Every so often I get a Windows notification showing me screenshots I took in FFXIV 1 year ago on this day because my FFXIV screenshots folder is in my Pictures folder. I finally clicked on the thing because I was curious and apparently EVERY SINGLE IMAGE I’ve ever saved on this computer is getting backed up to OneDrive.
So I logged into OneDrive and deleted every folder besides the FFXIV screenshots one because I don’t want my OneDrive being filled up with random memes and anime art. Then later I opened my folders on my computer and EVERYTHING WAS GONE because apparently deleting the online OneDrive back-up also deletes the stuff from my harddrive??? Luckily I could retrieve it from the recycle bin. I know they aren’t online-only because when I save something there it still takes up disk space…
When I opened the OneDrive app and tried to change the settings so only a few specific folders get backed up to OneDrive, it wouldn’t let me uncheck anything at all and it just told me “Can’t stop syncing folder. The folder you tried to unselect contains the Windows Pictures folder, which is an important folder in Windows and is currently pointed to OneDrive.” I just want to make the default Pictures and Documents folders to be NORMAL FOLDERS. I only want a few specific subfolders inside those to be synced to OneDrive, not the entire freaking thing.
