OneDrive Oddness

[Skeeter]

So I was sat here wondering why my OneDrive wasn't behaving like I thought it should, and I think it turns out that its changed how it works between a Windows 10 Preview build and now.

To be clear, I've never used OneDrive on anything other than Windows 10. Prior to 10 all my computers were 7, with the exception of a tablet I never used that was 8.1.

So I'm after a sanity check from anyone who remembers back into the Preview builds to check I'm not going crazy.

On Windows 10 now I have 2 'sets' of folders, my local ones, and my OneDrive ones. E.g.

C:\Users\Skeeter\Documents, etc...

And

C:\Users\Skeeter\OneDrive\Documents, etc...

They are not linked. However I'm pretty certain they were in a Preview build. And the reason I'm sure is that inside my OneDrive folder is a GTA savegame that could only have got there through the game putting it there, and it uses the local Documents location, not OneDrive. I can also distinctly remember doing a clean format and reinstall of a Preview build and my GTA5 save game automaically being put back afterwards, which must have been a OneDrive sync.

So am I going mad, or did OneDrive in 10 used to sync your local folders with OneDrive ones, and now it doesn't?

The concern I have is that I upgraded my parents PC last week and disabled their localised backups because I thought "its fine, all your documents are now automatically synced to OneDrive so you don't need to worry about it", but it looks like thats not actually the case?

 

[russell664]

No I don;t think they are linked.

I had the same question when I upgraded, I will have another look now, but I do believe there is a setting to 'automatically save' to Onedrive.

In regards to the folders, I had all of those Onedrive ones too, but ignored them thus far, as I only use the root for my Work documents.

 

[Skeeter]

Yeah but the GTA save game wasn't put there by me. So at some point either OneDrive was using my local Documents folder, or it had some sort of sync.

I installed an old Preview on a VM but it looks like the OneDrive implementation is an app that has been updated across the (Windows 10) board as it immediately updated itself as soon as I booted and it behaves the same as my current RTM 10.

I'm almost certain the functionality has changed. If it wasn't for the GTA save I'd have just assumed I made it up, but I definitely had that save carry over in a clean install as I remember joking with friends that installing 10 Preview was significantly quicker than installing GTA, especially as I didn't have to redo the SP intro missions again before being able to get online.

Having 2 sets of folders, one which is backed up and one which isn't, is going to be a pain and cause confusion for a lot of non techie users I expect. Especially if the default save location and the links in the start menu point to different places. There will be lots of "I saved it to Documents but when u go to Documents it's not there!"