Windows 10 And One Drive

[taichiperson]

I've recently acquired a Windows 10 laptop, and uploaded some photos to it. I realised that as well as them being saved to the hard drive, they all ended up on One Drive. I have several SD cards that I want to put onto the hard drive, but I've already used up 90% of One Drive. Is there any way of getting the files onto the hard drive without saving to One Drive too?

[Guilbert53]

You can change the default save location in Windows 10

See this article below (I have not got a W10 PC nearby to test it but assume it works). If not just search for "Change default Windows 10 save location" in Google.

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-in-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

[Buenchico]

You need to enable 'Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage'.
(That's typical Microsoft logic. You need to turn something ON in order to STOP it!)

See 'Disable OneDrive in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10' here:
https://support.office.com/en-GB/article/Turn-off-or-uninstall-OneDrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

[taichiperson]

Great, thanks for your quick answer Buenchico, hope that does the trick.

[Hopkirk]

I've had a W10 laptop for years, and still don't know what One Drive is.

Can anyone help?

[hc4361]

OneDrive is cloud storage - it automatically backs up your files.

https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-gb/

[Guilbert53]

More and more companies are offering the chance to save your personal files "in the cloud". The "cloud" is basically hundreds of computers in a warehouse somewhere and you can save your files there rather than on your own hard disk (or as well as your hard disk)

Microsoft offer OneDrive to do that

Google offer GoogleDrive

And there is also Dropbox

There are other offerings as well

[Hopkirk]

I don't know if I've been using it.

[taichiperson]

I understand that it's to help access from different devices etc, but I'm a bit mistrustful of the service. Am I the only person able to access my photos?

[hc4361]

Yes

[Guilbert53]

>>>(That's typical Microsoft logic. You need to turn something ON in order to STOP it!)

You are not turning something ON you are changing the behaviour of something.

Your continuous sniping at Microsoft is really monotonous.

You had a go at the W10 Creators Update on another topic.

Have you ever tried to write an operating system? (I worked for IBM for many years and spent a lot of time testing software)

Would you like to try to write a piece of software that would run on EVERY Windows PC in the world. It is not easy.

There are billions of Windows PCs round the world, which can have all sorts of different hardware and software.

Hundred of different CPUs, different types of memory, different motherboards, different graphic cards, different hard disks, different wi fi cards, different sound cards, different devices (mouse, keyboard, printers etc).

All running different languages (have you ever tried to use a Japanese keyboard with Windows, I have)

Can you imagine how many combinations of hardware inside a PC that makes, millions and millions. How can any company (even Microsoft) test all combinations.

And think if I want to build a PC I can go out and buy dozens of different components, put them all together, and Windows will install on it and work. I think that is pretty amazing.

Please cut the Microsoft sniping and just answer peoples questions.

[hc4361]

I've been using PhotoBucket for years to back up all my photos - it's another form of cloud storage.

[HansUrbancka]

I wouldn't trust storing any information outside of my computer, even if the Cloud has a 'sky's the limit' for preserving printed paperwork and photographs. You can always store files on Flash Drives if they are items you wish to preserve .

Hans.