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Curious why they tried to send a file from a windows machine via IMessage (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Default location of the downloads folder becoming OneDrive wouldn't suprise me at all

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That sounds like hell, imagine running an exe from the cloud

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why would it run it from the cloud? Any file you try to open is downloaded locally first.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The commenter suggested the file would be downloaded to onedrive. This implies that it doesn't touch the computer.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Windows has a onedrive folder locally, which is the one that person is talking about. C: users isn’t in the onedrive folder.

    I’m not sure you know how onedrive works tbh.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it literally happened to me but ok

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’m sorry but this is just not true. It does not and never has defaulted to having system folders in onedrive.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    I think it might offer Downloads as an optional checkbox to select on first login, but can't remember off top of my head. Also, they definitely want you to blow through your free storage to give you a reason to upgrade the storage.

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