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Updated Feb 24, 2022
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What a nonsense are these news:/ Microsoft, are you thinking at all? Please, let an option to disable this messed up on demand feature. My situation. I have Onedrive sync root on the external drive. I do not want to have anything related to Onedrive on my internal drive. All of my synced data is stored in onedrive cloud and locally. And after this "nice" change my sync root gets redirected to internal drive, my local files are moved to hidden cache folder. What a heck is this? What to do with new additional files which I will want to have synced and locally available? I'll be forced to copy them to new sync root (which is on internal drive) and they will end up there and not on my external drive. Microsoft, is your plan to move your customers away from onedrive? Please, let users to disable these your innovative changes completely.
Microsoft, be a little different from Apple - do what your users want, not only what you want:/ Looking at the comments I see that majority of commenters do not like this your new experience.