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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.
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.
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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They will proberbly get lost like a lot of Knowledge.
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
Last edited by Kari; 05 Jun 2021 at 20:39.
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.
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).
Onedrive has this silly feature enabled by default, it removes local files and keeps them online only.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...rs=en-us&ad=us
Well said, gdrive or onedrive can easily remove files you want to backup and keep files do not want.
The best way to be sure is to create a separate folder for each and run sync only when you want to.
Just recently onedrive got garbled and I could not open local files with onedrive not even installed.