I'm confused

[Steven Titchenell]

Thursday night I had to rest my desktop PC that has Windows 10 on it. Afterwards, I was looking for some images I thought I had put on a disc, but hadn't. I opened OneDrive and found 3 files from programs I haven't even had on my pc for awhile. One was from my old printer that I uninstalled about a year ago. How did those files survive the reset when nothing else did?

 

[beers]

OneDrive is cloud based storage.

 

[Steven Titchenell]

So why didn't it still have a copy of the zip folder I thought I had transferred to a disc? The zip folder was only created in mid-October of 2016

 

[mistersprinkles]

Ya OneDrive is on a server somewhere else in the world. It is not on your PC. You could throw your PC down a well or run it over with a truck and your OneDrive files would remain intact, for years and years.

 

[beers]

So why didn't it still have a copy of the zip folder I thought I had transferred to a disc?

It'd probably be a good time to brush up on your data sorting skills. If you didn't put the zip on onedrive, it's not 'in the cloud' on the internet.