Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

[Harold Gough]

The opportunity (W10) to set it up keeps popping up. I am wary of it.

Harold

[Daveart]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

Hi Harold, I use Microsoft cloud works really well you can set up different folders and set each one independently is private your eyes only trends and family only or public, oh and a private view invite only.

I got the early one which I got 30gigabyte space I think now it is just 5/10gig space for free, does full size 1080 videos full length no extra cost only restricted by men space.
You can by extra space reasonable cost.

Good luck
Dave

[Harold Gough]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

Hi Harold, I use Microsoft cloud works really well you can set up different folders and set each one independently is private your eyes only trends and family only or public, oh and a private view invite only.

I got the early one which I got 30gigabyte space I think now it is just 5/10gig space for free, does full size 1080 videos full length no extra cost only restricted by men space.
You can by extra space reasonable cost.

Good luck
Dave

Thanks, Dave.

Might that be a good host for videos (ca 250,000 KB) to be viewed by links in forums?

I'm particularly nervous of its removal of duplicate files, as mine, in different folders often share image file numbers.

Harold

[Westy]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

I find it very good, just a bummer that Microsoft greatly reduced the free storage allocation.

[Naughty Nigel]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

I'm particularly nervous of its removal of duplicate files, as mine, in different folders often share image file numbers.

Harold

[steverh]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

I use Microsoft Office 365 and as part of the deal I get a lot of storage space on OneDrive. I find it really useful as a way of sharing folders of images with family and friends. I'm sure it would be equally useful for sharing videos as Harold suggests.

I haven't come across any problem with duplicate images being deleted. I have a folder on my main W10 machine which is synced with OneDrive and everything I want to share is in sub-folders from that. Duplicate file names shouldn't matter in theory but I have not tested it!

Usefully there are OneDrive apps so that you can also sync stuff to your phone or tablet in a controlled manner.

[Naughty Nigel]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

I use OneDrive on several machines. You can choose which folders are synchronised on each. And as Steve says, you can synchronise files on mobile devices.

Another useful feature of OneDrive is that it will allow remote access to non-OneDrive files on synchronised computers at home as long as they are switched on, and file sharing is enabled on the drives concerned.

One thing you may find is that files deleted on one machine turn up in the recycle bin on other synchronised machines, which is as well to be aware of this.

[Harold Gough]

Re: Windows OneDrive: Any Opinons/Experience?

Thanks for the comments.

I'm not into sharing files, images, etc. My interest is sharing videos is minimal (trail camera footage).

I don't think it's for me. I will probably disable it.

Harold