OneDrive Backup: A large window popped up on my screen from OneDrive. It wants to back up my computer. I clicked on Start, and it did what I suspected. It said I have to buy more...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A large window popped up on my screen from OneDrive. It wants to back up my computer. I clicked on Start, and it did what I suspected. It said I have to buy more storage. I don't think so. What surprised me was that there were no choices of what I wanted to back up. It began with Folders, and it was going to back up all folders. I guess their goal was to get me to pay a "small monthly fee," so more the folders the better.

BebuLamar

One Drive kept asking me to backup my computer so I uninstalled it. I don't want it to waste my internet bandwidth and processor cycles to do that.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I turned off the "automatic" aspect of One Drive.
I only access it manually, and "I" tell it what I want copied.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

I turned off the "automatic" aspect of One Drive.
I only access it manually, and "I" tell it what I want copied.

I've given up on OneDrive. It was extremely slow, while GoogleDrive was almost instantaneous.

therwol Loc: USA

jerryc41 wrote:

A large window popped up on my screen from OneDrive. It wants to back up my computer. I clicked on Start, and it did what I suspected. It said I have to buy more storage. I don't think so. What surprised me was that there were no choices of what I wanted to back up. It began with Folders, and it was going to back up all folders. I guess their goal was to get me to pay a "small monthly fee," so more the folders the better.

I think that the complete backup feature isn't the same as the automatic folder backup feature of One Drive where you can choose what folders you want backed up/synched. I let One Drive keep a backup of my Desktop and nothing else. The complete backup is for catastrophic failure and restoration to a previous state.

As for Google Drive, it isn't free past 15 gigabytes. I'm already getting warnings that I'm close to the limit and that I can buy more storage.

Am I mistaken in believing that the MS full backup feature can be placed somewhere else besides One Drive?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

therwol wrote:

I think that the complete backup feature isn't the... (show quote)

I use Google Drive just for sharing files with other people.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

The first thing I would do is uninstall everything having to do with OneDrive. BUT, if it has run for awhile, everything you store will be in the OneDrive folder instead of the user/mydou.. or program data files or browser files such as favorites or cookies, and you’ll find that even if you put everything back where it should be, you may still have issues such as losing “recent files” in Office or corrupted data files if you use Outlook

I HATE OneDrive. It’s Microsoft’s sneaky way to get you to use their cloud service (and ultimately pay for it) everyone knows I endorse the cloud for a disaster recovery copy of your data, but that’s not what one drive is. It’s not just a standard backup, it’s a sort of hybrid cloud model - at any moment unless you just “synced”, you have no idea where your file actually is - locally or in the cloud (which means slower access).

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

TriX wrote:

The first thing I would do is uninstall everything... (show quote)

I hate it too!
I turned that puppy OFF as fast as I could!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

TriX wrote:

The first thing I would do is uninstall everything... (show quote)

I just tried to sign in to see what I had there. I needed my email address. After entering it, MS said that I had two accounts. Did I want to use the one I created or the one created by my IT department? I don't have an IT department. 😁

Then, it wanted my password. Naturally, it didn't get filled in automatically. The P/W I have written down doesn't work, so I have to reset it. I got in, but I have nothing saved. Good.

Red6

I have never used it but now after reading some of the comments here, I think will investigate it more and turn off or even eliminate it as others here have.

I have a recovery disk and backup my data to my own backup drive regularly so I feel I have little need for cloud storage. Especially one that I would have to pay for!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

I just tried to sign in to see what I had there. I needed my email address. After entering it, MS said that I had two accounts. Did I want to use the one I created or the one created by my IT department? I don't have an IT department. 😁

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Not sure, does each Windows computer create an account per license (computer)?

I have one account I started when I was still running Win 7 on the old desktop.
"WE" have another because we have Office (initiated on my wife's laptop. Much more storage that the freebee account.)
Now you have me wondering about the one on my laptop that I turned off... I've just been manually logging into the one I had initiated on the desktop.
Do we have two or three one drive areas, or four???????

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

Do we have two or three one drive areas, or four???????

I think the term OneDrive would be incorrect in that situation.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

I think the term OneDrive would be incorrect in that situation.

But I do store stuff in one location.

Schoee Loc: Europe

TriX wrote:

The first thing I would do is uninstall everything... (show quote)

I have certain folders synced with OneDrive but not complete computer back up. You can choose that a folder’s contents are always on your pc as well as copied to the cloud so the file is there when you switch on. The best thing for me is that after editing a photo there is a copy of my work saved in the cloud within seconds. I create additional backups but not immediately.
Once you know how it works I think you will find it very useful. I have a 365 subscription so I get 1 TB storage for each of 6 accounts.

BebuLamar

jerryc41 wrote:

I think the term OneDrive would be incorrect in that situation.

Yeah besides your files are physically stored on hundred of drives.