I guess we can hope all we want, Mike, but this is Microsoft that we are dealing with When I made the AutoSave switch to ThisPC, Legacy did not find my previous installation (in the OneDrive path) and instead thought it was a brand new program instllation. I suppose I could manually move the entire Legacy Family Tree over to the ThisPC (and maybe other programs' folders) but methinks Microsoft wants to sell cloud space and not make it easy for the user to abandon OneDrive. Another example is that Microsoft will no longer allow a "Guest" account on Windows 10 but there is a very easy way around it if you want to create one (email me privately if anyone wants info).
Brian in CA Monday's forecast: 105 degrees Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone ! -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeFry Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 2:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs On 27 May 2016 10:23 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > If any user has installed other software with the OneDrive app > pointing its AutoSave location to OneDrive instead of ThisPC, then I > would caution them to expect some turbulence if they make that > AutoSave change. In my case, Nero and Cyberlink write their own > folders to the Documents location just like Legacy. My grandson who > was running some Steam games on my computer found out that once Steam > creates their folders in the OneDrive path, changing the AutoSave back > to ThisPC causes certain games to crash....probably requiring them to > be re-install. But these are games and we all know that game applications seldom follow any standard procedures. One would hope that Microsoft will do the decent thing and implement a facility such as has always been present before the advent of the pernicious cloud. This facility allows you to move the Personal folder to anywhere on the PC, such as another drive. At the same time, the present contents of the Personal folder are moved to the new location. I would hope that Microsoft will ensure that when Documents is switched back to ThisPc, that the contents of Documents are moved from OneDrive to This Pc. -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) -- -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
