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BUG -OneDrive Build 23.169.0813.0001 (64x) - why not ask to remove folder structure when stop sync??
Hi MS Team Dev,
sorry for to be so 'ironic', but, is too 'expensive' the DEV team create some more couple of lines of code, for when the end user choose stop to sync an online folder (Microsoft Teams/Team/Files section) in order to be removed from its profile path and not show anymore on Windows Explorer???
To explain that case
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Some users stopped to sync some folder and then back to sync or even keep saving files on that structure (because it is still visible/accessible on their computer) but which is no more linked to be updated with his account online on the OneDrive.
It cause files/folder not be synced as expected by the user, do you know what I mean?
>>>>> I will write to be more clear, even to a child (ironic again) <<<<
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When the user decide to stop 'sync' an online folder, pls, force the OneDrive app (with more couple of code lines) to ask the user about to perform 02 steps automatically to him:
1) Do the 'cleanup free space' for that folder and its files - to avoid consume disk space;
2) remove folder structure from the disk and also remove the 'link' on the Windows Explorer window (left side panel).
As you can see in the picture below, only 01 folder is set up to by synced but other 03 keep showing and create confusion!
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Environment: Windows 10 Enterprise + M365 Tenant account
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COME ON MS DevTeam, let's make end user's life more easy!
* As we are partner, we got this complaint from a company that used Dropbox (before migrate to M365 with MS Teams and OneDrive) and it didn't happen to them! So, is the DropBox client app more smart then MSOneDrive app??
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Another post with the same complain: How to stop folders still showing in file explorer after unsyncing? - Microsoft Community Hub
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- Having read thousands of posts here and supported thousands more elsewhere, it's clear that most people don't understand sync. Deleting their files with sync turned off would be catastrophic.
If I choose to "stop the sync" for a shared folder (onedrive environment) or library (sharepoint environment), why should I still have files locally??? This is a problem from security perspective, don't you agree??
Keep in mind that sometimes an employee change sector on even leave company and those files already synced still remain locally on SSD consuming space and openning a security breach for Data Lekeage for example.
If other apps like Dropbox and Google Drive does, why don't do the same on Microsoft OneDrive????
