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Why does OneDrive have access to regedit??? Lost my files!!!
I had 2 hard drives installed in my PC, one SSD 120GB as my operating system drive and one 1TB HDD for my data. My HDD is starting to fail for some reason (maybe because of old age) as it now sometim...
The registry is where system configuration data resides so of course OneDrive will write to it.
At some point you asked OneDrive to redirect system folders like Documents. Those folders are in your user profile path. This has been a normal practice for decades through such Windows features as roaming profiles.
Please get an experienced Windows tech to look at your computer. Your own edits to the system are what is doing damage.
At some point you asked OneDrive to redirect system folders like Documents. Those folders are in your user profile path. This has been a normal practice for decades through such Windows features as roaming profiles.
Please get an experienced Windows tech to look at your computer. Your own edits to the system are what is doing damage.
If I did ask OneDrive to redirect system folders to the cloud, then it didn't make it clear that that's what OneDrive wants to do. As I've stated, OneDrive only ever asked me if I wanted to back up my user folders into OneDrive. Surely you would agree that this prompt doesn't constitute a command to redirect my user profile path registry into the cloud or OneDrive's folder path?
I have never denied that my own edits were one of the causes to the incident. However, again, my edits never caused any damage until I configured OneDrive to backup my user profile folder, which is doing something that is either completely misleading or completely uncalled for. In fact, I've now done a reset of my Windows installation, did the same edits as I've previously done before setting up OneDrive, and right now my system is working flawlessly.
I understand that if you're a Microsoft employee you would like to defend your products, but it would do wonders for OneDrive if we could recognize when something is a potential design flaw that might need some reconsiderations. The damage is already done as I don't actually have any backups, and thankfully the damage could've easily been a lot worse for a few reasons, so getting an experienced tech to look at my PC (even though I wouldn't necessary call myself a beginner at the slightest) would do nothing to help. I'm just here to provide my experience with OneDrive that I can wholeheartedly summarize as confusing and frustrating, in the hopes that maybe this information will provide useful insight for future use.
I have never denied that my own edits were one of the causes to the incident. However, again, my edits never caused any damage until I configured OneDrive to backup my user profile folder, which is doing something that is either completely misleading or completely uncalled for. In fact, I've now done a reset of my Windows installation, did the same edits as I've previously done before setting up OneDrive, and right now my system is working flawlessly.
I understand that if you're a Microsoft employee you would like to defend your products, but it would do wonders for OneDrive if we could recognize when something is a potential design flaw that might need some reconsiderations. The damage is already done as I don't actually have any backups, and thankfully the damage could've easily been a lot worse for a few reasons, so getting an experienced tech to look at my PC (even though I wouldn't necessary call myself a beginner at the slightest) would do nothing to help. I'm just here to provide my experience with OneDrive that I can wholeheartedly summarize as confusing and frustrating, in the hopes that maybe this information will provide useful insight for future use.