How Could I benefit from One Drive?

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I had to reinstall Windows and noticed new features, namely One Drive the icon of which annoying sits on the task bar like a rain cloud. Bitdefender has also noticed it and selected to be the first app to load on boot-up.

I've had a home computer for about twenty years and I've never stored data on anything other than floppies (remember them?) USB sticks and external HDDs.

I think One Drive offers a measly 5GB of data - a 50p USB Stick would have more storage.

Can anyone (please) offer-up some "must have" reasons for me to keep it?

If I uninstall it, will it be gone forever? MS objects have a tendency to reappear?

Thanks
 
I use it quite a bit. All my documents folders, photos/media are automatically uploaded to my one drive storage. So its an easy backup of my files.

However i get 1 TB storage through my Office 365 subscription.

Not sure if you can uninstall it but you can make it stop loading when windows boots.
 
I have an external 5tb Seagate drive which backups my data on a daily/startup basis.

I bought Macrium Reflect, mainly to image the "C" Drive and the purchased home edition has file backup (I haven't had time to go into that yet). I store, music, Videos (none of those Chroniclard!), pictures and documents on drives other than the C Drive.

When you say Uploaded, do you mean a copy is stored on your hard drive AND a copy is Uploaded to One Drive?

Presumably if you didn't have internet access; you wouldn't have access to One Drive, is that correct?

Thanks
 
I do not let it do its newer default thing now and back up the Documents and Desktop etc, it is a mess and trying to revert it was a nightmare.

Now if I clean install Windows I remember to go right in and change Onedrive settings the way I want it to work so my Documents and Desktop does not get moved to the cloud.

I have 1TB due to Office 365, the newest feature (not sure if due to I am on Beta) is a Secure Vault folder, I need my phone to unlock it via a 2-Step Verification code.
 
Belly said:
I have an external 5tb Seagate drive which backups my data on a daily/startup basis.

I bought Macrium Reflect, mainly to image the "C" Drive and the purchased home edition has file backup (I haven't had time to go into that yet). I store, music, Videos (none of those Chroniclard!), pictures and documents on drives other than the C Drive.

When you say Uploaded, do you mean a copy is stored on your hard drive AND a copy is Uploaded to One Drive?

Presumably if you didn't have internet access; you wouldn't have access to One Drive, is that correct?

Thanks
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Correct. Uploads to the "cloud" and you have a local copy.

Onedrive also installed on my server box which syncs another copy, so have several offline copies and the online backup.

Its useless without internet.
 
If you are not using OneDrive it can indeed be uninstalled, its just MS bundled cloud storage and similar to the likes of Dropbox and google drive etc.
 
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