dropbox to onedrive

Mrs Seabiscuit · 4 Jul 2015 at 08:14

I appreciate this may need to be moved to a more appropriate sub-forum.

I want to move everything (40gig of photos) from dropbox to onedrive the only way I can see to do it is to download all photos to my pc and then re upload them to one drive. Is this the only way?

Minstadave · 4 Jul 2015 at 08:22

Mrs Seabiscuit · 4 Jul 2015 at 08:24

Cool beans

Thank you 150mb download and ssd

Cosimo · 4 Jul 2015 at 08:41

This appears to be a popular method and there are others services that do the same, some do charge a few dollars.

Mrs Seabiscuit · 4 Jul 2015 at 09:11

Thanks Cosimo, but its onedrive not google drive I need.

Thanks though good sir!

Buffman · 4 Jul 2015 at 09:29

I did the same ie downloaded and then upload.

Can one drive documents /folders be removed on a host pc but be kept on the cloud? Where is the option to do this?

LordSplodge · 4 Jul 2015 at 09:54

Mrs Seabiscuit said:
I appreciate this may need to be moved to a more appropriate sub-forum.

I want to move everything (40gig of photos) from dropbox to onedrive the only way I can see to do it is to download all photos to my pc and then re upload them to one drive. Is this the only way?

Question; why do you need to 'download' them to your PC? Dropbox works by keeping a local copy of the files,mother should already be on the PC (assuming said PC has Dropbox installed) and all you'd need to do is copy them to the OneDrive folder.

Also; Ewww, OneDrive.

Mrs Seabiscuit · 4 Jul 2015 at 09:57

LordSplodge said:
Question; why do you need to 'download' them to your PC? Dropbox works by keeping a local copy of the files,mother should already be on the PC (assuming said PC has Dropbox installed) and all you'd need to do is copy them to the OneDrive folder.

Also; Ewww, OneDrive.

Because Lord Splat I have 48gig of photos when my dropbox is 9gig was an 02 thing of free dropbox space for 2 years so I need to back stuff up elsewhere. Are you an apple fan? why dont you like onedrive?

asim18 · 4 Jul 2015 at 10:16

I'm surprised with the fact that people have actually started to completely disregard local copies :eek:

Paired with the fact that the "cloud" just scares the crap out of me. I don't like the idea of my photos being looked at and being used to improve computerised image analysis as well as other shady things. 40GB of photos is a huge payload for Skynet, but I guess someone has to feed it.

Simi · 4 Jul 2015 at 10:29

asim18 said:
I'm surprised with the fact that people have actually started to completely disregard local copies

Paired with the fact that the "cloud" just scares the crap out of me. I don't like the idea of my photos being looked at and being used to improve computerised image analysis as well as other shady things. 40GB of photos is a huge payload for Skynet, but I guess someone has to feed it.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

LordSplodge · 4 Jul 2015 at 10:36

Mrs Seabiscuit said:
Because Lord Splat I have 48gig of photos when my dropbox is 9gig was an 02 thing of free dropbox space for 2 years so I need to back stuff up elsewhere. Are you an apple fan? why dont you like onedrive?

OneDrive tends not to integrate into iOS apps so that's its biggest downside for my workflow. However Dropbox is expensive, I've got about 20GB of space for free for life due to promotions but I have around 60GB of photos. They go in iCloud Photos (200GB of iCloud storage costs me £2.99)

I'm actually indifferent to OneDrive for the reaso, as seen above, that it doesn't fit how I work. A career in IT hasn't made me much of a Microsoft fan though but it pays the bills.

Why not use Goolge Drive?

Mrs Seabiscuit · 4 Jul 2015 at 11:15

LordSplodge said:
OneDrive tends not to integrate into iOS apps so that's its biggest downside for my workflow. However Dropbox is expensive, I've got about 20GB of space for free for life due to promotions but I have around 60GB of photos. They go in iCloud Photos (200GB of iCloud storage costs me £2.99)

I'm actually indifferent to OneDrive for the reaso, as seen above, that it doesn't fit how I work. A career in IT hasn't made me much of a Microsoft fan though but it pays the bills.

Why not use Goolge Drive?

I dislike apple.

We pay for office 365 which gives 1TB of space so I use One drive for that reason. I tried google drive and could not get on with it.

Redgie · 4 Jul 2015 at 11:21

Every time I get a new Android phone I get another 64GB of storage on Dropbox. I symlink most of my user profile to it so I know there's always a cloud-based backup. Aside from that I don't really use it...

LordSplodge · 4 Jul 2015 at 11:23

Mrs Seabiscuit said:
I dislike apple.
We pay for office 365 which gives 1TB of space so I use One drive for that reason. I tried google drive and could not get on with it.

1TB of OneDrive space is nice. Still wouldn't be nearly enough to get me to pay for Office 365 though.

Mrs Seabiscuit · 4 Jul 2015 at 11:55

LordSplodge said:
1TB of OneDrive space is nice. Still wouldn't be nearly enough to get me to pay for Office 365 though.

Destination · 4 Jul 2015 at 12:06

How much is office 365, I thought it was only 5 or 6 pounds a month?

Buffman · 4 Jul 2015 at 12:27

Hikari Kisugi said:
How much is office 365, I thought it was only 5 or 6 pounds a month?

I got it for 40quid for 4 years student membership

. Anyone got an answer to my q above?

The Craig said:
I did the same ie downloaded and then upload.

Can one drive documents /folders be removed on a host pc but be kept on the cloud? Where is the option to do this?

Minstadave · 4 Jul 2015 at 12:38

Hikari Kisugi said:
How much is office 365, I thought it was only 5 or 6 pounds a month?

You can buy year cards, prices vary a lot. I get the 5 user subscription and buy them when on offer. Last lot I bought were £40. The codes stack so you can buy a few years worth when they're cheap.

Minstadave · 4 Jul 2015 at 12:40

The Craig said:
I got it for 40quid for 4 years student membership . Anyone got an answer to my q above?

Yes you can remove all local files and just keep cloud copies, just right click on the one drive icon down by the clock the option is there. I put all my old photos as cloud only to save SSD space. They're backed up on my home server anyway.

Scam · 4 Jul 2015 at 13:06

My freebie space on Dropbox recently ran out too, so I'm looking at swapping to Google Drive. £1.99/month for 100gb seems pretty fair. I like Dropbox but I think their cheapest package is £9.99/month for 1tb which is overkill for me.