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Yep, this is one piece of good news. I run Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 in VMs for testing purposes for writing articles. Glad to hear I’ll be able to run the final release of Windows 11 in a VM without worrying about those pesky hardware requirements.

For anyone who wants to run the insider preview build for Win 11, there is one bit of good news. Microsoft’s hardware requirements, or restrictions, don’t affect the insider build. So you can run it in a virtual machine or other environment without the TPM 2.0 or Secure Boot requirements. I have it runnning in a VMWare VM without any problems.

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Will Fastie, Sueska

Not sure how to fix your specific issue. But with this type of problem I think it’s often best to remove and reinstall OneDrive from scratch.

First check your OneDrive online to make sure all your synced folders and files are there. Close the OneDrive system tray icon. Go to Settings and uninstall OneDrive. Download and reinstall OneDrive – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/download

After it’s reinstalled, open OneDrive settings from the system tray icon. Go through the different sections to make any necessary changes.

Now that you have a clean install, you can try any Symlinks or other customizations.

I went through all this recently when I migrated to a new desktop. I took an inventory of all the programs on my PC and narrowed the list down to just the paid ones. I emailed the support folks for each one to ask how to deactivate the license on one PC and reactivate it on another. Everyone I contacted responded and was very helpful. Of course, if you have a lot of paid programs, this process can be time consuming. But it saved me a lot of effort in the end.

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James Lawson

Your description of what you see when you check your OneDrive account does indicate a brand new OneDrive setup that hasn’t been used before. So that sounds right. I’m not sure why the Samsung cloud isn’t creating the Samsung Gallery folder under your Photos folder. That’s how it’s supposed to work as far as I can tell. I think you’re going to have to contact Samsung for help with that one if you decide you want to use it or just turn it off.

As far as a OneDrive subscription, you get 5G of storage for free permanently. The 15GB for free sounds like one of the special promotions offered in the past. I’m not sure if you’ll be able to keep the 15GB after a year, or if it’ll be cut to 5Gb. But you will have at least the 5GB at no charge moving forward.

Do you have any folders or files already stored in OneDrive, or just the ones that Samsung Cloud is supposed to be moving over? I have a Samsung phone with Samsung Cloud. I got the same message of Samsung Cloud going away and prompting me to jump to OneDrive. I went through the whole process. Under my OneDrive Photos folder, it created a subfolder called Samsung Gallery with all the photos and videos backed up from my phone. Do you see anything like that?

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

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