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OneDrive for all my user profiles
When I got my new surface pro I went to set it up as recommended by some articles. First set up a user admin account. And also set up a standard user account for my daily access. Supposedly that was to facilitate security concerns. Well now I see that the Onedrive access from the two accounts are different. Headman account accesses all of my 4 gigabytes of Onedrive. But my standard user account seems to only access a small portion of my OneDrive. This is not convenient because the reason I use a Onedrive is to share files when I am signed in on my various but separate computers. I have tried to figure out how to configure but cannot make it happen. As a sideline, I do not use OneDrive to back up any of my main computers. I only use Onedrive to make files and folders accessible to all my various computers when I am signed in.
Does OneDrive Photos have face grouping like Google Photos?
Hi everyone! I've been using OneDrive Photos for a while and I was wondering if there's any feature that groups photos by face, similar to what Google Photos offers. In Google Photos, I can see all the pictures of a specific person automatically grouped by their face. Is there a way to do the same in OneDrive, or is this feature planned for future updates? Thanks in advance for your help!
What does the archive experience for OneDrive look like after the change to unlicensed accounts?
Based on this change, OneDrive accounts will be set to archive: Unlicensed OneDrive accounts subject to a retention policy, retention period, or legal hold will be automatically archived after 93 days of license removal. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/unlicensed-onedrive-accounts#enforcement-of-policy-changes-for-unlicensed-onedrive-accounts To test the experience, we attempted to run the PowerShell script used to archive a SharePoint site to a OneDrive site: Set-SPOSiteArchiveState https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/set-spositearchivestate?view=sharepoint-ps However, it does not appear that a OneDrive site type is supported with this script. Does anyone know what "archived" actually means in the context of a OneDrive account? Also, what will the experience be both from a user perspective and from an admin perspective? In SharePoint, there's a message indicating the site is in an archived state and admins can see a list of all archived sites via the admin center. I think a lot of confusion would be avoided if OneDrive "sites" appeared in a list like SharePoint sites do within the SharePoint admin center. Thank you!
OneDrive changing dates
I have an S24 ultra with pictures dating back to 2001 till the current day. I have thousands of family photos that I was able to gather and organize, and wanted them to be synced with OneDrive so I can access them on my PC and my phone. I decided to get OneDrive to be able to upload ALL of my gallery to OneDrive however, I noticed that around 80% of everything getting uploaded has its dates changed to the time it was uploaded, while a handful remains accurate. I made sure it wasn't the way I was viewing the folder and files, and checked the properties/info of the files and saw that all the dates and data were changed. Is there any way to fix this or prevent this from happening?😅 OneDrive Upload/Download Speed Help
Does anyone know of how I can improve my OneDrive download speeds? I cannot get my computer to download from OneDrive faster than 3.5-4.7Mbps. I've ensured my OneDrive settings do NOT limit my downloads I went so far as to plug my computer directly into my modem; even with 350Mpbs download and 650Mbps upload - still limited to really sub-4.0Mbps download speed from OneDrive. I understand my laptop hardware isn't limiting anything: CPU - 11th gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @2.40GHz Memory - 2x 16gb DDR4 Thank you for any and all recommendations, exploratory questions, or knowledge sharing!!!
Unlicensed OneDrive User Accounts - MS licensing changes?
I recently reviewed this article on changes to unlicensed OneDrives (departed users): Manage unlicensed OneDrive user accounts We currently have the user's OneDrive retention for deleted users set to 730 days. This allows for plenty of time to restore/recover/review data on a departed user's OneDrive. Looking at the Microsoft article, this now means that we would be charged for data retention over 93 days, since the OneDrive will be archived. We don't have Microsoft 365 Archive enabled, but if seems if we want to retain deleted OneDrives past 93 days, we need to do this. Has anyone done this? I don't want this to become prohibitively expensive for us. I assume that if we don't subscribe to MS Archive, the retention period is ignored and the OneDrives are deleted anyway? Comments welcome.Onedrive not uploading photos from my phone since early April 2025
Hello! I have a Samsung Galaxy S23 ultra and 2 Windows PC's. Since I purchased the Samsung phone I set Onedrive to upload photos through the "Camera upload" option NOT the "Gallery sync". If the phone is a Samsung, "Camera upload" button will be automatically hidden. But still, it still uploads photos if "Gallery sync" is switched off. Since I purchased the S23, "Gallery sync" I always kept it switched off. I don't want to use "Gallery sync" for 2 reasons : On my Windows PC I get duplicated photos, each photos are in : "\OneDrive\Pictures\Camera Roll" AND in "\OneDrive\Pictures\Galerie Samsung\DCIM\Camera" I don't like the path "\OneDrive\Pictures\Galerie Samsung\DCIM\Camera". When all my photos are in "\OneDrive\Pictures\", I think it's better organized. So even if "Gallery sync" was switched off and "Camera upload" is hidden, everything was working well since 2023 and my PC got all photos from my phone. Until the second of April 2025 when suddenly it stopped syncing. I think there was a OneDrive Android app update on the same day. How can I get my "Camera upload"? Also I think Microsoft should be users the choice between "Camera upload" and "Gallery sync", and both options should be visible. Thanks GZCan I Use OneDrive to Share PowerPoint Files With a Broad Audience
I am a recently retired professor. Several years ago, I wrote an introductory Statistics textbook called Clear-Sighted Statistics. This work is an OER (Open Educational Resource). It is available on the CUNY Commons and the U of South Florida OER website. This work has 19 chapters. Each chapter has Excel files. To date, this work has over 40,000 downloads. Unfortunately, I am not able to upload my PowerPoint lecture files to the two OER websites mentioned above. These files are such too large. My Questions: 1) Is it possible for me to use OneDrive to share this OER's 19 PowerPoint files with a large audience when I do not know who I am sharing with? I have 1TB of storage space that I get with the Microsoft 365 subscription that I buy. (As a retiree, my university no longer gives me a subscription.) 2) My work has a Creative Commons license. I want people to download my PowerPoints. I allow people to share derivatives of my work for non-commercial purposes only as long as they give me attribution. But I do not want anyone to change the files that exist on OneDrive, nor do I want them to add any files on my OneDrive site. How do I do this? Thanks, in advance, for your suggestions. Tiki-10025OneDrive SYNC client not showing 'Shared folder'
The issue of having the 'shared folder turned into an internet shortcut' was solved for me a week ago. as both of the accounts are migrated on new OneDrive (V2) but I'm facing another issue even after migrated to the v2. The problem is, In Windows OneDrive SYNC client, from its settings/account/choose folder, the 'shared folder' is not showing over there. Therefore, I can't choose which folder/file to sync (selective sync that's called), and all the other unnecessary folders into that shared folder, which I don't need or require, are being synced and downloaded on daily basis, eating my bandwidth as well as storage space. I mailed this issue to MSFT but they didn't respond with anything conclusive, except asking to uninstall/reinstall/reset OneDrive, which I already did everything, so posting it here. has anyone else faced or experiecning this same issue? Any workaround? My post in MSFT forum with screenshots here: Check this out for better understanding of this issue. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-sync-client-not-showing-shared-folder/cae9231f-4c02-4861-8a3b-aafe7b3e10c5
