• Magickmaster@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Windows user folders are nearly unusable in my opinion, too many programs throw in random folders and files everywhere. Especially the Documents folder, too many games putting incoherent stuff in there

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      8 months ago

      Jup, useless folder. There’s one related thing I’ve complained a lot about lately, so I’m gonna complain some more about it:

      Microsoft got this “great” idea of trying to repeatedly trick me into uploading that Documents folder to the cloud. A folder filled with GBytes of Battlefield and Assassins Creed cache files, Starfield mods, MS database files, etc… A lot of files that are in constant change, or locked the entire session. Annoying as hell. I love Onedrive, but I dont know why its so damn important for them to have those files.

      Sometimes I really wish I could switch to some Linux distro instead.

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        8 months ago

        It’s asinine that Onedrive doesn’t have an equivalent of the decades-old gitignore technology…

        There seems to be a workaround, though - archive link. It should work as long as the local and remote conflict remains unresolved, or Microsoft decides to just push the remote onto the local machine and delete your files instead.