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Is it a must that One Drive files be on both the One Drive folder on the local machine and on One Drive or can you set it up to ... ... how to phrase...? OK, say that I want to use One Drive as a backup media for some folders. Can I just upload those folders to One Drive without having them in the One Drive folder on the local machine? Just curious about this as even if the files/folders must be in the local One Drive Folder I can just add that folder to my libraries and get rid of the current locations.

I posted this question here as I would get the 1TB storage for going with Office 365 for $9.99/month versus just adding to One drive at $3.99 for 225GB of storage. If I can segregate between local and One Drive the answer seems obvious in that I should go with Office 365 and get the 1TB.

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Yes. You can select what to sync to what PC from where. You can have a cloud folder that is not synchronized to any PCs.

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You can get Office 365 Personal for $70/year and still get your 1 TB of storage.

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I went with the Home version as it is licensed for 5 systems. The Personal version is only for one. Since I have a desktop, laptop and tablet I figured that the Home version would do me better. If I read the agreement right I could still add the tablet with the Personal version but not the second computer.

Also, if I cheat a little I can actually get 5TB of OneDrive storage. The Home version allows for five users with each having 1TB of OneDrive space.

BTW, Installing Office 365 Home left my Office 2007 install working just fine.

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If I read correctly doesn't the Office 365 plan allow you to install the current version on a local machine.


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Yes, it is installed on my desktop and will be installed on my laptop.

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I went with the Home version Jay as it's on 2 desktops and 2 laptops here, oh and yes there's a version on my Lumia. I installed it on my laptop then shared it with hubby for his machines, he was running Office 2010 as was my desktop, my laptop was using the 2007 version.

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Peter, I'm not sure I understand your question. Office 365 is always installed on your local machine.

Jay, I wasn't kidding when I said my storage space was unlimited. They had some deal awhile back where if you asked for it, you could get unlimited storage. Of course I've never used my first terabyte even.

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It will take ages for me to use all mine as well, I have the Free 15GB then Loyalty 10GB, Office 1,024 and Camera Roll 15GB.

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Joan, I use more than that just for my music backup. ;)

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Joan, I use more than that just for my music backup. ;)

You actually have over 1.3TB of music files?

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Joan, I use more than that just for my music backup. ;)

My music collection is on LPs, 45s and CDs, I don't have any on the computer. ;-)

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Where do you get 1.3 TBs? I said I had more than Joan's full allotment of space, which is 45 GBs.

I have 73 or so GBs of music.

Oh wait... I see. She says Office 1,074, but didn't say GBs and I skipped over it. I wasn't paying attention to what she meant there.

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LOL! And I thought that I had a lot of audio at ~40GB

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Where do you get 1.3 TBs? I said I had more than Joan's full allotment of space, which is 45 GBs.

I have 73 or so GBs of music.

Oh wait... I see. She says Office 1,074, but didn't say GBs and I skipped over it. I wasn't paying attention to what she meant there.

Sorry about the confusion, I was just copying what it said when I looked at what storage I had and that didn't show the GB after the Office storage. :lol:

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No worries Joan. :) I live in the state of confusion... I just use Wyoming for mail.

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Ha ha ha :)

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You're not the only one Jay. I'll have fun tomorrow my new router will arrive ahead of my broadband being upgraded to fibre on Monday. :D

Mind you I wouldn't class it as fibre, there have been no new cables laid to my house it's still the copper wires that we paid to have installed when we moved here. I queried this with my ISP and was told that the fibre was to the cabinet I'm connected to, it then came over the copper wires to my home. I made the comment that if fibre speeds could be delivered over copper why it hadn't happened before, funny I didn't get an answer to that. :lol:

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Actually I've been playing with Office 2016 and OneDrive a bit... Finally found a use for Groove! And it is a pretty good use! :mrgreen:

I decided to back up all my music to OneDrive. I just copied my music folder to my local OneDrive folder and am letting it do its thing as to syncing. After it is done I will remove the folder from the sync list and use it for remote access and backup.

SO where does Groove come in??? It serves as a useable media player for music including the ability to create playlists. I never really realized what Groove was. It seems that it will stream media from OneDrive to any device I enable. This is REALLY quite cool! I am listening to streamed music from OneDrive as I type via Groove. LOL! The only issue I see is that I don't see an option for any visuals... Wonder if WMP can access OneDrive...

I am seriously amazed by the possibilities! There is no way that I could put my entire music library on my Android tablet but now I actually can... I think. Since I have Office 2016 (365) with multiple licenses including a version for Android I can install the thing on my tablet and then have full access to my entire music library on the tablet via Groove and OneDrive. I'm sure that I'll run into some issues but can not see any reason for it not to work.

I DO believe that I've found a use for the Cloud.

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Xbox Music does that also, Jay. I wonder what the relationship is between Xbox Music and Groove Music. I've never used Groove.

Edit: Ah, it seems that Xbox Music just became Groove Music.

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Groove seems to work well enough as a player. I won't use it on either my desktop or laptop but very well may on my tablet. In fact I have started building a playlist. My upload of music is just about done so that is one thing out of the way. The thought has occurred to me about how to handle new music but figure, unless told a better way, I will just copy new music to my local OneDrive folder and let it sync. Then I will just add the new stuff to my cloud OneDrive music folder after it is synced. I'm sure that is a clumsy method but should work.

I have to admit that I'm obviously getting over my hesitation about using cloud storage. Of course I won't use it for anything sensitive nor will I rely on it as an only source. Anything that goes on OneDrive will also be on my local systems. I have to admit that I have more to learn about this cloud stuff than I already know.

I have 'moved' my local OneDrive folder from 'Users' to my data drive. I am tempted to re-do my Libraries so that they are all within the local OneDrive folder and then not have to do anything at all as everything would automatically be synced. My concern on that possibility is not likely to happen but could... what would happen if my cloud OneDrive got wiped somehow? My guess would be that it would sync with my local OneDrive folder and restore itself. Can anyone say if this is fact or is it possible that it would sync the other way and remove from my local systems?

Here is why I ask what I asked in the last paragraph. Of course I do image backups so I would not lose a lot anyway. Along with the images I also keep a 'live' backup of my entire data drive that is kept synced with Sync Toy. This redundant backup is ~230GB that could be freed if it is confirmed safe to use OneDrive for this purpose. Of course not everything data wise would go to the cloud for backup but I would guess that at least ~200GB could.

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OneDrive is just a single form of backup, don't treat it as anything else. You still need multiple backups.

I have my OneDrive Sync folder on my data drive, but it is separate from my actual data folders. I sync My Music with the Music folder in my local OneDrive folder. It then automatically uploads to OneDrive - you don't have to manually sync.

In addition to what I store on OneDrive, I still do my File History backup, my Image backup (not the data drive though), and a SyncToy backup. All 3 are on an external drive. My music also resides on 2 Zunes (all my music on both Zunes), and I recently copied it all to a 128 GB USB stick, but probably won't keep that there. That was a test. ;)

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