OneDrive - Should I trust it? Win 10 22H2

Taliseian · 02 Jan 2023

Personally I have my own backup solutions and I don't like OneDrive. I wish it wasn't so integrated into the OS (especially W11 but too much for my personal liking in W10). I tend to do just a personal data backup of my OS drive instead of full images (personally I use Personal Backup for that), so restoring is more of a manual PITA since I unlink and uninstall OneDrive early on in the After Installation process.

But YMMV - if you like OneDrive then more power to you. It's not something that I personally like to use.

mrgeek · 02 Jan 2023

Taliseian- "Personally I have my own backup solutions and I don't like OneDrive. I wish it wasn't so integrated into the OS"

Skimmed thru this topic. I use Onedrive quite bit to share large files with others, not just for backup. I get the paranoia surrounding these cloud services but I don't see it as any diff than iDrive or Google Photos/Drive auto backing up your phone photos/files. Those are 'integrated' much deeper than Onedrive into the phone OS and you have more control over Onedrive. Just my opinion. Cheers

EJett · 02 Jan 2023

cereberus said:

Actually members here including myself try to help people learn if they ask nicely. Why not start off reading the onedrive tutorials in the tutorial section?

I apologize Cereberus if I offended you. And I have been reading and studying the tutorials on OneDrive posted here. Thanks for your help.

EJ

cereberus · 02 Jan 2023

EJett said:

I apologize Cereberus if I offended you. And I have been reading and studying the tutorials on OneDrive posted here. Thanks for your help.

EJ

Well done

RickC · 02 Jan 2023

cereberus said:

What has the government go to do with it - that is just perpetual bs spreads by conspiracy theorists.

Any cloud service has access to files on its service - how is MS any different? I would trust MS over many other services - there has not been a single recorded cases of MS using data nefariously.

Visit Microsoft's Law Enforcement Requests Report and download the latest report that shows how many times Microsoft gave up customer data as a result of requests - 168 times from January to June 2022 alone. It may not be 'nefarious' but it does happen.

The full Microsoft statements about data are here: About our practices and your data

cereberus · 03 Jan 2023

RickC said:

Visit Microsoft's Law Enforcement Requests Report and download the latest report that shows how many times Microsoft gave up customer data as a result of requests - 168 times from January to June 2022 alone. It may not be 'nefarious' but it does happen.

The full Microsoft statements about data are here: About our practices and your data

I was careful to say nefarious as opposed to legal requirements in pursuit of criminal investigations.

That legal requirement presumably exists for all other companies like Apple.

There is a huge difference between spying (unknown access to your data) and access via legal data requests. I personally have no problem with this as anything that can provide evidence to prosecute criminals is fair game. It is no different to a search warrant in my opinion.

The whole MS and governments are spying on you nonsense is so old and tedious now - people need to get a grip.