Community ManagerHey all,
Thank you for this feedback.
We have made the teams aware of this.
You could also say users from one drive did it wrong.
They should config there onedrive / folders to be backup!
More important , read the manual how to exclude folders from one drive, google for it !
Cheers
@Rokebo73When i exclude a folder from onedrive, the folder still stays on onedrive and the folder on my pc will be deleted, when i then start the game a new cache folder is made, and onedrive tells me that there are now 2 folders with the same name.
Onedrive should delete the folder from onedriver when i exclude a folder, this would make more sence but the reverse is the case.
So users did it not wrong, but Dice did and Microsoft.
I wish they put the game folders not in the documents folder but in their own game folder that is not connected to onedrive.
@Rokebo73This does not work, when i exclude the cache folder from onedrive and then go to the online version of onedrive and then delete the cache folder, when i then start up BF2042 a new cache folder will show up in onedrive.
@Rokebo73 Respectfully, you're incorrect. OneDrive hides the folder from the Operating System if you exclude it from the backup. I tested this last night. I can choose to "show hidden files" and the game still cannot see the folder. Therefore, all of my saved settings get wiped every time I launch the game.
I appreciate that the support team is reviewing this request. There are countless other folders that are better suited for these files.
With the latest patch, the cache folder is still in my Documents, onedrive.
Also have this issue. OneDrive got filled up with a 1GB+ BF2042 folder and stopped me receiving emails.
Unselecting the folder as per advice in post #10 doesn't work as this removes the folder from the PC but not OneDrive.
EA just HAS to move this folder out of My Docs. This is a standard area for users personal files and makes total sense for OneDrive to backup... not the place for a cache folder.
The normal place for these sorts of folders is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\BF2042\Cache
Surely it's not that hard to change this EA... For now I just have to remember to delete the folder after every play session
