Confirmed by Microsoft just this morning: Files save to OneDrive by default in Windows 10
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-in-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7?wt.mc_id=rm_onedrive_default-save-location_bodycopy-here <https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-in-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7?wt.mc_id=rm_onedrive_default-save-location_bodycopy-here&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US> &ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US In comparing my new computer against some other Windows 10 computers that were UPGRADED instead of a CLEAN install, there is no OneDrive in the file path for the Users\Documents on the UPGRADED systems. What this means is that the old file path most of us are used to “C:\Users\YourName\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData” may now appear to users doing a clean install as: “C”\Users\YourName\OneDrive\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData” What’s not yet clear to me if it’s the installation of Microsoft Office on my computer that forced this new default location or if it happens to all NEW installation doing a CLEAN install instead of an upgrade in place. The fact that the above URL is a MS Office Support web page, leads me to believe that it may be the existence of Office that does this dirty trick. I know most users running Windows 10 that were upgraded do NOT have the OneDrive in the Documents path. I even got an email from Microsoft this morning saying welcome to One Drive…you’ve chosen to take advantage of OneDrive…. I did no such thing. I think it’s being forced by MS just like the GetWindows10 downloads. So far, Legacy seems happy with dealing with a file path that contains OneDrive for all the “_AppData” --- something that caught Legacy support by surprise. With multiple versions of Windows 10 now in use and the upgrade differing from the clean installs, who knows where this leads. Let the games begin. Brian in CA From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 8:48 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs Brian, Check where your Windows Documents is located. Has it been located in One Drive? One Drive used to have its own Documents folder separate to the default Windows Documents folder but maybe it's different in Windows 10? I'm using Windows 10 but haven't used One Drive on it yet. Legacy uses the Windows Document folder where ever that is located. Note Sherry has given the default location of the Documents folder but it can be moved if you use the proper methods. Mine is simply D:\Documents I've similarly moved the Windows Pictures folder to D:\Pictures but this time I've left the Desktop at c:\<user name>\Desktop ;-) Cathy Sherry/Support wrote: Your data and media files and web pages can be anywhere you want them. Default is in c:\<user name>\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\ < BR> Everything else in the Documents\Legacy Family Tree\folder has to be there.... it can't be moved. That's where the program will look for the _AppData and other files and if it's moved, then it will just be recreated on c:\. Y our media files can be on the hard drive and not in the OneDrive folder. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot <br...@the-lightfoots.com <mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com%20%3cmailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com> <mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com>> wrote: Just built myself a new computer system and decided to give Windows 10 a second chance with a clean install. So far, I’m happy with the revised Windows 10 but when I re-installed Legacy something strange happened.____ ____ I had saved my complete cus tom data and media location folder from my previous install and copied onto the new system (it is all on a different drive than the C: drive; the program itself was installed to the usual default location on the C: drive.) I ran the new Legacy and pointed it towards my custom location for the family file. Everything is there. However in checking my customization options, I noticed the following strange things.____ __ __ Items 6.1 through 6.3 were all pointing towards C:\Users\(name)\OneDrive\Documents\LegacyFamilyTree\_AppData\ with the final sub-folder being “Data” for 6.1 Family File, “Media” for 6.2 Media Files, and “Temp” for 6.3 Temp files. ____ __ __ & nbsp; Notice the “OneDrive” in the path.____ __ __ I know the OneDrive was not part of the Win7 OS and that Win10 gives users “free 15 GB” of cloud storage called “OneDrive” but maybe I fell asleep at the switch and didn’t realize that Legacy would attempt to set up the cloud storage for file locations by default. Previously it was set up for the Legacy created “_AppData” folders in the User folders.____ __ __ Clicking on the RESET button for each item did not change anything. And clicking on the Options button at the bottom for Legacy Defaults or User Defaults did not change anything. (I am capable of manually changing the path to eliminate the “OneDrive” &nb sp; reference from each thus reverting to the “old” path that I am accustomed to and moving the necessary files to the usual location.)____ __ __ Did my system somehow burp on this install or was there a change in Legacy’s defaults of File Locations for Win10 installations? My 75 GB of media files will never fit on the “free” OneDrive from MS.____ __ __ __ __ Brian in CA____
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