Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
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Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
This thing drives me crazy. MS touted it as cloud backup but it seems to jack with all my files.
Today I woke up to find that a folder with the latest versions of a 300 page novel was totally gone. I was keeping main copy on it with subfolders of prior versions and accessing from diff devices. I thought it was working out good.
But now sync has wiped it out. What is the secret to this thing? What are the criteria for removing a folder?
MS wants to charge $39 for remote access.
Today I woke up to find that a folder with the latest versions of a 300 page novel was totally gone. I was keeping main copy on it with subfolders of prior versions and accessing from diff devices. I thought it was working out good.
But now sync has wiped it out. What is the secret to this thing? What are the criteria for removing a folder?
MS wants to charge $39 for remote access.
Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
Log on to Onedrive.com and check your Trash folder.
Files that are deleted are not deleted right away.
It is not a backup. It is a sync/mirror service. If you delete from PC A, it "syncs" PC B to that same action.
Files that are deleted are not deleted right away.
It is not a backup. It is a sync/mirror service. If you delete from PC A, it "syncs" PC B to that same action.
Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
Yep. Been using for several years. No issues so far.. Paying $2/month automatic credit card charge... Maybe I got the rate from years ago. Seem to backup instantly whenever I save something. Recently transferred to a new PC and it did not miss a beat. You might try some MS forum and get better answers there on the problem.
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Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
This. The Trash folder may show up as a 'Recycle bin' link in the left navigation.
If the Recycle bin is empty (or these files aren't there), the other thing that can happen occasionally is for a folder in the locally synced OneDrive location to be accidentally moved within File Explorer (assuming Windows 10). In this case, a search for the missing document title might help.
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Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
MS called it a backup but I know what you're saying.
What I'd really like is non syncing cloud storage for manual backups. Besides my two external drives.
EDIT: Okay, I found it. Somehow I dragged off under another folder. Have no idea when or how that happened, mea culpa.
But it reminds me what I don't like about OD. Usually if you drag and drop a file to an external or different virtual drive, it just copies it. But if I drag and drop something to onedrive or from onedrive, the whole thing just moves.
I would like to just be able to drag and drop newer versions to a cloud drive without losing it locally.
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I use Onedrive both for syncing and for plain old backups. Basically created a backup folder structure, and set it to not sync. Will look specifically how I did that...
I put the phrase "No sync" in the folder names for those as a reminder to myself.
I put the phrase "No sync" in the folder names for those as a reminder to myself.
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Let us know the novel when it's released. Maybe you should mention bogleheads in the credits? Good luck with your writing!
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Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
Sorry, I don't use OneDrive.
Assuming you can recover your information, you might want to switch to
another service.
Though I have access to OneDrive, I use Box for work, and Google Docs for personal.
Google Docs is even available on my Android phone.
Assuming you can recover your information, you might want to switch to
another service.
Though I have access to OneDrive, I use Box for work, and Google Docs for personal.
Google Docs is even available on my Android phone.
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Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
Long time Windows user when you click a file in the same drive or your documents you can easily drop it in another location it happened to me quit a few time this is not a new feature or bug it was designed to not make copies. they implemented it similarly in One drive ( I jumped on it with $99 family plan for office 365) .
I like one drive much better than Google Drive in the sense you can literally keep 1 TB on cloud but just access them only when you need it really nice feature.
I like one drive much better than Google Drive in the sense you can literally keep 1 TB on cloud but just access them only when you need it really nice feature.
Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
I don't know what you mean by "usually," but in Windows Explorer, if I drag and drop a file into a different directory, the file is moved not copied.montanagirl wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:09 pm [...]
But it reminds me what I don't like about OD. Usually if you drag and drop a file to an external or different virtual drive, it just copies it. But if I drag and drop something to onedrive or from onedrive, the whole thing just moves.
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This behaviour applies whether within the C drive or to an attached backup hard drive.
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This is what iTunes does, if I am not mistaken, which is why I've always been tremendously scared of using it for anything - and I always copy my iPhone photos to local hard drive before ever messing with iTunes!
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Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
Yes but to an external or different virtual drive it is copied.an_asker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:02 pmI don't know what you mean by "usually," but in Windows Explorer, if I drag and drop a file into a different directory, the file is moved not copied.montanagirl wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:09 pm [...]
But it reminds me what I don't like about OD. Usually if you drag and drop a file to an external or different virtual drive, it just copies it. But if I drag and drop something to onedrive or from onedrive, the whole thing just moves.
[...]
This behaviour applies whether within the C drive or to an attached backup hard drive.
I think of onedrive as external.
I used Box at my old job and that was more to my liking.
Re: Help, anyone else use OneDrive?
To avoid confusion I right click on whatever item(s) I want to move/copy selecting the desired action (copy or cut) and then right click and paste into the destination.
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I did something like this to create non-syncing folders:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/off ... n-us&ad=us
Not quite sure this is what I did, but similar at least.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/off ... n-us&ad=us
Not quite sure this is what I did, but similar at least.