Using OneDrive as additional shared storage without syncing

I would like to use my onedrive space as an additional shared storage space that I can save files to as and when i want to without synching anything from or to it ,
Is this possible? I want to leave it switched on on all my devices but not synch anything. I want to choose which files I save to it,
This seems like an obvious use case but I can't find a way to do it. I can't even find a way to phrase what I am wanting to do that doesn't have Google tell me how to increase my onedrive storage space. I don't want to increase my storage space, 5GB would be plenty if it didn't try to synch everything every time I switch it on.

sorbetgunna said:

I would like to use my onedrive space as an additional shared storage space that I can save files to as and when i want to without synching anything from or to it ,
Is this possible? I want to leave it switched on on all my devices but not synch anything. I want to choose which files I save to it,
This seems like an obvious use case but I can't find a way to do it. I can't even find a way to phrase what I am wanting to do that doesn't have Google tell me how to increase my onedrive storage space. I don't want to increase my storage space, 5GB would be plenty if it didn't try to synch everything every time I switch it on.

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You can turn off synching and/or select which folders to sync. Additionally you can just upload files from a web interface.

You can use Onedrive on any device whether it's syncing or not (or even if Onedrive has been uninstalled) simply by going to Onedrive on the web. Drag any folder or file into the web interface and a copy of the folder/file will be kept in Onedrive.

From the interface you can also create folders, move files into folders, rename, delete files, & download files. You can assign links to folders or files that will share the folder/file with anyone to whom you provide the link such as in an email or even here in a forum post.

Furthermore, when you share a file you can set permissions on the file whether or not the person you share it with can edit it or not.

sorbetgunna said:

I would like to use my onedrive space as an additional shared storage space that I can save files to as and when i want to without synching anything from or to it ,

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By default, if you were to sign into a new computer and get OneDrive setup, Windows will keep all of your files in the cloud and you will only get pointers that look like your files in the OneDrive folder. Only when you click on a file and use it, would it be downloaded to your computer from the cloud.

sorbetgunna said:

Is this possible? I want to leave it switched on on all my devices but not synch anything. I want to choose which files I save to it,

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You can choose to save things in OneDrive or not. if you don't put in your C:\something\OneDrive folder, it won't sync to the cloud. Only things you choose to save their will go to the cloud.

sorbetgunna said:

This seems like an obvious use case but I can't find a way to do it. I can't even find a way to phrase what I am wanting to do that doesn't have Google tell me how to increase my onedrive storage space. I don't want to increase my storage space, 5GB would be plenty if it didn't try to synch everything every time I switch it on.

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You may just want to disable your auto backups of yoru desktop, your pictures and your documents to the cloud and just save the things you want to have on both this computer and the cloud to OneDrive.

Web access. Manually sign in to Microsoft site (live.com), access your OneDrive stoarge area, and click and drag files into there.

I faced this problem, onedrive steals your files once enabled, so you want it to be separate.
You can use 3rd party software, which allows to add multiple storages, like onedrive or gdrive.
Unfortunately most are paid like multicloud or incsync, you can try this one, the last one I tried.