Gah!!! OneDrive is infuriating!!

[WelshBloke]

How the flipping heck (that was hard to write!) do you upload all your photos from a windows 10 PC?

This should be simple. I've got about 100GB of homevideos and pictures that I want to backup to onedrive.

They are on my G drive and will onedrive let me upload it? Will it bumpers (we need to get rid of the no swearing in these forums!).

I have to copy 100gb of stuff into my C:\Users\welshbloke\onedrive\pictures\pictures folder and upload them to onedrive from there.

Why cant I just upload them from where I store my photos? And if I can why doesnt Microsoft make it easier to do that?

 

[lxskllr]

Dunno the answer, but I wouldn't trust it with anything you care about. Aside from MS spying on your files, they can(and probably will) snatch it away at any time. MS handles products/services the way an 8 year old handles toys. It's all wonderful until 10 minutes has passed, and it's forever forgotten.

http://arstechnica.com/information-...of-the-free-onedrive-storage-its-taking-away/

 

[WelshBloke]

I need some off site redundancy. I've got just over 1TB of space to fill, may as well use it.

Its stuff I've got backed up with Google anyway (which was a much more streamlined process) so the spyings a moot point in this instance.

 

[MongGrel]

I've never went near one drive myself yet. It's on a couple rigs here, but haven't used it.

I am leery of it, all ready have my drives the way I like them.

 

[WelshBloke]

I've never went near one drive myself yet. It's on a couple rigs here, but haven't used it.

I am leery of it, all ready have my drives the way I like them.

Yeah, I wouldnt use it for anything that would be disastrous to be leaked. I also wouldn't trust it to be my only third party, cloud based backup (I wouldnt trust anything to be that), thats why I have that sort of data splurged all over the cloud. Having it in a number of places stops me for being held "data hostage" as well.



Completely understand why people might not want to use it.

 

[Ketchup]

I have folders that I share on my local network. I do NOT want those folders shared on the web, and that is why you have to move the files you want to share to a different folder. Different sharing (and security) settings for a folder like that.

 

[KB]

Did you setup the onedrive app? If you did it sets your onedrive like a usbdrive in explorer then you just drag your photos into it. Easy as pie.

You cant pick your sync folders though. It stores local copies in its cache.

 

[WelshBloke]

Did you setup the onedrive app? If you did it sets your onedrive like a usbdrive in explorer then you just drag your photos into it. Easy as pie.

It's not really an app in windows 10, it seems to be part of Explorer.

You cant pick your sync folders though. It stores local copies in its cache.

Which means that one drive is taking up about 250GB of space that it doesn't need to on my SSD.

 

[WelshBloke]

I have folders that I share on my local network. I do NOT want those folders shared on the web, and that is why you have to move the files you want to share to a different folder. Different sharing (and security) settings for a folder like that.

Why isn't there a sensible option in the right click menu that says "share folder to onedrive"?

 

[Lorthreth]

How to Change the Location of the OneDrive Folder in Windows 10

Do that and in the last step setup it so that it points to a folder in G drive?

 

[WelshBloke]

How to Change the Location of the OneDrive Folder in Windows 10

Do that and in the last step setup it so that it points to a folder in G drive?

Oh! Cheers for that. I'll try it later. :thumbsup:


I have no idea why Microsoft have chosen such an user unfriendly system. Just having a right click "sync to onedrive" option in Explorer would seem a no brainer. Also some google like tools for music and photo uploads from the PC wouldn't go amiss either.


Also Onenote, thats a pain in the posterior as well.

 

[Berryracer]

How the flipping heck (that was hard to write!) do you upload all your photos from a windows 10 PC?

This should be simple. I've got about 100GB of homevideos and pictures that I want to backup to onedrive.

They are on my G drive and will onedrive let me upload it? Will it bumpers (we need to get rid of the no swearing in these forums!).

I have to copy 100gb of stuff into my C:\Users\welshbloke\onedrive\pictures\pictures folder and upload them to onedrive from there.

Why cant I just upload them from where I store my photos? And if I can why doesnt Microsoft make it easier to do that?

here's how I do it.

Install Windows,

after installing all drivers / doing all windows updates

Create a folder called One Drive in your D: Drive, or G: Drive in your case

now when setting up OneDrive for the first time, don't let it use the default location, instead, point it to the OneDrive Folder in G:

I then move all my libraries to that folder, like Documents, Pics, Music, Videos

so everything I do is synced to OneDrive

All my pics, videos, docs are on OneDrive

After the initial setup is done, after about one minute, go to the OneDrive settings and make sure they look like this:

 

[Berryracer]

Also Onenote, thats a pain in the posterior as well.

Tried OneNote, not user friendly at all, hated everything about it. Evernote FTW

 

[notposting]

<- snuggles closer to W7 (and even W8.1, oddly enough)

 

[Puffnstuff]

Look in the notification area on the task bar, right click on the onedrive icon and select settings to bring up the dialog box and set the folders.

 

[WelshBloke]

Look in the notification area on the task bar, right click on the onedrive icon and select settings to bring up the dialog box and set the folders.

That just gives you this...

Which is annoying as theres at lest 100gb in both my photos and music that I want to back up.

 

[WelshBloke]

Tried OneNote, not user friendly at all, hated everything about it. Evernote FTW

Glad you said that, I thought it was just me.

Just sharing a shopping list with the wife is just ridiculously difficult using it.


Microsoft are really, really good at some things but they seem to not have a clue what they are doing sometimes.

I absolutely feel that I could do a better job of designing some of their apps, and I'm a complete numpty.

 

[OlyAR15]

There is an article on Ars Texhnica about MS back-tracking a bit on cutting storage limits: http://arstechnica.com/information-...of-the-free-onedrive-storage-its-taking-away/

This was the most illuminating point that explained why I was having such a hard time using OneDrive:

At the heart of this is a conflict between how people used the OneDrive storage, and Microsoft's objectives for the service. The Redmond firm does not want to be in the "dumb storage" business equivalent to that of, say, Dropbox. What Microsoft wants is for OneDrive to be the glue for other services with true value-adds—things like Office 365, Groove Music, and, more broadly, Windows 10—not just a dumping ground for all their files. The Office 365 deal, for example, should be seen as "Office 365 with a place to store all your documents," not "a place to store all your files, with the added bonus of access to Office 365."
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[readymix]

That just gives you this...

Which is annoying as theres at lest 100gb in both my photos and music that I want to back up.

I don't really want all this syncing so I uncheck all and do up and down through the web app. Primarily though, onedrive is my vehicle to get stuff from my pc to ipad.

 

[TheSiege]

Google photos works well too

 

[WelshBloke]

There is an article on Ars Texhnica about MS back-tracking a bit on cutting storage limits: http://arstechnica.com/information-...of-the-free-onedrive-storage-its-taking-away/

This was the most illuminating point that explained why I was having such a hard time using OneDrive:

At the heart of this is a conflict between how people used the OneDrive storage, and Microsoft's objectives for the service. The Redmond firm does not want to be in the "dumb storage" business equivalent to that of, say, Dropbox. What Microsoft wants is for OneDrive to be the glue for other services with true value-adds—things like Office 365, Groove Music, and, more broadly, Windows 10—not just a dumping ground for all their files. The Office 365 deal, for example, should be seen as "Office 365 with a place to store all your documents," not "a place to store all your files, with the added bonus of access to Office 365."
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Who the hell has 1TB of documents?

Google photos works well too

Google photos works extremely well. (the Google music uploader works just as well)

 

[jhansman]

I have no less than four (One Drive, Box, Dropbox and Gdrive) cloud storage options on my system, now totaling some 300GB of available space . All came to me free over time, and I thought I'd give each a try to see if any one was better than another. Nope. In me view, they are all clunky and unintuitive. I have innocuous files on each, just to keep the accounts open, wondering if one day I'll have an epiphany about how great the cloud is and why didn't I get it before, but that bolt from the blue has yet to strike.

That said, I probably use Gdrive more than any other; but it's integration with other Google services leaves much to be desired. I agree with the previous comment that MS is offering cloud space in an attempt to get users over to Office 365 and other fee/cloud-based solutions. Me? I use my new 2TB external drive to store and/or back up everything I really care about. This infatuation with the cloud seems to be a product of companies making a buck off of it, not consumers clambering for it. It all reeks of the "Golly gee whiz, it's the future now, get on board." mentality that has overtaken. At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, cloud storage is solution looking for a problem. Eventually, I will likely dump them all and remain local.

 

[Berryracer]

Glad you said that, I thought it was just me.

Just sharing a shopping list with the wife is just ridiculously difficult using it.


Microsoft are really, really good at some things but they seem to not have a clue what they are doing sometimes.

I absolutely feel that I could do a better job of designing some of their apps, and I'm a complete numpty.

don't get me started man, when OneDrive first launched, I gave it a try, it was a fail, then with Office 2016 I thought they had improved it, same thing. Try this, create a note, then delete it, then watch how it never gets deleted from the OneNote files when you view your OneDrive online, it just keeps coming back like a virus! Even its basic functionality doesn't work man.

 

[tommo123]

i have 5 1TB onedrives accs and used my phones LTE to upload 2 TB so far (also local copy kept, backups onto another drive as well as backed up in backblaze also - damned backblaze wont let me upload on my phone though!).

onedrive was much better under win8. everything would be organised and every now and then i'd copy a folder from my PC and paste it into the onedrive folder. i'd skip existing files and only upload new ones. easy.

how the hell do you do that now when you've got thousands of folders and subfolders without uploading the lot?

i managed to remove onedrive fully off win10 but couldn't install the old win8 version
that was ideal. especially with android app onesync (and dropsync for dropbox).

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as far as storage limits are concerned, there's a history of this. i was with bitcasa and it was quite cheap but after a year (ish) the cost jumped massively and instead of being unlimited, it was usage based so someone with a lot on there couldn't afford to keep their data there.

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as far as usage, i have about 800GB of holiday photos, over 1TB now of videos. as for documents, i only have about 300GB.

used google photos was decent but a problem a while back made me stop paying the extra for storage and me telling them to f off. tried the free 1TB flickr thing but getting photos on there was a fecking nightmare. something went wrong each time with photos jumping from one group to the next or some such.

sorry, this ended up as a random rant didn't it?

 

[corkyg]

In my world, OneDrive serves no useful purpose. Once I got 10/1511 stabilized and working as I wanted, I disabled OneDrive. It no longer bugs me - same for MS Edge.