onedrive

Why is one drive so complicated. since using it i can not keep track of where my files are. I have even stored them on a different drive i.e .F:\documents and they still seam to disapear.

Agree. I uninstall it - it slows things up and has a mind of its own IMO!

Odd, I have my files on D:\OneDrive and I save almost everything to OneDrive and have no issues.

We use OneDrive at work too and my user profile is directed there for MyDocuments and such. Seems to work okay.

Uninstall OneDrive in Windows 10

pparks1 said:

Odd, I have my files on D:\OneDrive and I save almost everything to OneDrive and have no issues.

We use OneDrive at work too and my user profile is directed there for MyDocuments and such. Seems to work okay.

Maybe it's a learning curve . I find it slows my laptop up which is why I uninstall it but I didn't like that it sucked files in when I hadn't asked it to (although you can set it not to now during initial install).

Hazel123 said:

Agree. I uninstall it - it slows things up and has a mind of its own IMO!

Yes it does slow things up i have been paying £1.99/month to microsoft for it and my files Keep diapearing,it has to download say a word document then display it. and it mislays files when i need them. i am going to uninstall it and go back to backing up my own files to sepperate HDD.and Using my old oak filing cabinate for important Docs. sometimes the old ways are best.

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Hazel123 said:

Maybe it's a learning curve . I find it slows my laptop up which is why I uninstall it but I didn't like that it sucked files in when I hadn't asked it to (although you can set it not to now during initial install).

They will proberbly get lost like a lot of Knowledge.

You seem to Know what your doing with One drive I have never explored the app properly. I shall still use my own backups. as I would have lost Hours and Hours of digital artwork after a system rebuild recently. the files were no longer in One drive But I had backed them up on a large thumb drive.
Q. Do you have to pay for it?.
Q.Is there a good easy guide to set it up properly?.
Thank you all for replies.

Kari said:

I fully agree.

I could not survive without OneDrive. Easy, simple to setup, effortless to manage. I currently sync three OneDrive accounts on my computers, one OD Personal, and two OD for Business accounts.


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Windows 10 without an OneDrive account is like Gin & Tonic without Gin


Kari

I prefer to back up to external hard drives. More reassuring for important files. One drive is included with Windows 10 with the first 5GB free. After that it's £1.99 a month for 100GB. If you need more (probably) you can get 1TB if you sign up for Microsoft office 365 personal (£59.99 a year). You can get 6tb if you sign up for Microsoft office family (£79.99 a year).

So no, not free if you have a lot to store. I could get a few 1tb external hard drives for that. I can see cloud being beneficial for businesses etc but I prefer hands on storage There are also other cloud services like dropbox. I tried that once and had issues as well!

I think you need to really know what you're doing with cloud storage - I found it confusing having documents in different locations and finding it deleted in one place and not the other (and not always what I thought I had done).