How is OneDrive Supposed to Work?

[DrWazzock]

Very confused.
I saved moved or copied everything to one drive in Windows 10. All good. Then my PC died and I bought a new one with windows 11 and signed in to MicroSoft account.
Now when opening say an excel spreadsheet on one drive it immediately makes a copy of it to my one drive personal directory. So my one drive personal directory is filling up with modified versions of files pulled from my one drive directory structure. Why does it work like this? Why can’t you just work in a Onedrive file and save it so the modifications are just applied to the online file?

 

[DrWazzock]

So I’ve ended up with files with the same name in one drive personal and in one drive /documents/fert records with different contents.

 

[DrWazzock]

Now it thinks I’ve two accounts associated with the same email address when I haven’t.

 

[GEMS]

Bloody Windoze ..............hate it with avengence -designed to promote IT jobs sorting its inept operating system for ludites like you and me....
Try Chromebook -google based -takes a bit of getting used to tho.....
I use windoze at work but back up to google drive (must do tomorrow -not done for a mnth !)

 

[Boysground]

Microsoft drive me insane with similar names to different things and multiple passwords. I backup everything to my icloud account, it’s setup as a drive on the pc so is easy.

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[Chris F]

I do have two accounts, one personal and one business.

I suppose in theory, if both were set up to duplicate your desktop then they would replicate information across both of them.

I always turn those options off.

 

[DrWazzock]

I’m using Apache open office now which seems to work fine with one drive. At least it seems to save stuff in the same place as it finds it whereas excel etc seems to saving stuff in places unknown so I cavy find the files with explorer.