud.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Microsoft Edge and OneDrive Syncing Without Warning or Consent |url=https://ctemplar.com/microsoft-edge-and-onedrive-syncing-without-warning-or-consent/}}</ref> The only ways for the user to recover those files require a physical backup, from desktop or OneDrive. User files are also being corrupted in the process.

User suspicions claim the implementation of this action (backing up all computer files without user knowledge, notification, or consent) is being staggered, allegedly to stop unified backlash from consumers.
[[File:OneDrive Desktop Shortcut.png|thumb|''Staggering of "feature" implementation (automatic backup):'' ''Includes the time & date the shortcut was created, which is when the user opened their computer. See references for evidence that this has been happening to users at different rates over the last year.'']]
[[File:File Corruption When Copying from OneDrive.png|thumb|''File corruption as a result of OneDrive's forced backup: Interrupted action notification from Windows, stating that "file ... has properties that can't be copied to the new location". This file is a recording of a song the user wrote & believed to be safe on their computer.'']]

[[File:OneDrive Permission Notification.png|thumb|''"Ensure'' ''that you have the right permissions to allow the item to sync." User did not request that this or any item be synced to OneDrive.'']]
[[File:OneDrive Notification to "Upgrade" or "Free up space".png|thumb|''Notification from OneDrive to "Upgrade" or "Free up space" - after moving all files it had space for onto OneDrive & off of local storage.'']]
[[File:File In Use by OneDrive.png|thumb|''"File in use [by OneDrive]" notification from Windows when attempting manual backup, not allowing the user to copy their file that OneDrive had moved off of their device.'']]

==See also==
*[[iCloud]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]

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