Taking Control of OneDrive?

nuspieds · 2026-08-17T22:54:43-0400

pparks1 said:
Sure, they want to generate revenue. Obviously there is going to be a relatively small amount of disk space given away for free. iCloud is 5GB free, Dropbox is 2GB free, Google drive is one of the best at 15GB of free space with Google Drive.

I think the key difference is that Microsoft provides something else of pretty solid value for paying for more storage space. Unlike the other vendors, you get the full Microsoft Office Suite. It's basically the pro version of Office too....not just the small home and student version. You get Mac and Windows versions. You can install on whatever you like. You can share your subscription with 6 people (if you buy the family account), and the primary sub holder gets the premium copilot features.

All in all, you get a whole lot for basically less money than any other provider charges you for far less storage. 6TB with Apple is $30 a month. or $360 a year. 2TB of Google drive is $9.99 a month. 2TB with OneDrive is $9.99 a year.

You know, although Google may be offering the largest free/initial bait of online storage with 15 GB and, okay, kudos to them, but that is still an insanely low amount of storage space in this day and age! Just my laptop full backup is 145 GB, so factor in my other files and a basic retention period, I'd say 1 TB of storage space should be the basic/initial bait!

Much as my OneDrive/Microsoft 365 subscription is included as part of my ISP service, should that ever change in the future, the reason I would still favor and heavily look at the Microsoft 365 plan is because, after starting with AWS and then transitioning to GCP and then transitioning to OneDrive, the best one that seamlessly integrates with Windows for my use case has been OneDrive.

nuspieds · 2026-08-17T23:15:42-0400

Marie SWE said:
To prevent onedrive (take control) so it cant start syncing without the users knowledge even with an evil update that enables it.. or a repair install enables it ..or your evil friend enables it...... In the firewall block the domains onedrive.com and... *.files.1drv.com
and you just killed onedrive
Edit: My first rule of evil systems that not always "stay put" under all circumstances... block the unwanted domains..

I fully appreciate and understand that, though not necessarily their own fault, some people do not fully understand OneDrive and how it works; as such, even something like this is not needed because OneDrive is not broken.

Case in point: On my system, OneDrive, by default, only syncs one-way from my system to OneDrive and I control all of that via the standard Windows File Manager UI. It's that simple and, most of all, it's important to note that although this is non-standard OneDrive usage, I am still able to enable this functionality with the standard Windows UI and without any programming or technical hacks.

Caledon Ken · 2026-08-18T08:23:08-0400

For the few people I help with Onedrive I always right click on OneDrive folder and then select "Always keep on this device". Then if they for some reason stop paying ( the 100GB option ) or end their M365 subscription their files are safe on their computer.

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