As suggested way way back, I have invested in a VGA switcher! Bit of
brain ache from sorting out the various male/female pin issues but both
PCs are now accessible at the push of a button.
The desk top wire tangle would impress a nesting Blackbird:-)
I now have to discourage W11 from a determination to save stuff to the cloud:-(
As suggested way way back, I have invested in a VGA switcher! Bit of brain ache from sorting out the various male/female pin issues but both PCs are now accessible at the push of a button.
The desk top wire tangle would impress a nesting Blackbird:-)
I now have to discourage W11 from a determination to save stuff to the cloud:-(
On Tue, 12/10/2024 11:46 AM, Timatmarford wrote:That's the ambition. I will never need that amount of storage and don't
As suggested way way back, I have invested in a VGA switcher! Bit of brain ache from sorting out the various male/female pin issues but both PCs are now accessible at the push of a button.
The desk top wire tangle would impress a nesting Blackbird:-)
I now have to discourage W11 from a determination to save stuff to the cloud:-(
You can find all sorts of articles full of ticky boxes.
But that's not a way to make progress.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-to-access-onedrive-settings-6173f176-fd9a-4a34-88f5-5646ec6f568b
https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/windows-11-onedrive.html
One of the problems can be, that removal of OneDrive entirely,
can leave some folders unlinked.
I have an MSA, but never set up OneDrive. I think I was in
a poker game, when all of a sudden, I lost my OneDrive on
a pair of aces.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/uninstall-onedrive-windows-10.png
I think you can see how a thing like that might happen.
My OneDrive "folder" also seemed to get torched, not to be found
now. Nothing in the linkage arena seems damaged. I think there
might have been a trick to deleting that folder. Maybe I did
it with an rmdir, but I don't remember doing it really.
I hope everyone at Microsoft is OK. I wouldn't want to poke
an eye out with my shenanigans.
Summary - the best time to dump OneDrive, is before it takes over.
- Later ? You'll need the script with the linkage repair in it.
Maybe that was the script Big Al dropped one day.
"If you don't want to use OneDrive, the easiest solution is to unlink it."
Well, maybe.
I just like the executable to be gone, too.
It's possible if you remove OneDrive executable, without unlinking
the account first, that is what messes up the folders. So what you'd
want to find, is a procedure that does these things in the right order, rather than randomly doing the steps and breaking stuff. As
some people managed to do. The only reason mine wasn't a disaster,
is it hadn't taken over yet :-)
Unlink seemed to make this guy happy.
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/how-do-i-uncouple-onedrive-from-the-dang-documents-folder.14943/
Example of an unlink tutorial.
Apparently, if you log into the Microsoft (MSA) account, there is
supposed to be "privacy" information, that tells you what assets
Microsoft has got. Perhaps check that out, to see what files
of yours would be orphaned in the cloud. There can also be
encryption recovery keys stored in the cloud account (the control
center for the thing in a sense). Unlinking OneDrive would
just be part of the feature set, and is not the end of your
MSA account.
Paul
On 10/12/2024 18:26, Paul wrote:
On Tue, 12/10/2024 11:46 AM, Timatmarford wrote:That's the ambition. I will never need that amount of storage and don't like MS telling me how to give access to others. Seems a built in security issue.
As suggested way way back, I have invested in a VGA switcher! Bit of brain ache from sorting out the various male/female pin issues but both PCs are now accessible at the push of a button.
The desk top wire tangle would impress a nesting Blackbird:-)
I now have to discourage W11 from a determination to save stuff to the cloud:-(
You can find all sorts of articles full of ticky boxes.
But that's not a way to make progress.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-to-access-onedrive-settings-6173f176-fd9a-4a34-88f5-5646ec6f568b
https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/windows-11-onedrive.html
One of the problems can be, that removal of OneDrive entirely,
can leave some folders unlinked.
I have an MSA, but never set up OneDrive. I think I was in
a poker game, when all of a sudden, I lost my OneDrive on
a pair of aces.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/uninstall-onedrive-windows-10.png
I think you can see how a thing like that might happen.
My OneDrive "folder" also seemed to get torched, not to be found
now. Nothing in the linkage arena seems damaged. I think there
might have been a trick to deleting that folder. Maybe I did
it with an rmdir, but I don't remember doing it really.
I hope everyone at Microsoft is OK. I wouldn't want to poke
an eye out with my shenanigans.
Summary - the best time to dump OneDrive, is before it takes over.
- Later ? You'll need the script with the linkage repair in it.
Maybe that was the script Big Al dropped one day.
The other concern is how long will it remain *free*.
"If you don't want to use OneDrive, the easiest solution is to unlink it." >>
Well, maybe.
I just like the executable to be gone, too.
It's possible if you remove OneDrive executable, without unlinking
the account first, that is what messes up the folders. So what you'd
want to find, is a procedure that does these things in the right order,
rather than randomly doing the steps and breaking stuff. As
some people managed to do. The only reason mine wasn't a disaster,
is it hadn't taken over yet :-)
Or mine.
Unlink seemed to make this guy happy.
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/how-do-i-uncouple-onedrive-from-the-dang-documents-folder.14943/
I'll have a look. I can usually manage to untick stuff:-)
Example of an unlink tutorial.
Apparently, if you log into the Microsoft (MSA) account, there is
supposed to be "privacy" information, that tells you what assets
Microsoft has got. Perhaps check that out, to see what files
of yours would be orphaned in the cloud. There can also be
encryption recovery keys stored in the cloud account (the control
center for the thing in a sense). Unlinking OneDrive would
just be part of the feature set, and is not the end of your
MSA account.
Nothing of any significance so far.
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