onedrive

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?

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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?

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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

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.

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 ...

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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?

Think of it as a website to which you can upload your files, using
folders as it suits you.

There is also an "app" (built-in to Windows 10, but also available for
other Windows versions and even Android, etc. That app mirrors the
files and folders on the website on your PC/Laptop/Mobile. It's really
useful.

So I'll often work on a document on my PC, save it to my local OneDrive
folder, check it has synced, and then boot my tablet. Lo and behold,
after a minute or so, the file is in the corresponding place on my
tablet, and off I go to my meeting. If I need to use another machine, I
can always get it off the website.

Neat.

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Phil, London