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OneDrive taking up space on C drive
You might want to read up on it a bit. Assuming you are using recent W10 version, you can configure Files on demand: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-onedrive-files-on-demand-in-windows-0e6860d3-d9f3-4971-b321-7092438fb38e?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
I don't even understand OneDrive despite Mocrosoft continually telling me it's easy. Yes, maybe I'm dumb. However, your proposal sounds like a whole new level of complexity overlaid onto OneDrive. Way too dangerous for my precious files.
I totally agree ... I just bought a new desktop and I was using OneDrive to sync between my laptop and desktop - until I suddenly got all these messages about running out of space ... wouldn't open certain crucial documents. What a mess! I do not recommend OneDrive at all. Not user friendly at all!
I am a former Network Administrator and Onedrive still drives me bonkers.
It is taking up most of my space on my C drive. I wanted to temporarily backup Onedrive from the C drive to a thumbdrive because I am going to move onedrive to a larger hard drive, and I do not trust that Microsoft will loose my data somewhere in the process. The problem is when I backup the data from C drive to the thumbdrive, instead of copying the data from C drive, Onedrive wants to download the data from the cloud. With the nearly 1 terrabyte of data I have stored there, it is going to take 40 hours to download and use up my monthly allotted amount of data I can download from my internet provider. I am trying to figure out why it is trying to download it from the cloud if I am copying it from my local C drive. If I turn off the network and try to copy it from the C drive, it tells me that an unknown error has occurred. Then when I move onedrive to another drive, it is going to try and download the 1 terrabyte of data again. What a truly stupid system.
- Yeah, welcome to OneDrive. It's really weird. Microsoft showers us with platitudes ad nauseam over OneDrive yet they are totally crap at explaining what it really is. I use it purely as a backup and forget drive and interact with it as little as possible because it's just too hard.
Wow, I was surprised to see many disgrantled users of One Drive, I thought I was the only one. Why doesn't Microsoft address these issues?
1. I found documents on One Cloud that I could care less about (auto safe I guess...?)
2. Docs That I wanted saved are not there
3. One drive sucking up C drive memory, thought I clicked stop using internal memory on the options
4. I always forced to desktop the saving of some docs and when I realized they went to a one drive desktop (why is that existing..?) I tried to copy them unto the real C desktop but the folders would be empty.How can I tranfer them when I see them in one drive but then only the folder shows empty on C? thanks for the help Bobapingu
