How to use OneDrive (Full Tutorial!)

[@The-prosperity-Hub]

1. you are a very good teacher. 2. for someone with little knowledge on computers, you have just empowered me. thank you very much

[@AzizulHakim-cb5zt]

Amazing explanation, sir. You won my heart.

[@MajorBonMarita]

Precise, helpful ***** presentation! Was having trouble grasping 1Drive, but many thanks to You, Jonathan, I don’t anymore!

[@willdo969]

Your video is so helpful. Really appreciated it.

[@leedshealth7289]

Hello - Absolutely superb introduction and coverage of One Drive , thankyou. You have a great delivery , really appreciate the clarity with which you explain things plus that background etc really give perspective and context - great work.

[@WarriorV8]

He also have a great beard Cheers for the tutorial!

[@zzooeecastles]

great vid im autistic and your facial expressions make it easier to follow and understand also warms up the vid :)

[@clevelog]

Thank you for the suggestion to use two factor identification. Excellent video. Thank you again.

[@ivand8702]

I didn't understand how to use windows coming from using chrome os but this video was extremely helpful thank you for making this video

[@JohannaDreyer]

Finally a well rounded and succinct description. Just subscribed, feel I can learn alot from your channel. Spent hours trying to sync my laptop, phone and Ipad. My lower task bar had the 'cloud' greyed out, and wouldn't let me sign on because I use Hotspot for everything, and it wanted WiFi. Btw love the accent and the beard 🧔

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks Johanna!

[@glenagarrett4704]

Nice intro video, wish I'd known about it before my disastrous initial interaction with OneDrive. After I bought a new laptop I uploaded everything to OneDrive set it to sync to the new computer, and then after that occurred, I ended up turning off sync, disabling OneDrive on both computers, and then using a thumb drive to copy my files from the old computer and overwrite all the downloaded documents on my new computer. In fact, with my connection speed, it took about 1/10th the time and I had all my original create and last edited dates back. I understand the usefulness of backup but cannot understand why it would now show your own create or edit dates as well as the sync date, which would be much more useful. It does not display (could not even find where it even recorded on the uploaded or downloaded/synced documents) the date I myself created, last edited, or downloaded (separate from or before uploading to OneDrive). The sync date is stored on my computer so it looks like all my files were created on the last sync instance. Unless there's a method I haven't been able to find I cannot see/track my own actions on the file, only what OneDrive does. The aversuib ti this is based on prior experience needing that info for legal purposes and also for sentimental reasons in tracking the dates that pictures were taken, when I scanned letters or notes from friends or family, etc. Having been in the US Armed Services, this sort of data was essential in several instances for my own self-protection. It was also true in my work as a contractor. I wonder how this affects things such as legal documents, invetigatory issues, etc. There may be more depth of data that I could not find, so if I'm wrong, perfectly OK. Just not apparent to me and I did do a few hours of exploration and testing but could not find whether or not the originator's edit dates were available in OneDrive's database.

[@christinethompson-sanxter2968]

Thank you for your excellent tutorial.

[@marion6068]

Simple and pleasant presentation, very helpful. Thank you Jonathan.

[@MaciekDwojak]

Very good, crystal-clear tutorial!

[@laurenriesner9207]

Fab video! One Drive is no longer a mystery to me! Thank you! ❤

[@sarahbatsford1057]

Thank you for this. Well explained😁

[@hassanmaje5849]

The most difficult thing is how to organise your files and folders and your work. Things start from one place and end up somewhere else because of the way things transpire and so many other factors. Then we don't remember where we have saved what and which file and folder is current or for what purpose and which one is up to update.. Things can get crazy.

[@ervhowe1316]

Well done mate, that concise tutorial illuminated a number of holes in my knowledge of one drive, thanks for that.

[@albertagius5267]

Thanks Jonathan an excellent presentation and introduction to OneDrive. Is there any way I can automatically backup OneDrive files to an external hard drive and then on set times will only backup changes to files?

[@saintjeff5272]

As usual Johnathan, a succinct video. I've just updated to a new Windows 11 pc from a 14yrs old Lenovo, now operating Windows 10 22h2. I've always tried to keep everything on my pc, but in truth I've kept a load of 'rubbish'. I use iTunes, iCloud, Spotify, and I do have One Drive, with 1tb storage, 'compliments' of Office 365, but don't really know how to use them. Do I need all of the various Cloud systems on my pc ? Trying to set up my new pc, and iTunes tried to sync 24,000 photos !!! Where did that come from ? I only have around 6,000 photos, tops. Anyway, your tutorial helped.

[@ldls8880]

So my mom has outlook and it says her storage is full. We clicked where it told us to free up space and then we had this whole ordeal logging into Microsoft. When we went into the one drive app we tried to find how to delete photos however we could not select any of the photos shown and it kept showing that they were uploading I think. We though we were deleting the photos off of one drive but apparently we were deleting off of the photo app as well. Her emails won’t go Through and we’ve deleted a bunch of photos already. Can anyone help?

[@bethbucksot1787]

Thank you. This is very helpful.

[@CyberMedics]

Subscribed &liked . Detailed and informative. Are you using OneDrive or a different cloud provider? Do you perfor local backups? What do you use? Thanks for the video.

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, we use OneDrive. We also use Acronis 365 backup

[@richardconnor6006]

Very clear! Thanks

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks

[@rovercoupe7104]

Thank you. M.

[@rysnyder]

Great detailed video...good info to get started with OneDrive.

[@yanastan2310]

Great tutorial, thank you!!

[@milly.alva.haimberger]

Good video

[@lindsaycleveland2992]

Well enplaned tutorial. Thanks :)

[@gregoz6]

Do you have any suggestions on how NOT to sync folders from OneDrive? seems they provide this "choose folders" feature under settings, but it's not working, if you de-select any folder, it will remove it from your hard drive, so irritating. thx,

[@bijaytanty8434]

Thanks Sir

[@twandieltjes1359]

Great video. For a small company (5 users/laptops, no domain, just a windows workgroup) we want to use onedrive business and share folders with data. Is the info in your video enough to set it up this way? Of is there a white paper available to set this up the most efficient way? They are using it already but have problems seeing each other files and data.

[@bearded365guy]

Add your devices to Entra ID first, then look for my other video too about SharePoint

[@seannolan9892]

How do I transfer all of my pictures and videos from my Google and Onedrive account and move them over to my 6tb external harddrive and then delete those pictures from Google and Onedrive to free up space . My storage is full on both and i cannot sendvor receive any new emails on hotmail or gmail . I am a new subscriber to your channel and I've liked this video . I'm watching your video from Dublin Ireland . I don't use iPhone or ios laptop , but I am using a laptop to do this . Thanks . I'll be waiting on your reply. Please use a step by step guide and give me as much detail of how to do it. Thanks again

[@maryleach9015]

I have bought anew Samsung S23 Ultra and for some reason my photosvfro ny samsung gallery have gone into Microsoft Cloud automatically i am so angry i didnt allow that feature i have no idea how it happened as i cannot use any of my other Samsung features like getting rid of reflections etc. It wont even let me delete the photo.

[@crystaltharrell]

Thank you!! 🙏✨

[@richardadkins1153]

Hi..Have scoured KZbin for a tutorial that covers "what happens to existing content within the MyPC folders of Desktop, Pictures and Documents, when OneDrive is set to backup those folders..Is the MyPC content 'moved' or 'copied' to OneDrive ? If copied and all folders in OneDrive are set to "always keep a copy on this device", has one effectively doubled the hard disk space utilised on one's PC ?

[@NazmusLabs]

They are moved May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you to Islam and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen

[@donhody1127]

Hi, thanks for the video. I am still a little confused. I want to save all my photos from my pc to one drive cloud. My pictures are in 'This PC folder. How do I get the 'pictures' folder to automatically back up to the cloud? Thank you.

[@allanmigdal3593]

Great video! Thanks for posting. Quick question. From what I understand is that the vault is only on your personal OneDrive not the Business version but you mentioned that you can store more in the vault with a paid version. So are there really two versions of the personal OneDrive? One associated with the free account and one with a paid account.

[@eointhomas2914]

Hi Jonathan, do you usually sync sharepoint sites or just add the shortcuts to onedrive? I always run into sync issues when syncing sharepoint sites Thank you

[@gianlucaierpi2258]

Hi and thanks for your tutorials. I would like to ask you if it is possible to connect OneDrive to an external memory to perform daily backUps. I move my most important files to an external memory. I would like to make sure that every time I update or modify my files on the external memory, the same changes are reported on the One Drive cloud. I know that DropBox has an option called DropBox Backup which I have tested and it works very well. I would like to know if OneDrive supports the same function especially for linking with the Office Suite.

[@CyberMedics]

Good question. Don't know if one drive has that capability. Like that local backup featuring on dropbox. This is not exactly what you're looking for but Windows File history will work in conjunction with OneDrive to keep version copies of your files on an externally connected Drive.

[@mladenkoncurat1661]

Hi! I have a problem at mycompany that I hope you can help me with. We use a single OneDrive account across multiple devices for convenience. However, recently after receiving a new laptop, I have noticed that anyactivity I perform on my desktop is visible to my colleague on her computer and the other way around. How do I stop that?

[@dsmtsi]

What happens if 2 people are working on the same document and one doesn't have internet access? Will it crrate 2 copies once the 2nd person is back online and their version uploads?

[@scottperkins3696]

I want to turn off all automatic featurres of ONE DRIVE and use it as a remote logical drive that I can manually move or copy files to from my physical hard drives on my desktop using FILE EXPLORER in Win 10. I am having trouble turning off the auto synch features and have found that there is a hidden directory on my desktop hard drive that contains a copy of everything I have stored on the Cloud Onedrive. This is using up way too much disk space on my desktop Logical C drive. You may be wondering why I am doing this and the reason is that I have two physical hard drives on my desktop and a total of eight Logical hard drives. This is to help organize all my files going back 20 years etc.. So you see, I really just want a remote logical drive for backup of my files to be copied only manually.

[@sallyh.6362]

Thank you for confirming that saving stuff to one drive is a terrible idea for files that you want to share with other co workers on an ongoing bases. That it’s clunky and bad because that is not what it’s for. Imagine being audited (student files Re provincial education funding) by a government agency and trying to create hundreds of folders saved in someone’s one drive, that each need to containing several documents that are all being generated by different people in their one drive and shared with multiple others out if one drive. Moving the files into the folders was a nightmare

[@mikeinpcola5543]

Very thorough, but I'm not seeing an option where you can ONLY save files to the OneDrive cloud. For instance, when you open a file that is "available when online" with corresponding blue cloud, and then close the file, the file status will automatically change to "available while on this device' with corresponding little green check in white field in green circle. This means a copy will be on hard drive now too. How can you only store files on cloud and still use desktop apps associated with that file? Thanks.

[@marion6068]

Is it possible to see the photos on the onedrive app via android mobile but not on the pc?! And how could one download these photos on an external drive? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[@kevinortiz120]

I loved this! When I am working on a Word document and I select the option to save it on the computer but it always appear on my OneDrive. Are all documents stored on onedrive even though I chose to save it on the computer instead?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, your documents, desktop etc which appear to be local are actually stored in Onedrive.

[@kevinortiz120]

@@bearded365guy thank you! Is there a way to just leave some stuff on the desktop and avoid being stored on the onedrive?

[@drbenirusani]

@@kevinortiz120 I think you can manually do that when you "save as" -- select your destination

[@kevinortiz120]

@@drbenirusani Yes!! Thank you. I actually did that but documents Always get stored in the cloud ;(

[@drbenirusani]

@@kevinortiz120 😥 I feel you

[@wge529]

My laptop is on Hotmail and there is also a photo and OneDrive (is it?) The smartphone is on Google and the photo is also on Google there, so I have a problem with OneDrive

[@LewisSkeeter]

Changes I make to my word docs on the desktop aren't being transferred to the Onedrive file. Why is that?

[@bearded365guy]

Is OneDrive app running on your PC?

[@LewisSkeeter]

@@bearded365guyYes. Onedrive is on, but for some reason, my desktop seems to be independent of it.

[@drbenirusani]

Great video. I have 1 question -- I already subscribed to the online Onedrive / Microsoft 365. Do I still need to install the Onedrive app on my MacBook? What advantage would it have over the online version? Thank you 💯🖐

[@bearded365guy]

No, you don’t have to install the app. If you’re happy using the online version that’s ok. The Onedrive app is great for windows devices

[@drbenirusani]

@@bearded365guy Cheers! Love your videos

[@sylviablight9859]

I cannot get Excel files to save to Drive even after performing save to Drive

[@alexmartin4650]

I find that if a folder/s contains a series of sub-folders that OneDrive only uploads the first sub-folder and subsequent sub folders are empty is there a way to overcome this situation? BTW I am from Yorkshire too (west)

[@bearded365guy]

I’m originally from west too. But emigrated to North a few years ago. I’ve not seen this behaviour before

[@Alex-wm7iq]

Thanks for the prompt reply, Jonathan. I have been doing a bit of research and I found one comment that mentioned 'file size' so I will have a look at this. Added to that, I may have tried to add too many files in one go. My plan now is to start again and try uploading files/folders 'singly' and see if this makes a difference.

[@CyberMedics]

@@Alex-wm7iq any update?

[@userhatescollage]

one drive automatically uploading important data and and I accidentally deleted it from the one drive and even the recycling bin and I didn't find it in my laptop after that can I get it back???? Help please!!!

[@bearded365guy]

You deleted it from OneDrive recycling bin?

[@userhatescollage]

@@bearded365guy yes, I can't get it back????

[@user-qj4ru1nc8m]

How much of your data Microsoft will be accessing and using from your OneDrive?

[@bearded365guy]

Nothing

[@user-qj4ru1nc8m]

@@bearded365guy then why do Microsoft force to keep all your files in OneDrive? If they were not stealing Data, they could offer it to the user's choice? But they use it as the first choice of storing option, & if you are not careful then your documents will fall into their hands.....😀😀 Microsoft started its journey by stealing...they won't be able to stop that habit... because it is genetic 🤣🤣🤣

[@richarda3659]

Very useful video, although I would point out that it's rubbish that you don't have an Internet connection on a jet plane. Perhaps you haven't flown anywhere in something like a decade, but if you have, you might have noticed that nearly *ALL* planes now have in-flight WiFi with actually fairly usable download speeds. I thought this video was really old on that account, but no, it's only a year old. Kind of obsolete misinformation being spread here, I'd say.

[@bearded365guy]

Great comment. I fly usually 2-3 per month. I’ve yet to have a plane with an internet connection. Maybe I’m missing something. Happy Sunday.

[@CyberMedics]

​@JonathanEdwardsTech Don't see that available much. Really expensive if available.

[@MysticMind93]

Hey Jonathan are you from the UK? I hear an accent

[@bearded365guy]

I am from the UK!

[@MysticMind93]

@@bearded365guy Dope I wanna visit one day. I like your content

[@azadsingh8613]

Thank you Jonathan for explaining about onedrive each features 👍 You covered everything however I have a request if you can create some more videos on Onedrive with different different platforms like( Mac, Android,iOS and windows) Thank you in advance 🙌

[@markjjnstradling]

I am from Yorkshire, but living overseas, so nice to hear the Yorkshire accent....a great video, but the reality is OneDrive is the worst cloud storage on the planet. Take a clook at products like Tresorit or IceDrive and do a video on them as well. I would not touch OneDrive with a barge pole......

[@bearded365guy]

Not even with a barge pole? OneDrive is fine for most businesses. It doesn’t do complicated file paths or large files very well. But it’s included in Microsoft 365, so my recommendation is to use all of the apps, for better or worse.

[@markjjnstradling]

​@JonathanEdwardsTech I agree. I want to use it and make more use of my MS subscription. But this week I spent 5+ hours online with MS support re sync issues. Anyway good video I hope I can make use of your content when I've solved the other issues.

[@zzehyboy753]

Do you know you have the same name as a theology LEGEND?

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks!

[@readmylisp]

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[@yavamaystudio8045]

Money.... Subscription 🤮

[@zinadottonwealthandsuccess2569]

Great video from the UK🌹🌹💯💯🩵🩵🩵🥰🥰🥰