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You must think of the files on OneDrive as if OneDrive is the original.

Your files are stored remotely on OneDrive, and your local copy is only for offline use or used as a cache to speed up access. And if you are a business, you might like the fact that when you disconnect a PC, it deletes the local files, giving you more control over who has access to what.īut, if you are thinking that OneDrive is a copy of your local files, that is not really how it works. Now, this is awesome if you are using multiple devices and need to sync files between computers. If you disconnect a PC from OneDrive, it deletes all of the local copies of the file but keeps the remote copy. So if you delete the file in OneDrive, you delete it locally too. The copy of your file on the OneDrive server is the original, and the local copy on your hard drive is the copy.

Microsoft has backups of their cloud, but it is NOT a backup of your PC, in the traditional sense. It is more like a remote hard drive in the cloud. Many people, and even Microsoft, refer to OneDrive as a backup solution.

The number one cause of accidentally deleted files when using OneDrive is a result of a misunderstanding of what OneDrive is.