Comment by greatgib

> OD didn't back up your data, it moved it to the cloud and didn't tell you.

Now I think that I understand your mistake. You think that onedrive moves the data to the cloud, and so obviously losing the cloud version makes you lose the file.

But it is not what is happening from my understanding, and here is the very dark pattern:

- The file is and stays in your computer. (Actually OneDrive doesn't know how to store more than what you have in local copy... totally miserable).

- So it is just a "copy" that is sent to the cloud.

- When you delete your files in their cloud (in the sense of getting ride of your storage there, and not only files), only then "OneDrive" actively goes to delete your files in your local disk!