Microsoft OneDrive: The basics

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onedrive Microsoft OneDrive: The basics By Lance Whitney Want to be able to back up and synchronize your files with Microsoft OneDrive but aren’t sure
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How is OneDrive at protecting against Ransomeware attacks–i.e., when a bad actor encrypts all your files and asks for ransom to make them available to you again?

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If you want a Onedrive icon in your folder instead of original contents and the have to go to the Onedrive folder to find then-fine.
Latest version started to transfer all my files automatically, barely got it to stop. Now I’m trying to put everything back where it was and can’t. Older version you could copy a file to Onedrive and keep the original in the original folder.
I don’t want or need all of my folders in Onedrive.

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I had the same problem with the newest version of OneDrive- started to transfer all my files automatically, stopped it, but it got My Documents folder, and now in My Documents folder only a shortcut to the OneDrive folder and have to go to OneDrive folder to see them.  If you want a Onedrive icon in your folder instead of original contents and the have to go to the Onedrive folder to find them.

No info about this from Lance Whitney or how to undo it.  I want My Documents files in that folder and not to have to click OneDrive shortcut to see them.

 

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I’ve noticed on a couple systems that even though I skip the backup of documents, pictures and desktop, the documents folder magically appears in the onedrive folder. One system had all 3 show up even though it’s set not to back them up.

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Interesting article, just wish I’d seen it a while ago!

One issue I’d like help with. I have a large collection of photos on my old PC, I treat One Drive as a back up of these files but want to keep them locally.  I have a new computer so want to transfer the files (thousands) to the new hard disk. What is the best way to achieve this? Simply downloading from One Drive was schedule to take days!   I tried copying via an external hard disk, but am very unclear what/if One Drive has made of this plan, masses of files all say waiting to sync, Although One Drive system tray says “up to date”!

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I had the same problem with the newest version of OneDrive- started to transfer all my files automatically, stopped it, but it got My Documents folder, and now in My Documents folder only a shortcut to the OneDrive folder and have to go to OneDrive folder to see them. If you want a Onedrive icon in your folder instead of original contents and the have to go to the Onedrive folder to find them.

No info about this from Lance Whitney or how to undo it. I want My Documents files in that folder and not to have to click OneDrive shortcut to see them.

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Lance Whitney- no replies to my post or others with problems with OneDrive.

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Is there a way to use OneDrive only for backup?  I didn’t realize til I was deep in the switch to a new PC with Win10, that all my data was going to OneDrive, and NOT to my drive.  Somewhat clumsily, I managed to delete everything there and fix it so nothing went there in the future.  I often have occasions to use my system with no internet access and I want all my data on my hard drive, but would be open to using OneDrive only as a backup.

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How did you  to delete everything there and fix it so nothing went there in the future.  In my Documents folder I now only have a link to the ONEDRIVE folder.  Want my documents back in the original folder.  No help from Will Fastie who has been writing all this stuff about OneDrive even though I asked him- he didn’t know.  I imagine many don’t want their original folders moved to OneDrive- mine started doing it automatically.  No solutions for restoring back.

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Good morning

 

I wish I had read these articles before I used OneDrive.  However I have been using it since I started the Mocrosoft Office subscription.  Not as a backup but as a simple method of transferring some files to my laptop if I was away from home and my Desktop PC . This has worked very well.  Then I decided to use the Cloud backup for a large folder on a separate drive.  ( Thousands of photos).  I made the mistake of assuming that nothing would be copied to the cloud unless i asked it to do so!!!  To my horror the three folders – Desktop, Documents and Photos have stated to synchronize and I cannot stop them  I do not use Microsofts Document or Photos folder. I ignore them and use my own data system.  I thought the two folders were empty as I had not copied anything into them.  However Windows 10 has filled the both with lots of items!!  All duplicated elsewhere on my hard drive.

My question – How can I delete everything from the cloud – without losing the originals?

Then, from your articles,  I now know how to copy my external hard drive folder to OneDrive cloud.

I hope someone can help

Best regards

Malcolm Jones

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