Please don't misunderstand me: Apple is even worse. OneDrive just complicates matters further by adding another layer of redirection and obfuscation. And heaven help you if you try to apply some sense of order by deleting any of those pointers: it's delete the actual file! But then the damned thing pops up in the most unexpected places because Windows is trying to outsmart you and builds pointers to it all over the place. Want to add a file to some nice, logical tree structure carefully constructed in your D:\ drive? Go for it. It keeps bundling up groups of files into "libraries" designed to confuse and obfuscate. And I've come to understand it well enough in the Google Drive incarnation. "Cloud" storage seems like a straightforward enough concept. Not psuedo things that are just pointers to something somewhere. I learned to manage files as actual *files* located on actual physical drives in my possession. But I hail from a time before GUIs when DOS was king.
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