• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The cherry on top is that he just made the website in his downloads folder and not a new folder for the project.

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      3 days ago

      Probably downloaded it from ChatGPT, that’s why it’s in the downloads folder.

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        3 days ago

        I did a quick install of windows (last year I think?) and it sorted everything into a onedrive folder. documents, pictures, videos, downloads, all that stuff, looked normal from the file explorer, but was sneakily placed into a onedrive folder. it went something like c:/users/me/onedrive/. didn’t realize what it had done until like 2 days later and it gave me some popup about not being able to upload. i don’t even have a onedrive account; it just decided that was how it should be done. no idea what, if anything, it actually uploaded.

        now if i have to install windows i have a script from privacy.sexy i run before doing anything else. havent had that happen again yet. still, probably best to assume anything on a windows machine is not private.

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          3 days ago

          Sorry but no.

          OneDrive would never back up a Downloads folder, that is just silly with the amount of data it gathers. Would fill up MS servers in no time.

          The only folders it may put automatically in OneDrive are Pictures, Documents and Desktop.

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              3 days ago

              I believe you. When my ex got a laptop, literally every folder was onedrive. Even system folders were mapped to onedrive it was ridiculous. I had to backup all her stuff and manually fix the fuckery in the registry editor before i could uninstall onedrive.