Is One Drive right for simple storage
I'm looking for simple cloud storage for my pictures and documents that I don't want to keep on my computer. I want to be able to access the files easily and I want to be able to control what gets uploaded, when it gets uploaded and when it gets deleted. Is One Drive right for this kind of use?
OneDrive Basics
I'm wondering if someone could help me determine what went wrong. I have a new laptop ("New Laptop") and the goal was to migrate all my files (documents, pictures, etc) from the old laptop ("Old Laptop") to New Laptop. So I created a Microsoft OneDrive account and called it [olduserlaptop]@hotmail.com. I then uploaded everything from Old Laptop onto Onedrive, then logged into New Laptop, signed in under the same account, and downloaded everything. I came as a Zip file onto New Laptop and I extracted it. So far so good, right? Well when I look at the new laptop and the extracted files, the only thing that was there was the folders and directories - NO ACTUAL FILES. Does this make sense to anyone? If so, can someone explain? While I don't Old Laptop immediately available, I can get to it and access the old files but to me I shouldn't have to do this. Thanks in advance for any help.
OneDrive from Windows Server 2025 for remote users
I have a client that, when I started working with them, had a small staff that kept regular business hours. I set them up with a Windows Server with Active Directory and File and Print Services as well as secure internet access. Over the years, the staff has gotten smaller, and currently consists of the two partners who split their time between working in the office on workstations on their domain and from remote locations on laptop computers connected via WiFi or their cellular provider to the internet. Previously, I had their workstations using OneDrive to store the contents of the server's shared volumes in the cloud so they could be accessed from their laptops. Unfortunately, this didn't work very well presumably because the workstations in the office had to be on in order to update the contents in OneDrive. I upgraded their server to Windows Server 2025 and created an account for the server to directly use OneDrive to store the contents of its shared volumes, and shared those resources in OneDrive with the partners' laptops. Since the server is always on, I presumed that OneDrive would stay up to date. Unfortunately, the shared volumes in OneDrive are still not up to date with the contents of those volumes on the server. What am I missing? Can someone explain the nuts and bolts to me so I can compare them with what I've already done, so I can fix this lag?
OneDrive for Mac, can't log in
Brand new mac (Mini M5), brand new install (macOS 27.0), all other office apps log in perfectly. But I can't get OneDrive to log in. I enter my email address, click on next, it says loading for a few seconds, then quits. Open onedrive again, same again. That's it, that's all I get. I need to be able to access my OneDrive files from the filesystem, the same as I did on my old system. I'm not after temporary workarounds such as using web, I'm seeking to get this actual problem fixed. Any suggestions?
OneDrive storage bugged
My OneDrive is displaying that I have used 293% of my storage space but when I go to my plan, it says I should have 1Tb of storage. This recently changed so nothing backs up anymore because it thinks I'm over my limit. Does this have anything to with OneDrive not working with Samsung sync after this month or is there something else going on?OneDrive won't allow installation on fixed D: drive
Since 24 Sep 2026, OneDrive refuses to use my internal D:\ drive, even though the OneDrive build and Windows haven't changed. This applies to my Personal OneDrive and institutional OneDrive accounts. Build 26.168.0830.0006 (per-machine install, installed 20 Sep 2026) synced both of my accounts to D:\ normally from 20 to 23 Sep. At the 24 Sep morning boot, OneDrive could not find either folder. Setup now rejects D:\ with "Your OneDrive folder can't be created in the location you selected," and Learn More links to the article on external drives. The rejection persists with my existing folders (after renaming them) and with a brand-new empty folder (D:\ODTest). E:\, an identical Crucial T500 4TB NVMe in the motherboard's native M.2 slot, is accepted. The only difference is that D:\ is attached through an M.2-to-PCIe adapter card in an internal PCIe 4.0 slot (in place since Nov 2025). Windows reports D:\ as Fixed and NTFS (Get-Volume, DriveInfo, Win32_DiskDrive), and it does not appear in Safely Remove Hardware. Dropbox on the same drive is unaffected. With the build unchanged and Windows Update paused, this looks like a server-side change in how OneDrive classifies drives. Please restore support for internal NVMe drives attached through PCIe adapter cards.Working with ONE DRIVE
Good evening, everyone. I’d like to ask a few questions about OneDrive: If I have OneDrive active and am working on a Word document stored on my local drive, when I finish and click "Save," where is it saved—locally or on OneDrive? If I pause synchronization with OneDrive—or, better yet, uninstall the OneDrive app—what happens to the files currently in the OneDrive cloud? Will they be lost? I would appreciate your feedback. Regards. Luis Fernando.
