Re: Google Drive Vs Onedrive
Beaulah Mozie
My OneDrive is taking up a lot of space on my C drive. I thought OneDrive was in the Cloud. Did I set it up wrong? Any tips or ideas on how to save space on my C drive when I am using OneDrive? Thanks!
I was able to change the settings so the files are not stored locally, however, once you click on a file in File Explorer, then it downloads locally. Is there a way to stop the downloading when you click on the file or is the only way with the right-click then View Online?
If you simply click it, without opening the file, it should not be downloaded. If it does download it, it means you have some additional software messing things up - check every "scanner" type of application you have, as well as every application that has added entries to the right-click menu, applications that generate file previews/templates, etc.
Yes, the files only download locally if I double-click them. So then if I no longer want them locally I have to right-click "Free Up Space"? I am just curious as we are going to have several users that will share and edit files out of a Team OneDrive and I don't want a bunch of local copies on each users C drive.
Well that's the "on demand" part - applications need to have access to the entire file to work with it. If you don't want that to happen at all, ditch the sync client and only access OneDrive via the browser.
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@Vasil Michev
Still confused. I have a lot of crucial data on my PC D: drive. I tried to put into the OneDrive cloud as a backup and to be able to access it from elsewhere. It ended up putting a lot of it, but not all, on my C: drive, who knows why. I now have two versions of some of the data. This poses a serious dilemma. It doesn't seem to sync but I'm afraid that if I delete the C: drive version, it will also delete the critical D: drive version. I just don't understand OneDrive at all. It promises so much but delivers a hotchpotch. Can someone please explain it in plain English, not computer jargon?
@Bobapingu I am in the same boat. I would like OneDrive to mirror my C: drive and serve as a backup, instead I think I also have two or three versions of the same data. Also, every time I change anything in a file, OneDrive immediately begins to process the changes. This is great for small files, but when I am working with >1GB rasters is ESRI ArcMap OneDrive consumes my college-budget internet.
@Brandon4121
I feel your pain. OneDrive appears to be a poorly thought through concept intended to push everyone onto cloud storage. That meant someone else holds all your private and intellectual property. Despite all the security safeguards, when you die, who gets to own your IP? Your next of kin? No, they won't know where to find it if they even know it exists. Possession is nine tenths of the law and Microsoft possesses it. Adobe and others are doing the same thing with photographic IP.
I have a lot of photographic data and private correspondence that I keep on an internal D: drive. This gets backed up on an internal E: drive and the E: drive is mirrored onto an external X: drive. I thought I could simplify matters by using OneDrive, exactly as you thought. Not so! I found I had the same data in triplicate on OneDrive, the C: and D: drives and never sure which was the latest. In frustration, I checked every file for age, deleted the older files and kept the latest on D: drive. So effectively I'm now happily out of OneDrive. I must say, this was my third failed attempt to use OneDrive. I may still be paying for the 1TB of storage that I never used. That still needs to be checked.
I don't even understand OneDrive despite Mocrosoft continually telling me it's easy. Yes, maybe I'm dumb. However, your proposal sounds like a whole new level of complexity overlaid onto OneDrive. Way too dangerous for my precious files.
I totally agree ... I just bought a new desktop and I was using OneDrive to sync between my laptop and desktop - until I suddenly got all these messages about running out of space ... wouldn't open certain crucial documents. What a mess! I do not recommend OneDrive at all. Not user friendly at all!
It is taking up most of my space on my C drive. I wanted to temporarily backup Onedrive from the C drive to a thumbdrive because I am going to move onedrive to a larger hard drive, and I do not trust that Microsoft will loose my data somewhere in the process. The problem is when I backup the data from C drive to the thumbdrive, instead of copying the data from C drive, Onedrive wants to download the data from the cloud. With the nearly 1 terrabyte of data I have stored there, it is going to take 40 hours to download and use up my monthly allotted amount of data I can download from my internet provider. I am trying to figure out why it is trying to download it from the cloud if I am copying it from my local C drive. If I turn off the network and try to copy it from the C drive, it tells me that an unknown error has occurred. Then when I move onedrive to another drive, it is going to try and download the 1 terrabyte of data again. What a truly stupid system.
Yeah, so many things bug me about Microsoft, Please don't get me started. I even received my MCSE and a few other certifications from them back in the 90's and early 2000's, and I still fight with their over bloated Windows that does not always work right. For example, my search, cortana, news, DTS, and a few other Microsoft apps always stop working at random times on all my computers. Anyway, I finally got my onedrive moved to another drive but never made a backup to a USB. I was frustrated with Microsoft again and needed a place to voice my displeasure. Thanks for the response.
I have this primary OneDrive account, which has the same login as the entire computer on 2 different computers. This works perfectly, then earlier today i wanted to pair another OneDrive account as a mapped network drive. On computer #1 it worked flawlessly so i know i am doing it right, i right-click Network in the File Explorer, Map Network Drive..., enter a drive letter, enter the " ", reconnect at sign-in, and Finish, then i simply logged in and everything was perfect, it synced up to OneDrive and everything.
But, it did not go as smoothly when doing it on computer #2. I did the exact same thing, but now it shows up with a Network Error message box when i click Finish. It says "Windows cannot access " with large bleu text and underneath in black smaller text it says "Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose."
I tried running diagnostics by just pressing the button in the message box, but it said it found no problems. I even rebooted the computer in Safe Mode with Networking, still same problem. I also tried with "\d.docs.live.net@rithansodo \DavWWWRoot\CID\" still doesn't work, the exact same error.
Same problem. 1 day after i created a network drive it now has a red X over it. Tried resolving it unsuccessfully so I disconnected it. Went through the same setup procedures and it attempts to login to my account and then the popup window simply reverts as if i hadn't tried. In a roundabout way, I saw the word restricted. I recently had a major catastrophe with Windows 10 and had to boot from a USB with the latest version which was different. Thats a 3 day story. I changed the name of my PC so rather than looking at a serial number, I'd know which device it was. I believe that, that caused the problem. I'm the only user on this PC and my user account shows it as the Administrator but the message when trying to set this up says that either my security is restricting me or Microsoft is restricting me. You'd think that message could be any more vague? So, maybe Microsoft has the old computer name in a database and now it doesn't match? Just a guess. if you changed either your PC name or your Microsoft name its probably the problem. I'm going to change my PC name back if I can figure out what it was.
Busy with this also. But adding via CID_NUMBER gives me an acces denied error. And credentials are copied. How to fix this? Navigating to the URL leads to the screenshots' page.
Using Windows 11 with Personal Onedrive
You should be aware that the excel is a file that can be saved on any drive (remember, GSheet is fundamentally different) and the info that is saved inside the file depends on the cloud service, OneDrive for example.
So you have to wait for OneDrive to update your file (from the cloud and to the cloud).
Thank you
In practice, in an excel file I have a data table of about 40 rows and 10 columns
I created a script, which at 01:00 am deletes this data for me to update by copy and paste the next day.
With google sheet as soon as I synchronized the APP that read the table immediately updated me the new data.
With excel onedrive When it updates in the morning The o app takes a long time to display the new data.
Changes to a Google Sheets spreadsheet are saved as you make them: as soon as a change is saved, it is available to AppSheet. With Excel, the changes you make to the spreadsheet are available to AppSheet only after you close the spreadsheet.
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