Onedrive is full

[Donkey Oaty]

Is there a simple way of switching the default cloud storage from onedrive to Google drive? I just have the free 20gb storage on onedrive but I pay for storage on Google.
Or, could I transfer everything from Google to onedrive and start paying for storage there.
Thanks for any replies.

 

[Cowabunga]

Is there a simple way of switching the default cloud storage from onedrive to Google drive? I just have the free 20gb storage on onedrive but I pay for storage on Google.
Or, could I transfer everything from Google to onedrive and start paying for storage there.
Thanks for any replies.

The simple way for most ordinary people would be to sift through Onedrive and delete all the garbage you must have accumulated over the years that you will probably never look at or need again. Apart from my photos, probably two thirds of my documents could be deleted and I would never miss them. Unfortunately the photos and videos take up by far the most space. Everyone's different of course and I'm sure there must be a way to migrate from one Cloud to another. However, unless you have very very fast fibre connection and unlimited data allowance, it could take literally a week or more on a slow line to do so.
I pay for extra storage with Apple but also use OneDrive in a more limited way, specifically for the Office365 suite and documents thus created, and also Google Drive, but only pay Apple [if you ignore the subscription fee for Office365 which I must have for the business]

 

[ollie989898]

Is there a simple way of switching the default cloud storage from onedrive to Google drive? I just have the free 20gb storage on onedrive but I pay for storage on Google.
Or, could I transfer everything from Google to onedrive and start paying for storage there.
Thanks for any replies.

I would just pay for some more OneDrive in all honesty. It is no better or different than Google Drive in my view. You get 1TB free with an Office subscription.

 

[Dman2]

I set to deleting what i thought were files duplicated on one drive.
Turns out they were only on One drive, and i was deleting the only copy I had.
How can i stop files being taken from my PC and moved into the cloud?
Fortunately managed to recover them before they were permanently deleted

 

[Cowabunga]

I set to deleting what i thought were files duplicated on one drive.
Turns out they were only on One drive, and i was deleting the only copy I had.
How can i stop files being taken from my PC and moved into the cloud?
Fortunately managed to recover them before they were permanently deleted

You can choose which folders are stored only in the Cloud. You can also choose to leave a copy on your local drive, or not. I think.
Certainly when I save my spreadsheets I can choose to either save locally or in the cloud and if I save locally I can choose to copy that folder to the Cloud, if you see what I mean. This caused me a lot of confusion to begin with because I have to 'save as' and a location. It seems that if Office autosaves it goes to OneDrive but if I save locally it needs to be saved manually and periodically as I work. There may be other options but it works just fine for me now without delving further into the details. In the beginning, when I wanted to print 12 month's worth of a certain spreadsheet, some were missing. This was when I found that some were saved in OneDrive and some locally, which was totally disorganised. One or two were saved as templates as well which is why I have virtually no hair left on my head.

Every day is a learning day!

 

[ollie989898]

As above, Office needs to be told where to save things. I would not bother to save things on your machine these days as I don't see any advantage (for those of us who have a reasonable internet connection at any rate), because there is no reason to do so- I can load a file from OneDrive as fast as loading from my own hard drive and the beauty of OneDrive is that I can access my files instantly, on any device, anywhere I like (don't ask why but I am now running 3 computers and my phone for good measure!!!) and they are there and waiting and updated and saved in real time basically, irrespective of which device I work on at the time.

I've listed the benefits of cloud storage before. People may understandably be reticent about storing sensitive personal data or financial information on OneDrive but there are other providers you can pay to provide a cloud service for this kind of thing with even tighter security and other measures in place.

As I said, cloud storage is pretty cheap and MS give you 1TB to play with for the cost of an office subscription so none of it need break the bank and it will all be there safe if your machine ever got stolen or self combusted or suffered some kind of malady.

 

[JJT]

I set to deleting what i thought were files duplicated on one drive.
Turns out they were only on One drive, and i was deleting the only copy I had.
How can i stop files being taken from my PC and moved into the cloud?
Fortunately managed to recover them before they were permanently deleted

I think if you delete something on one drive, you have 30 days to retrieve it from the one drive "recycle bin" before its gone forever. Also you can get previous versions of files from one drive if you save a change you didn't mean to which can be useful at times.

 

[Donkey Oaty]

I have subscribed to 365 Business Basic. This seems to be the simplest solution.
Thanks for the suggestions and comments.

 

[ollie989898]

I have subscribed to 365 Business Basic. This seems to be the simplest solution.
Thanks for the suggestions and comments.

Just make sure MS Office and it's applications are saving documents to the OneDrive by default and not locally on your PC. Might not be an issue but I seem to remember MS Office when I first installed it a while ago wasn't saving to OneDrive which sort of defeats the object of having OneDrive in the first place. Files stored in this way are accessible at all times from any device that connect to the web- your phone, laptop etc.

 

[tracymmartinez15]

Bro, did you solve this problem?

 

[Donkey Oaty]

Bro, did you solve this problem?

Who or what is a Bro??