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OneDrive-Windows 10 Impact on Local HDD ?
I have used OneDrive extensively but have not studied the underlying rules & processes - thus an ignorant question and/or observation: Did something change dramatically re how built-in OneDrive in Windows 10 stores & syncs?
Maybe I'm not understanding what's going on so, in Windows 7, when I check the contents/usage of the local Drive, some folders under my OneDrive are showing actual data written to the local drive that is more/less equivalent to that stored on the OneDrive server farm. Others definitely do not show such - mainly images/media if I'm seeing it right.
However I noticed with some alarm that when Build 9926 loaded up and I logged in to OneDrive with one of my MS accounts, the "sync" process went on interminably [quite consumptive, BTW... it was dragging my CPU to its knees] as it was loading onto my local HDD the entire pile of stuff stashed in my OneDrive web store. ??? Why? What's the value in that? So I nixed that idea until I could get a better understanding of setup.
What's the scoop? Is Windows 8.1 rules & process for OneDrive different than 7 and different than 10 or what?