One Drive

[murraymints]

it appears my one drive is nearly full..that's a cloud thingy.was not even aware I had it..if that is full can I still continue to save pics etc to hard drive on lappie only ?

[bhg481]

Yes, but don't forget that you'll need to back them up regularly in case of HDD failure on your laptop. External HDDs are cheap, just plug in to a USB socket and you can drag-and-drop files to it.

[Old_Geezer]

You are saving stuff to something you weren't aware you had ?
Something not even part of you PC equipment, to boot ?
Oh dear.

[1ozzy]

If your "one drive" is full please think about what you are saving and how you are saving it.
Need to look at PC settings me thinks.

[murraymints]

save everything to an external HD too.... seems anything you save goes to the cloud thingy OG whether you want it or not

[murraymints]

only photos oz

[1ozzy]

It doesn't go to the cloud thingy automatically unless your PC is set to do so Minty.

[murraymints]

can't seem to find the setting for it oz..any ideas ? win 10

[1ozzy]

I have w10 on my indoors 'putor.
On xp in my workshop.
Never had this problem with either.
Might be a setting in cloud thingy that does it.
Check your profile settings.

[flyingdancer]

Hey hey ! What is a one drive ?

[murraymints]

seems it comes preinstalled and default..but cant find how to turn it off

[murraymints]

dancer..it's a cloud storage thingy

[bhg481]

They cunningly give you 5GB free and then offer to increase your space for a fee - £1.99 a month for 50GB is the next step up.
If you prefer cloud storage to having your own external HDD have a look at MEGA - a New Zealand company that give you 50GB free, although it's not automatic like One Drive ie, you have to send files there like you would to an external HDD.

[murraymints]

but can I continue to save and it go to hard drive is my question ?

[bhg481]

Murray - look at the first word of the first response you got.

[murraymints]

ta BHG xx me a bit techyignoramus !!

[IJKLM]

One drive is a Microsoft cloud storage utility. I have it available ( I subscribe to Microsoft Office 365), but never use it. I store stuff locally on the hard drive, and also in the cloud on DropBox.

All these cloud storage systems, such as One Drive behave a bit like an external drive. They are convenient if you access those files from different computers.

If you don't use different computers, then they are a pain and actually worse than having everything stored locally, because you can only access the files if you have internet access.

I use Macs, but a quick search on copying files fom OneDrive to your local drive yields this:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files-winpc/moving-folders-from-onedrive-to-c-drive/533ba15d-44df-4da3-a7b8-78e59de4316c

Once you have copied to your own computer, you can clear the pictures out from the OneDrive

If you want to prevent this happening in future, this link might be helpful:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mobiledevices/forum/mdlumia-mdcamera-mdlumia500/how-to-stop-syncing-photos-in-camera-roll/7c5b28dd-70fd-4423-87fc-746eab1dd1fc

Good luck!

[murraymints]

ta IJKLM

[murraymints]

Your links were fab KL

[bhg481]

I know I replied first but I wouldn't be at all offended if you transferred BA to IJKLM.