Moving to the Cloud

[OspreyO]

I've avoided using cloud accounts on Windows 11 on my personal machines. Use OneDrive/SharePoint all day at work.

But think its probably time to move to cloud accounts at home on the Windows Machines. Pros and Cons?

Last time I tried it killed the machine trying to synch my photos (500GB) and music (50GB) to the cloud. My documents are only about 11GB.
My media drive I'll leave off line. But its becoming a pain when I switch computers at home and don't have my documents on it. Same with Cloud Photos

 

[Donnie Fisher]

The pros are as you describe that things are available across machines. Onedrive can even sync things like your wallpaper and desktop across machines if you are inclined that way.

I like one drive in some of the aspects that it does integrate well into windows ... but to me that was also a bit of an issue sometimes as well.

To me that integration took over too much at times, particularly around your 'My Documents' folder which I felt was a pain. I wanted to have my local computer, and then have one drive as a repository folder accessible through the cloud within my documents. but Onedrive took over top level of the local computer.

I.e. the machine became:

OneDrive
-> My Documents
-> Desktop

rather than

Desktop
-> My Documents
-> One Drive