Help!!

[Coffeequeen72]

Hi there,

Being a bit of a technophobe, and general dimwit at times, I've got myself into a bit of a pickle and was hoping someone can help me.

I work from home. I use my personal PC to access my work system.

I've just realised (to my horror) that I may have been saving personal documents to my work onedrive.

I only realised this by just clicking 'save' on a doc I wrote just now and noticed that it automatically saves on my work onedrive. I just assumed the docs were saving in my 'saved docs' file.

There's nothing massively controversial to worry about but personal stuff nonetheless. Personal letters that I've typed, drafts of emails etc.

Why do these things automatically sync?? I wasn't even logged on to work today!

How do I go about checking what I may or may not have saved to my work onedrive, and how do I go about deleting them??

Many thanks in anticipation of any help that can come my way.

If you google 'onedrive', you'll be able to log into your work account and see what's been saved. When you go to save things, click 'save as' rather than just save, and then you can choose to save it in your computer documents file rather than on one drive :)

windows is awful for this - it assumes you want to use OneDrive for everything and I keep having to tell it not to.

first, check the work OneDrive and remove any personal documents, put them on your local 'my documents' instead.

second, google how to change the default location for saving documents so that they stay local

and keep an eye on it - OneDrive keeps trying to take over.

Thank you both.

I've just gone through what I think is all of the docs on my work onedrive and it looks like the only non-work thing on there was a recipe I'd written for low carb mug cakes a couple of weeks ago! It could have been a lot worse.

Panic over.

It's very annoying that it's so easy to save things on there that could be potentially very private / embarrassing. I should imagine it happens a lot to people even less savvy than me.

I will be more careful and use the 'save as' function from now on.

And I think I may look into buying a laptop for work purposes :)

Thanks again.