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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
Hi Tim Hunter,
You should consider filePod.
filePod is miniature, encrypted, cloud-enabled, personal storage device (with support for up to 2TB SDXC card). It can be configured with as many OneDrive accounts and you can use it on any of your computers interchangeably.
To your computer, it looks like a simple USB flash drive but it has its own quad-core processor and does all the synchronization between your cloud storage accounts independently and automatically using its own WiFi connection. So you can even switch computers and continue working on any of your laptops at any time.
It will also natively work with other cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Google Drive allowing you to easily move your content around and organize it the way you want it. It is now available on Kickstarter -- http://msonedrivee.fnd.to/filepod
A small, personal, smart quad-core computing device with up to 2TB SDXCUse as an ordinary USB drive (e.g. via Microsoft Explorer)Add as many OneDrive accounts you like
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.
