Originally Posted by
blackjaw1980 I have a Lenovo laptop running W10 and I'm trying to set up OneDrive for my docs and photos. As I understand it, the sync functionality will mean anything stored in the cloud will have a corresponding local copy on my hard drive...
All sounds great so far - however, what I'm concerned about is whether the cloud copy will disappear in the (unlikely!) event that my laptop breaks or I lose any files. In other words the sync will look for a local copy of a photo on my laptop, see that its not there and will then remove the cloud version.
Have I got this right? If so, seems like syncing between cloud and device is a bit of a risk.... ?
No, you've got it wrong. I have been using one drive since I can remember, storing my files there.
I sync it between My surface and phones. Your info would never been deleted from the cloud. If you delete a local copy of a photo ( in the one drive folder) , it will sync and be deleted from onedrive.live.com
If you delete it from onedrive.live.com, it will be deleted on your computer as well when it syncs.
If your laptop crashes, blows up, stolen, falls off a cliff or sinks in the ocean, your files will remain on onedrive.live.com
You will only lose files you delete.