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Can someone explain onedrive for me?
Of what I gather it is a cloud storage app. This is what I am looking for. The defaults of what is stored (Documents, Music, Pictures), and how much storage I get, is fine. How do I set it to sync? Can I sync anytime I want? I did a web search and just can't follow what is said. The onedrive settings don't seem to have what I want. What am I missing? -- Not a professional opinion unless specified. dale - http://www.dalekelly.org/ |
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On 04/01/2018 20:12, dale wrote:
I did a web search and just can't follow what is said. The onedrive settings don't seem to have what I want. What am I missing? You are missing a fully functional brain. That's all. OneDrive is just another remote storage for users. They can store their documents (whatever they may be!!!) and access them on any device and in any global country that allows access to Microsoft servers. Google has something similar and it is called Google Drive. Does this help you or is this Greek to you? -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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dale wrote:
Can someone explain onedrive for me? Of what I gather it is a cloud storage app. This is what I am looking for. The defaults of what is stored (Documents, Music, Pictures), and how much storage I get, is fine. How do I set it to sync? Can I sync anytime I want? I did a web search and just can't follow what is said. The onedrive settings don't seem to have what I want. What am I missing? You can do site specific data mining in Google. For example: site:tenforums.com tutorial onedrive sync Since the feature set on things like this is constantly changing, you need to collect a lot of "opinions" before you'll get some idea of what to expect. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html The "Related Tutorial" web links at the bottom of the page, will provide further background. The owner of that site, owns a number of sites. He has vistax64, sevenforums, eightforums, tenforums, as well as writing news articles for other sites. Some of the tutorials are forwarded from sevenforums, and edited as needed. So there is some taking advantage of features that existed in other OSes. I would think the OneDrive feature set though, you'd best get that info from tenforums to get close to current info. AFAIK, it should sync continuously. As soon as a file is closed (committed), the OneDrive software could read the NTFS journal and see a newly committed file is present. And then upload it so all the PCs feeding off that OneDrive account can see it. The primitives are there, to make it totally automated. But since I don't use OneDrive, and don't ever plan on testing it, I'll (personally) never know :-) I can't even see a situation where I'd want to put "test.txt" on my "free" account. Only my Insider installs use an MSA, and that's all I have to test OneDrive with. My regular installs use local accounts. Paul |
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On 01/04/2018 03:12 PM, dale wrote:
Can someone explain onedrive for me? Of what I gather it is a cloud storage app. This is what I am looking for. The defaults of what is stored (Documents, Music, Pictures), and how much storage I get, is fine. How do I set it to sync? Can I sync anytime I want? I did a web search and just can't follow what is said. The onedrive settings don't seem to have what I want. What am I missing? In it's simplest form you just save files and/or make folders etc in the One Drive folder in your home directory. C:\users\loginname\OneDrive Windows takes over and does what is necessary to make an exact copy on the cloud. I don't use OneDrive but I do use Google's GoogleDrive. But they are for the most part the same. I use google drive between computers a lot. I save some important files I reference and would want to share from PC to PC and OS to OS. I can then see them anywhere. ie: I have a password program that stores it's encrypted database as a local file. Well, I just happen to put it on GoogleDrive. Now if I load that same program on another machine, I get the same database and the changes are always there no matter where I am. Google I think gives 15G of storage by default, however so far I'm not using 1G yet. |
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On 1/4/18 3:39 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 04/01/2018 20:12, dale wrote: I did a web search and just can't follow what is said. The onedrive settings don't seem to have what I want. What am I missing? You are missing a fully functional brain. That's all. I was going to write an exception for this type of feedback ... -- Not a professional opinion unless specified. dale - http://www.dalekelly.org/ |
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