Onedrive random Photos

[theringmaster55]

I've been looking through my onedrive photos, and I've got so many random photos taking up space. I have photos of thumbnails, company logos and random celebrities.

Am I ok with deleting them, without causing problems, and how can I stop future photos to be added.

Thanks very much

[_I_]

anything on onedrive cloud can be deleted
its best to uninstall it if you can, unless you want ms to have all of your pics and docs and everything you have saved in your docs

[theringmaster55]

Originally posted by _I_:

anything on onedrive cloud can be deleted
its best to uninstall it if you can, unless you want ms to have all of your pics and docs and everything you have saved in your docs

Thank you

[SlowClick]

Or you can go into OneDrive's settings and tell it what to back up - or not back up in your case.

I don't let OneDrive backup anything, but I use it a lot to keep the stuff I want kept there.

I'm sure there is someone in MS who sits at their PC looking at my photos - NOT! It doesn't work like that. And I don't care if they could.

[theringmaster55]

Originally posted by SlowClick:

Or you can go into OneDrive's settings and tell it what to back up - or not back up in your case.

I don't let OneDrive backup anything, but I use it a lot to keep the stuff I want kept there.

I'm sure there is someone in MS who sits at their PC looking at my photos - NOT! It doesn't work like that. And I don't care if they could.

Thanks

[Bad 💀 Motha]

In the future, either get rid of OneDrive or at least go into its config on any local PCs and better configure it to not backup so many folders and then better dictate what it does backup for you if you want that.

For starters appa like OneDrive should never be set to backup all the sub-folders within users Documents or AppData folders. As these structures are used by many apps, especially games and can inadvertently revert old data back into those folders, losing new progress made in your games for example

[theringmaster55]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

In the future, either get rid of OneDrive or at least go into its config on any local PCs and better configure it to not backup so many folders and then better dictate what it does backup for you if you want that.

For starters appa like OneDrive should never be set to backup all the sub-folders within users Documents or AppData folders. As these structures are used by many apps, especially games and can inadvertently revert old data back into those folders, losing new progress made in your games for example

OK, thank you. This information is quite new to me, so thanks for explaining it. Most of my onedrive is either filled up with old fallout 4 saves or random photos that I never took.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

How many Windows/Android devices do you have that use OneDrive under the same Microsoft account?

As those could be from another PC for example if you use the same Microsoft login on that as well.

[theringmaster55]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

How many Windows/Android devices do you have that use OneDrive under the same Microsoft account?

As those could be from another PC for example if you use the same Microsoft login on that as well.

Not sure, probably just the 1.