Monday, 26 May 2014

Enhance OneDrive Experience in Windows 8

OneDrive if not used properly can be a curse or a blessing. It is one stop shop for cloud storage. It has been integrated with Windows 8.1 It’s deeply integrated into Windows 8.1 and offers itself to become the one stop for Cloud storage and syncing is done across for several devices.  After setting up everything you would log into Windows 8 from a device and find that the setting, files and apps are there.    



Change location of OneDrive folder

Changing the default location is not hard and several benefits. Just free up some space on hard drive, decrease the operations which puts pressure on the SSD. You can also use external drives in an efficient manner. 

By default the cloud storage facility is in the C: drive. If you want to move it to some other partition or external drive open the Windows File Explorer and in the left hand side get a OneDrive. Just right click it and choose properties. 

In the Properties window, switch to tab location, choose Move… and pick the preferred location. Do see to it that only content of OneDrive folder would be moved and not the folder. Thereafter create a folder called OneDrive in case that is the preferred if that is the desired destination. Now click OK.

Just confirm that you want to shift all files contained in the old OneDrive folder to new location. After this check whether the files are removed safely which have been sifted to new place. Just go back to old one and get rid of the empty OneDrive folder.

Customize the Sync Settings

OneDrive doesn’t automatically sync all the files you’re storing in the Cloud to your local drive. What you see in your local OneDrive folder are often “smart files”; you could also call them “ghost files”. They’re smart because they save you space. Instead of taking up disk space all the time, only files you want to open are downloaded from the Cloud. The drawback is that you won’t have access those files when you’re offline, for example while traveling.

Here is a simple trick to make sure important files are always available to you. Open the OneDrive folder on your computer, right-click a folder you need to be able to access anytime, and select make available offline. That’s it.

If you need a copy of all your files on your local drive, go to the OneDrive app, open the right-hand menu, go to Settings, then Options, and set Access all files offline to On.

Enable Camera Backup  

OneDrive offers the Camera Roll feature which is required for backing up the videos and images to cloud. Search for the Camera Roll through the Charms bar to the settings directly. Uploads are by default turned off. To save storage space upload photos and back up photos for the best quality. Using Onedrive to upload them is totally a different option. 

OneDrive would get you images and videos the relevant libraries. The folders can be moved in the manner you move OneDrive through explorer.  

This can backup videos and photos from mobile devices. 3GB of free online storage can be earned if Onedrive mobile app is installed and enable Camera backup utility.

You can also use OneDrive as by default save. If you have extra storage then you can sync all your files across the dives having Windows 8. You would like to have Windows 8 save your files by default to OneDrive.

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