How Microsoft Extortion Can Lead to Data Loss

⚠️ OneDrive’s “backup” can quietly move your Desktop and Documents into the cloud, fill your free 5GB of storage, and start pushing you to “free up space.” Here’s the scary part: the wrong click can delete files everywhere. ⚠️ OneDrive and data loss Once OneDrive’s backup “feature” is enabled, you can run out of storage space fast. Deleting files to make more space can lose your data permanently. Options include paying for more space, abandoning OneDrive, avoiding the backup “feature”, and becoming more OneDrive-literate so you can use it safely. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/182312 Related videos: OneDrive Course: https://askleo.com/product/all-about-... How Do I Get Rid of OneDrive? -    • How Do I Get Rid of OneDrive?   Avoid Windows’ Default Folders -    • Why I Avoid Windows Standard Folders   How OneDrive Works: the Very Basics -    • How OneDrive Works: the Very Basics   The Problem With OneDrive Backup -    • The Problem With OneDrive Backup   Recover From Turning OneDrive Backup Off -    • How Do I Recover From Turning the OneDrive...   Keep files out of OneDrive -    • How Do I Store Files on My Computer and No...   OneDrive Is Not Backup -    • OneDrive is Not Backup   How to Back Up Windows - Watch on YouTube 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ How Do I Recover From Turning the OneDrive Backup “Feature” Off? ▶    • How Do I Recover From Turning the OneDrive...   Chapters 0:00 Microsoft Extortion Can Lead to Data Loss 1:00 The conditions required for data loss 2:22 The trigger for data loss 13:00 Understand how OneDrive works 15:51 Solution #1 Pay the ransom 17:10 Solution #2 Stop. Using. OneDrive 16:18 Solution #3 Keep the backup “feature” off 20:00 Solution #4 Learn how to use OneDrive safely 22:02 A word about backing up (of course) ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more! #askleo #microsoft #data #onedrive