Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by cm2187 on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:21AM (#13836949)

OneDrive is free if you have very little data. Microsoft is not pushing OneDrive so proactively just in a spirit of sacrifice to its customers.

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by scholia on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:55AM (#13839515)

You get 5GB free, which is more than most people use, and that's in addition to infinite storage for email. OneDrive also compresses Office documents so they take up less space, and it automatically de-duplicates files.

It's a very useful 5GB, given that its part of the OS and you can save to it like an internal drive.

Of course, in the long run, Microsoft wants people o sign up for Office 365, which provides 1TB per person. That way you get 5TB of storage for peanuts, as well as the full desktop Office and integrated smartphone and tablet apps.

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by scholia on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:10PM (#13843263)

> You get 5GB free, which is more than most people use, and that's in addition to infinite storage for email.

I double-checked to be sure. My "free" 15GB of storage in Gdrive is actually 0GB (ie zero, nada, nothing) because I have almost 15GB of email in Gmail.

The same amount of email in Outlook still leaves 5GB free in OneDrive, for new users. (I have 25GB because Microsoft grandfathered my earlier storage.)

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by cm2187 on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:01AM (#13839570)

That's a few days of photos when on holidays

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by scholia on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:26AM (#13839748)

For a very tiny proportion of the population....

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by cm2187 on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:50AM (#13839926)

With people shooting videos in 4k with their iphones? And what about music? 5GB is tiny if you save anything else than text files.

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by scholia on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:05PM (#13843232)

If you're shooting 4K with an iPhone then obvioulsy you'll use iCloud (also 5GB) not OneDrive. Good luck with that.

If you're a normal person then you'll probably use 200MB (my wife) to 1.5GB (me) shooting jpegs. I checked my folders.

If you think 5GB of OneDrive is a suitable option for a pro/semipro/serious photographer shooting RAW then I suspect you may have more serious problems than OneDive...

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