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Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com)
The next update to Windows 10, due to be released in October, will be smarter about how it frees up disk space and cleans up temporary files. Ars Technica reports: As part of its Storage Sense feature, Windows will be able to automatically remove the local copies of OneDrive files (unless they've been set as always available offline). The operating system will determine which files to remove based on when they were opened: files used more recently than a certain number of days will be retained locally, while those that haven't been used will be replaced with placeholders. The system will remove files until the operating system reckons it has enough free space for normal operation.
Storage Sense will also be able to remove temporary or otherwise unneeded files such as system logs and image thumbnails. It will also be able to remove old files from the download directory. The temporary-file cleanup (which can also remove certain cache files, driver packages, old anti-virus definitions, and more) was previously handled by the Disk Cleanup tool. That tool is now deprecated, as Storage Sense does everything it used to do and more. Storage Sense can perform its cleanup process periodically (every day, week, or month) or automatically whenever the system is low on disk space.
Storage Sense will also be able to remove temporary or otherwise unneeded files such as system logs and image thumbnails. It will also be able to remove old files from the download directory. The temporary-file cleanup (which can also remove certain cache files, driver packages, old anti-virus definitions, and more) was previously handled by the Disk Cleanup tool. That tool is now deprecated, as Storage Sense does everything it used to do and more. Storage Sense can perform its cleanup process periodically (every day, week, or month) or automatically whenever the system is low on disk space.
Hard drives are cheaper and faster than ever. Using the cloud "to free up disk space" is a misleading headline and OP and ed know it. It's marketing bullshit.
What "using the cloud" do will put all your files on the web where you data can be stolen and hacked and snooped on and used for advertising. Windows 10 is Adware and this will make it even easier.
If you've "upgraded" to Windows 10 then you are a moron. Unfortunately most people are morons ignorant of technology and privacy and this dumb majority keeps Windows 10 profitable instead of forcing MS to rethink.
From a company that still has not figured out how security works.
Another day closer to redwood heaven
Oh, MS knows how security works. Their income security, their relationship security with Big Surveillance.
I've said this before but OS-as-a-service does not work. Windows is currently unsuitable for any serious business use. It's becoming an always-online, uncontrollable and unpredictable data harvesting tool. You simply cannot use it offline anymore and with this "feature" it is now pure garbage.
...all the Store crap it installed without anyone's permission.
Microsoft making a decision like this displays the same sort of arrogance as Apple deleting the headphone port from its iPhones.
Fuck the people who make such asinine narrow-minded decisions, fuck their products, fuck their companies, and fuck the horse they rode in on.
Look i hate microsoft, i hate windows 10, but I do have to support it. Out of control onedrive files, especially on a multi user computer, is a constant plague. People just dont set their files online only. They just dont. Having the OS manage that for them should have been a feature YEARS ago.
40gb in a teams filestore is like no problem for anyone but me. Now thats replicated to 20 people in a department, wasting all that local storage space and BANDWIDTH. So yes, microsoft finally got around to FIXING an obvious undersight and all you people see is "microsoft" and "cloud" and "delete" and are all like nooope! without actually thinking or knowing what you guys are talking about.
This is a windows admin's dream if you use teams or onedrive, which face it, many companies are moving to for various reasons i wont get into. Most features they put out are ass and break things, and this may be as well, but on paper it would be a HUGE help.
Look at the list of what its deleting. All temp files. We have fileshares, cloud and on premises, so people dont have anything local on their machines. They can be reimaged or stolen or surged. And they need to be cleaned, manually, when their disks fill up with cache files that the OS should be dealing with!
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Windows 10 already eats WAY too much of my internet connection on its stupid updates. (No I don't need an update of Internet Edge, because I never use it.... where's the stupid "turn updates off" option?) It slows everything down, such that I can't even load Youtube and watch a video until the update is finished.
Now they want to offload tempt files across my line too? Come on! I truly hate this company (and that hatred goes back to 1990).
Microsoft: Please stop sucking. Please treat your users & their computers with RESPECT instead of your personal servants.
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How about instead of randomly deleting my personal files off of my personal device, you start moving your own "rarely used" files? C:\Windows\WinSXS is a perennial problem. You can't tell me that you need all that SXS data available at a moment's notice. What about the SoftwareDistribution directory? What about all of your uninstallers and other crap that fills up my Windows directory? How about let's look at moving that stuff to the cloud first, eh?
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