New family storage limits from 6 TB to only 2 TB
I’m a little freaked out what I’m going to do with my entire family’s storage. Right now each of my kids and wife use nearly 1 TB for a total of nearly 5 TB. Since they are reducing this to a new “shared 2 TB” rather than 1 TB each, I am stuck either paying more money or finding a new solution. I am paid up into 2028. It seems terrible that I have paid for this and it is being taken away.
Change to OneDrive mounting Shared Libraries on MacOS
OneDrive usually mounts shared libraries on MacOS under a Shared Library directory and any items you choose to sync go to this location. Overnight it seems OneDrive keeps updating these mounts to separate directories. Is this an expected change? I am unable to find any release notes online about this but some users are still mounted the old way and some will mount the old way but after a few minutes onedrive will update the mounts to this new way. This changes the file paths to things and is breaking a lot of workflows. the major difference is that the old way had 4 things mounted in shared libraries and now all 4 of them are separate mounts
can't restore deleted files because storage/bin is full with said files.
Hi everyone, I'm using a university OneDrive account with a 50 GB storage limit; I was trying to empty my OneDrive onto an external hard drive to free up space. While doing this, I accidentally deleted some important files (around 60 GB in total). They're now in the OneDrive Recycle Bin, and I need to restore them because they're the only copies I have left. The problem is that OneDrive won't let me restore them because my storage is full. It says I'm using 120 GB out of 50 GB, so I'm 70 GB over the limit. However, the numbers don't seem to add up: My OneDrive folder's Properties on my PC show around 3 GB. The online Storage Metrics page shows only around 6.3 GB in my Documents folder, with very little space used by other visible folders. Even if I deleted the remaining visible files, it wouldn't be enough to bring my usage below the 50 GB limit. So I'm stuck in a loop: I need to restore the files to download them to my external drive, but OneDrive won't let me restore them because it's over quota. I can't find a way to download them directly from the Recycle Bin either. I've contacted my university's IT support, but so far they've only suggested deleting more files, which doesn't solve the problem. I've asked whether they could restore the files as an administrator or temporarily increase my quota, but the IT guy said they cant do either of those things...
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?
fichiers supprimés de onedrive
Bonjour, Suite à une mauvaise synchronisation entre deux appareils, des fichiers importants ont été effacés de mon onedrive. Le problème est que je m'en suis rendue compte après les 30 jours requis. Ils étaient également enregistrés sur mon disque dur mais ont été supprimés de tous mes appareils après leur effacement des serveurs. J'ai tenté de les récupérer via des logiciels de récupération, avec windows file recovery, j'ai essayé de remonter dans l'historique de mon ordi et de mon onedrive, de chercher dans la mémoire de tous les appareils qui étaient connectés à mon compte microsoft, mais rien n'y fait, je ne parviens pas à récupérer ces documents. Est ce que quelqu'un aurait une idée de génie à laquelle je n'aurais pas pensé? Merci pour votre aideHow to transfer all photos from OneDrive into a hard drive?
Need to transfer all photos from OneDrive into a hard drive. I'm almost running out of space on OneDrive, and I want to find a way to quickly download all of them somewhere, before deleting them from the cloud. Thing is, it seems like I have to scroll and drag click all of the photos; 3 years worth of them, which is really tedious to do. I was wondering if there was an easier way to just download all of them somewhere? Note that this isn't about the OneDrive files, it's the OneDrive photos section, which I don't think you could sync to your computer. I'm using a MacBook Air M1 2021, if it helps. Thanks!
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.
