OK this may be my first encounter with the enshittification of OneDrive - I know it only from the online cloud storage that you have to actually acitively save stuff too.
Appears that microsoft has it as default storgae so everything saved on hard drive of laptop is also backed up to their cloud.

And this onedrive storage is "full" after we downloaded full google photos* backup yesterday. So I can't do anything here even though the laptop itslef has a goood 150 Gb free on the hard drive.

Swearing is starting to happen. 3/n

*another world of pain I won't go into here.

Also slightly annoyed with both myself and husband for 1) allowing this situation to occur in first place 2) not being fully aware of the implications of the hasty decision to buy a windows based laptop in first place.

OTOH, we're reasonably knowledgeable on IT issues. What chance does average member of public stand?

4/n

Windows laptop is so gummed up it's taking minutes to react to simple search in the directories. And I can only conclude onedrive is the issue here, possibly also #EndOf10? I have disconnected the wifi while I try to run the backup.

So far the linux mint download to USB drive from danish hosted mirror site has been the easy part! 5/n

Update, disconnecting wifi connection has not made windows laptop run faster. The "Fast access" part of windows filefinder is now running even slower...

I only want to check my backup to an external hard drive has worked!

6/n