# Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening

> A Redditor was moving a huge slab of data from old drives to a new one They used OneDrive as a midpoint in an ill-thought-out strategy that left all the data in Microsoft's cloud service temporarily When they came to…

- **Source:** [TechRadar](https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-user-has-30-years-of-irreplaceable-photos-and-work-locked-away-in-onedrive-and-microsofts-silence-is-deafening?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=685306ec3fc5e3e529908eb9)
- **Published:** 2025-06-18
- **Category:** Computers & IT
- **Tags:** #microsoft #onedrive #data #locked #irreplaceable #photos #windows #work
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