TIFU by thinking I can just use one drive and upload the albums one by one and downloading them and then deleting them.

Well I actually kept doing it until I noticed the synch was not only deleting the one drive file it was also deleting my albums that were synched at the same time.

Now I have to recover 40 Albums because I didn’t check what was going on while doing this whole thing.

Now I have to recover them all and while doing so I noticed it has wrong date/ time now.

Pro tip: You should synch your fotos with one drive, download the photos, UNSYNCH again and then delete.

  • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Frankly, if you have the disk space, OneDrive should not be the exclusive home of your data. No cloud should. Your data should live on your physical computer hard drives, the cloud is just where it’s backed up and shared to other computers.

    Granted, this isn’t how Microsoft wants you to think. They want you to think of OneDrive as your main hard drive, that your computer is just borrowing from. There aren’t two files, there is one file in the Cloud, the computer is just mirroring it. Don’t let them sucker you into thinking of file management like this, it is a trap to make you more dependent on them and their services.

    In fact, you shouldn’t even be thinking of OneDrive as a backup, because that’s not what it’s for. Microsoft even tells you this you really read there documentation on it. The only real backups are physical backups in your possession that don’t require you to first phone home to a Microsoft server before you can access it. If a corporation is standing between you and accessing that data, it’s not your backup, it’s your data that you are letting them hold for you.

    What you would do in this scenario is leave OneDrive doing it syncing, but COPY the files from the OneDrive folder to a non-OneDrive folder or to a second hard drive.