Using OneDrive on your iPhone or iPad

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ONEDRIVE Using OneDrive on your iPhone or iPad By Lance Whitney Using the OneDrive app on your Apple devices allows you to cross that great Apple/Micr
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My one issue with OneDrive is that MS tout it as Cloud Storage, but often fail to explain that it is a synchronised back-up to the OneDrive folder on your desktop/laptop. I have yet to find a way to upload items to the OneDrive Cloud without saving them on my machine.

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You’re definitely right in that OneDrive is really a backup and syncing service, and it’s more integrated into Windows by default vs a service like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

You said you couldn’t find a way to upload items to OneDrive without saving them on your machine. I’m not quite sure how to answer that. Where would the items be located in the first place?

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Tony H

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I was looking to save some files to the cloud only. I can do this with GDrive, Box, DropBox, Mega etc but the storage in those clouds do not appear to have much space available without paying. I don’t see the point of saving files to both the cloud and to your hard-disc.

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I think I understand. In the OneDrive Settings tab in the Settings window, you can turn on Files On-Demand. That will remove all OneDrive files from your current machine and store them only in the cloud.

If you want to access one of those files, just click on it normally, and it gets downloaded to your PC just as you need it. You can also turn this on or off for individual files to decide whether to keep a file on your PC and in the cloud, or in the cloud only. Is that what you were looking to do?

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Tony H

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That sounds exactly what I need. Thank you

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