OneDrive: Still the elephant in the room.

I was always intimidated with OneDrive since day one, for various reasons, and it stuck with me like an annoying allergy!
Nothing wrong with the concept, I just always shied away from it.
I have 200GB of free online storage and I use about 100th of it!
I don't really require online storage and, I have no need to share files collaboratively or socially.
If I need to share something, I just email it.

Power to those who find OneDrive invaluable, as well as those who feel the need to eradicate it from their systems!

I personally don’t know what to do without OneDrive. Almost everything is on OneDrive and it works great to have all my files, private and for work, available everywhere at all times.

Timaximus said:

I personally don’t know what to do without OneDrive. Almost everything is on OneDrive and it works great to have all my files, private and for work, available everywhere at all times.

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I guess, a lot depends on the individual and their needs, both professionally and privately.
Me, I'm a blue collar, non professional nobody..., I drive a cement truck, for feck sakes!
Somebody wants a file from me, they'll have to wait til tomorrow!!!

Timaximus said:

I personally don’t know what to do without OneDrive. Almost everything is on OneDrive and it works great to have all my files, private and for work, available everywhere at all times.

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I have had a love/hate relationship with OneDrive for a long time.

This thread has helped me to understand it a bit better, but not completely. Gonna have to get the tutorial to learn more.

Edwin said:

I guess, a lot depends on the individual and their needs, both professionally and privately.

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True. The only decision I see about one drive is “Do I trust my files online or don’t I?”
My answer was no, I don’t trust placing my files online. I don’t trust Microsoft (as I don’t trust Apple/Google/META etc etc) with my files.

antspants said:

The only decision I see about one drive is “Do I trust my files online or don’t I?”

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That too!!!
I will admit, it makes me a bit suspicious as to why they push the service so hard..., money..., loyalty, analytics??? Who knows!!!
They're your files, it's your PC..., I say, do your homework and do what's proper for your own purposes.

Nowhere in the thread has anyone mentioned that not everyone has access to fast and STABLE internet service. It's imperative for using any cloud service on the regular. Yet, it seems Microsoft assumes everyone does. That's the boat I'm in. My internet is very slow compared to most other folks these days and it's down a lot. Some of the time I go hours, even days with no internet. I can't rely on it but I have the best option that is available in my area. Infrastructure sucks when one lives in a rural area.

glasskuter said:

Some of the time I go hours, even days with no internet.

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That’s terrible, and unacceptable.

Ghot said:

Just choose quote.

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Thanks. But what I was asking was 'Can my response to your quote, when I chose quote, be inserted directly beneath (between where your quote was voiced in the thread and the next person's reply to the thread) your post? For example if I posted a topic, and you were the first to respond, and then there were 30 more responses, and I didn't get back to the topic till after those 30 responses, could I insert my response to you as the third response to that topic? (This is the way groups used to operate--sort of like outline form.
I think the answer to my question is "No" but I discover so many new (good!) things about this forum every day, that I was wondering...

And so long as we're on the subject of "quotes", what are "Multi-quotes"?

jro11 said:

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I got that recently. I believe I just said no or worked around it after clicking on continue. I can’t quite remember, but I know I still don’t have onedrive installed.

jro11 said:

Thanks. But what I was asking was 'Can my response to your quote, when I chose quote, be inserted directly beneath (between where your quote was voiced in the thread and the next person's reply to the thread) your post?

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Click “Multi” next to quote, on each post you want to respond to, then at the bottom of your new post you will see a box that says “insert multi quotes” and go with the flow, meaning, you’ll see what to do. There will be a space between each quote for you to respond.

Part of the problem is that when MS says 'backup your files with OneDrive cloud storage', they don't really mean backup. They mean, 'assign the default locations of Documents, Desktop, Pictures to remote OneDrive cloud storage, and REMOVE them from your local drive'. You can subsequently, optionally, configure things to be stored either persistently or ephemerally on your local drive. But remove something from OneDrive, and it's removed from your local drive.

If you don't want to have anything to do with OneDrive, before you delete it, if you don't want to lose all your stuff, make darned sure that you have reassigned Documents, Desktop, Pictures to your local drive. You can do this in the settings of the OneDrive app, or with some registry twiddling - there are scripts to do it here in the tutorials, I believe. Then opy the contents of the OneDrive 'Documents', etc. folders to your local folders.

IMO, MS descriptions of how OneDrive works are abysmally confusing and misuse the word 'backup'. But I don't want my stuff on anyone else's computer in any case, be it Google's GDrive, Apple's iCloud, or OneDrive.

TraderGary said:

A Microsoft 365 subscription gives you one terabyte of space on each device that you run OneDrive on.

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I thought is was per User. For example my Microsoft 365 subscription allows me 1TB of storage and 1TB of storage for anyone I share my Microsoft 365 subscription with up to the maximum limit.

jro11 said:

And so long as we're on the subject of "quotes", what are "Multi-quotes"?

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Go here and you can make a test topic, and practice quoting and multi-quoting.






Multi-quote...


Let's say you asked a question and 3 people answered.
At to bottom right of each response click on +multi


Then in a new post on the bottom left, click on "Insert multi quotes".

glasskuter said:

... not everyone has access to fast and STABLE internet service.

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If MS has their way, there'll come a day when your Windows PC won't even boot unless you have a reliable internet connection!!!
It's coming! Mark my words! The Prophet hath spoken!

@jro11


Like this....

Edwin said:

I was always intimidated with OneDrive since day one, for various reasons, and it stuck with me like an annoying allergy!
Nothing wrong with the concept, I just always shied away from it.
I have 200GB of free online storage and I use about 100th of it!
I don't really require online storage and, I have no need to share files collaboratively or socially.
If I need to share something, I just email it.

Power to those who find OneDrive invaluable, as well as those who feel the need to eradicate it from their systems!

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Timaximus said:

I personally don’t know what to do without OneDrive. Almost everything is on OneDrive and it works great to have all my files, private and for work, available everywhere at all times.

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Edwin said:

I guess, a lot depends on the individual and their needs, both professionally and privately.
Me, I'm a blue collar, non professional nobody..., I drive a cement truck, for feck sakes!
Somebody wants a file from me, they'll have to wait til tomorrow!!!

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Wynona said:

I have had a love/hate relationship with OneDrive for a long time.

This thread has helped me to understand it a bit better, but not completely. Gonna have to get the tutorial to learn more.

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antspants said:

True. The only decision I see about one drive is “Do I trust my files online or don’t I?”
My answer was no, I don’t trust placing my files online. I don’t trust Microsoft (as I don’t trust Apple/Google/META etc etc) with my files.

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Also.... when you see a quote... at the top left, you'll see the account name of the person that was quoted and a tiny arrow. If you click on that arrow... it will take you to the post where the quote came from.

You can even respond in between the quotes, to each person.

This forum uses new improved software, compared to most other forums.
Just click on things... and most will become self evident.

At the very top left, above all the threads... if you click on Forums and then scroll all the way to the bottom, you will find the link to the HELP topic, with other info...






More info...



I joined this forum a little over two years ago, and I'm still finding new things. ^^


Yes... there will be a quiz on Tuesday.

Is there a way to get office to stop wanting to save everything to onedrive?

jolly said:

Is there a way to get office to stop wanting to save everything to onedrive?

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Short answer = Yes. Longer answer = You have to learn to turn OneDrive On and Off. I'm still learning, though.

jolly said:

Is there a way to get office to stop wanting to save everything to onedrive?

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From memory, go into options of each program (word/excel) and look in the “save” section.