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Strange that data corruption [1] is not offered as one of the options :)

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...

That's because these options are designed by someone in sales/marketing and not by anyone who cares about the user's experience. Including any option that implies that OneDrive is not perfect might "damage the brand".

Wow.... Also love the typical clueless response from the forum agent.

I haven't even clicked the link above yet, but I just know it's a green checkmarked Accepted answer post from a v-dash MSFT contractor, asking the OP to run `sfc /scannow`, and somehow "2+ people found this post helpful", while below it is a collapsed post with "2,536+ people found this post helpful" votes criticising the state of the MS Answers community.

...right?

UPDATE: I read the thread, and was even more disappointed: none of the official responses even acknowledged the entirety of the problem and callously disregarded important points like OneDrive for Business vs. Personal, the hard evidence of corruption, and MS' twisted messaging on backups for OneDrive...

The top reply sort of acknowledges home vs business (by noting that version history is intact there).

Right, I meant to say they didn't acknowledge the non-Business users would be screwed.

That happened to me multiple times at work. I genuinely thought I was going mad before I found out that that's just a thing onedrive does.

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