OneDrive: Still the elephant in the room.

Edwin · Sep 2, 2023

Ha!!!
I just logged on at OneDrivedotcom..., I've got a whole bunch of junk on there that I forgot about!!!

I don't think I've been on there for at least 2 years! I don't even have it bookmarked!

Edwin · Sep 2, 2023

Winuser said:
I didn't realize I even had any storage space with my Gmail account.

Joodis Preece!!!
I forgot about that too!!! :dizzy:

Winuser · Sep 2, 2023

Edwin said:
Joodis Preece!!!
I forgot about that too!!!

When I signed up I just Wanted an Email account. I guess the Email account that I setup for my wife has the same amount of storage available even though she never used it.

antspants · Sep 2, 2023

Edwin said:
Ha!!!
I just logged on at OneDrivedotcom..., I've got a whole bunch of junk on there that I forgot about!!!
I don't think I've been on there for at least 2 years! I don't even have it bookmarked!

It’s OK, Microsoft has finished with it and your data has been accumulated accordingly.

Dru2 · Sep 2, 2023

Edwin said:
Joodis Preece!!!
I forgot about that too!!!

I've had Google's Dropbox forever but never use it. I can't even find a reason to use it.

antspants · Sep 2, 2023

I keep getting dropbox emails “Where are you?” Apparently I have 4 accounts.

jro11 · Sep 3, 2023

jro11 said:
The OneDrive part: With that allotment one is also giving users access to the memory 'gifted' to you by Microsoft through OneDrive. You can either provide your 'children' access to the 1 TB allotted to you or you can provide each with 1 TB of their own. It has to do with settings associated with each instance of OneDrive. I'm sorry, but I'm so mired in problems with my Kernel error and OneDrive I can't investigate it right now. (Hope someone will fill this in for me.) I'll get back on this if I run across these settings.

The reason I said this is because the 'family' I allotted each of my 1TB OneDrives to did include family, but they also included the other computers I use. When I got onto one of these computers I was surprised to find it was sharing the 1TB of cloud with another of my computers--a neat trick, but not very sensible if I wanted to max out on all the memory available to my computers.

pparks1 said:
For One Drive, each Micosoft account, eg.... @outlook.com, or @hotmail.com, or @whatever.com that you have shared your sub with gets their own unique 1TB of OneDrive space. So, bob@outlook.com would get 1 TB, sally@outlook.com would get 1TB, and henry@hotmail.com would get 1TB. All of their space is personal, and it's not shared (by default) with any other people on the account, nor does their data or others data on the account count against their storage. Each MS account get's 1TB each.

The reason I don't agree that the 1TB of cloud is the default is because my inclination when I allotted the space would have been to do so as simply as possible, thinking that would be the default behavior.

pparks1 said:
It is PER USER account. Your understanding is correct.

It wasn't until I talked to Microsoft later, trying to sort out a problem relating to this that they walked me through a series of steps to ensure each computer got its own 1TB piece of the 6TB pie.

antspants said:
What will be worse, is that Windows wont open unless you have One Drive activated and working.

Again, I don't know if anyone noticed but I believe this free offer is still available--it says/implies a lot about Microsoft's cloud strategy.

Winuser said:
Thank you for confirming that I remembered right. I guess my old brain still has a few more miles left on it.

WHEW!!

Winuser said:
I shared my Microsoft 365 subscription with my son and I'm pretty sure he also has 1TB of OneDrive Storage. I do know that If he is using it, it hasn't effected my 1TB of storage space.

My first

pparks1 said:
Each ms account/user gets their own unique 1TB of space.

multi-quote experience!

Stigg · Sep 3, 2023

trevo · Sep 3, 2023

Winuser said:
I didn't realize I even had any storage space with my Gmail account. I just checked and I'm using 0.37GB out of 17 GB. Why 17 GB and not 15, I have no clue.

In the past Google have given away extra storage for certain tasks, I remember one was completing an Account Security Checkup for an extra 2GB.

trevo · Sep 3, 2023

Dru2 said:
I've had Google's Dropbox forever but never use it. I can't even find a reason to use it.

Dropbox isn't a Google product.

Ghot · Sep 3, 2023

Dru2 said:
I've had Google's Dropbox forever

Now Google Drive is insulted, and Dropbox is coming after you with a hatchet.

Dru2 · Sep 3, 2023

trevo said:
Dropbox isn't a Google product.

I stand corrected. It owned by Dropbox, Inc.

Anyway, that tells you how much I know about it and use it, though I have an account.

Winuser · Sep 3, 2023

trevo said:
In the past Google have given away extra storage for certain tasks, I remember one was completing an Account Security Checkup for an extra 2GB.

At the rate I'm using up space, I'll never have worry about deleting any emails.

jro11 · Sep 4, 2023

Here's a new one...

This just appeared on my screen, dark grey text on black background...

jro11 · Sep 5, 2023

It comes up on EVERY Startup and Restart.

Must be something Microsoft really wants you to have!

Try3 · Sep 5, 2023

I've never seen that.

WinSpy can often enable you to identify what is generating dialog boxes or other popups.
my ditty - identify a dialog caller using WinSpy - my post #8 - TenForums

Best of luck,
Denis

wimorrison · Sep 5, 2023

jro11 said:
Here's a new one...

This just appeared on my screen, dark grey text on black background...
View attachment 69953

You must have Visual Studio installed - App Center is part of it.

jro11 · Sep 5, 2023

Try3 said:
WinSpy can often enable you to identify what is generating dialog boxes or other popups.
my ditty - identify a dialog caller using WinSpy - my post #8 - TenForums

Have downloaded. Looking forward to using.

wimorrison said:
You must have Visual Studio installed - App Center is part of it.

Looks like I do! (apparently installed 8/10)--about the time I was downloading Python development tools.

Project right now is contacting MS Tech Support for my Outlook problem. (They apparently don't want to escalate the problem to Tier-2 support -
I think the Tier-number gets higher as the tech support gets smarter? i.e., ordinary joe, Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-3...

TM21 · Sep 6, 2023

Along the same line, I recently got an email from Google telling me that I've used up all my FREE Storage space at Google.
What? I had no idea that there was anything of mine being held in storage at Google.
It was no easy chore, believe me, to find where that storage is kept, access it and empty it out. But, brute force and ignorance prevailed and I finally emptied that box.
Just when you think that that you're safe, up pops Google, and you realize you're not as safe as you thought you were. They actually know more about you than you may think. Maybe even more than your mother!

antspants · Sep 6, 2023

TechnoMage2021 said:
It was no easy chore, believe me,

It never is. They push the boundaries to prevent you leaving. There’s always a loophole for them to deny easy access to close an account. They get grilled for it and just move it again. You search for “How to leave xxxx” and the info is 4 processes old.

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