Thanks man.... much appreciated, was using it over a year I had 160gb in the cloud then realized my new PC has 2tbs only took me 3 months to realize & remember. Hahahahaha thanks again man.
Thanks, I wish you could do this for me, I am so afraid of losing my files in the process. I have tried not use onedrive, but then it looks like most of my files have ended up in it. Also after I download the files do I have to internet connection to see them, or are they really on my PC?
Thanks Leo! Great Video. I'm curious how you download to an external drive. It seems like the "right click-download" option just defaults to your native Downloads folder, which is on your C Drive. Do you have to manually move them from the Downloads folder to the external drive or do you change a setting to have downloads go to your external drive directly?
This depends on your browser config. It's a download like any other, so having your browser default to Downloads, or ask every time is typically a configuration setting.
At 7:35, you click the top icon, everything is selected, and "download" is not an option. Since "Personal Vault" is also selected, the choices you get are probably the most limited subset of commands available, also probably limited by what you can do with "Personal Vault", which does NOT include "Download". I suspect, if you click the top icon to select everything, and then UNSELECT "Personal Vault", that the 3-dot menu might then include the "Download" option.
I have a question to Ask Leo. I got a new laptop and just loaded on onedrive. All my old laptop files are showing under the onedrive folder in file explorer. How can I get it back on the desktop like before and make sure it works and sync the same as many files was shared files and I dont want people to loose acces and I also want the folders thatbwas on my desktop before back on there syncing with one drive. I am scared if i download it won't work or sunc the same as before or will loose shared access
I did the download that went into Zip drive, but then had problems opening the Zip drive to get to my files. How to I get my files out of the Zip drive?
1:02 Oh my! I laughed when I saw this title because I have a 25 TB OneDrive account at work (imaging research). I currently have no single desktop PC or workstation where I could download all the data but thankfully I rarely need to download more than a few hundred GBs. I have part of the folder tree set in explorer to not synchronize on my most used PCs and I have disabled indexing on the archive to avoid some of the performance problems.
Hi Mr. Leo, I would like to ask you an important question that Microsoft can't answer me. When I turn on my OneDrive shows me that it is syncing, but when I'm away from my computer after 25 minutes, my computer goes to sleep and the most important question is: when the computer is sleeping, does OneDrive still upload my files to the cloud or not?
@@askleonotenboom Sorry about the confused word. The text has been corrected now. I would like to ask you an important question that Microsoft can't answer me. When I turn on my OneDrive shows me that it is syncing, but when I'm away from my computer after 25 minutes, my computer goes to sleep and the most important question is: when the computer is sleeping, does OneDrive still upload my files to the cloud or not?
Our host did an amazing job, walking us through the myriad of steps and options. Narrating, along with time synced screen captures, is a complicated and time consuming process that our host makes look easy. But even with his guidance, it made my brain hurt. It seems that Microsoft made their cloud storage service intentionally complicated, to dissuade people from grabbing a copy of all of their files. -- Microsoft could have included a "Download Everything" button. But they did not. -- Microsoft could have allowed you to open an Explorer window on their cloud server, you select all files / folders, and copy / paste (or drag) everything to your local PC's storage device. But they did not. -- When you choose their "Download" option, you get zip files. Now you have to deal with that. zip files are fine, as an option. But that you cannot (even as an option) download everything in the folder tree that OneDrive shows you, and have that same tree duplicated locally, is intentional by Microsoft. And if you have X terabytes of OneDrive files, then after you download it all as a zip file (assuming the zip format supports such a size), you then have to unzip your X terabyte zip file to recreate the folder structure on your PC. So you would need double the space, and double the time, to finally have all of your files, in their native tree structure, on your local PC. Microsoft has the brightest software engineers on the planet on their payroll. So the above is all 100% by design. Nothing is an oversight. Microsoft wants your files, and they do not want it to be easy for you to retrieve all of your files (as that indicates that you might leave their service). Microsoft makes it simple to hand them copies of your files, and complicated to get them "all" back. Individual files are easy to grab. But not so when you want to grab everything. Like so many other subscription services, the companies make it simple to join, and yet you need a support team to navigate parting ways. I copy important files on to two external drives. One I keep local, and the other I keep elsewhere (protects me in case of a fire or burglary). The files on my external drives are in a VeraCrypt folder, making them useless to anyone other than me. It is simple, safe, and I am neither at the mercy of Microsoft having down time, nor my ISP possibly having down time. And there are no monthly cloud storage fees for using my own external drives. Unless you have a good reason for uploading your files to compete strangers (i.e. Microsoft's OneDrive cloud servers, controlled by anonymous people), then why do so? This video is very helpful for two reasons: 1) There is no doubt that countless people are using OneDrive, where our host's step-by-step guide will be of great value. 2) For people on the fence about using OneDrive, hopefully they will not.
Thank you for the tutorial. I followed it and let my computer spend about 12 hours downloading the files. File size ON DISK matches file size on OneDrive. However, they are still only links! The file space is taken up but I literally can not access my files. If I try to move MY file, it gives an error that the cloud file provider is not running. How do we get our files back? This is all of my wedding pictures and all of the pictures and videos of my baby for the first few years yet Microsoft won't let me have them!!! At what point do we get together and sue? This is not difficult by accident. This is a marketing ploy and it is stealing peoples' valuable data.
I am pretty techie, have tons of computers, have worked in microsoft in corporations and google workspace a bit. And I really think OneDrive is so awful on personal Office 365 etc. I have had my own messes and I have had to help many friends. And wait for it.. I actually worked in storage (hw) and backup & recovery (large enterprise software) so I even understand storage, cloud, backup etc. I own like 6 PCs cuz I am a gadget geek, love most tech. I loathe OneDrive though - all the confusion with the icons, using the term backup when it is a sync not a backup, and I have many more issues. In a corporate active directory world it worked fine but something about no exchange, no corporate office etc makes it a train wreck for me.
If I have checked "always keep on this device" for all of my folders on OneDrive, are all of those files already downloaded to my computer? Will they stay on my computer if I delete them from my OneDrive online folder? I want to return all files to my computer only.
If you delete them from OneDrive online they will be deleted from your computer. That's the whole point of OneDrive. You need to copy those files to a folder that is not within the OneDrive folder on your PC.
I tried to download file from OneDrive browser but getting very slow speed. If I download single file I am getting around 5Mb/s but If I download complete folder getting only 200Kb not sure why?
I've spent most of my evening downloading OneDrive files from the browser version to my download folder and then to an external hard drive and I had the same issue. PPTs and Word docs seem fine and copy relatively well into zip files in bulk even if they're long. But photos and videos or folders with mixed content are insanely slow if I try to download more than one file at a time. I actually experimented and tested it by clicking on one photo (fast download) and two photos (choked in the extreme). For photos and videos, the workaround I had to use was to individually click on each one for a fast download, then select them all in my download folder and move them in a group to my external hard drive.
Good because I never intended to either. It just decided to download everything into it and told me I ran out of space when I have 2 freaking terabytes. It's causing me a lot of trouble. I hate bloatware with a passion
Good because I never intended to either. It just decided to download everything into it and told me I ran out of space when I have 2 freaking terabytes. It's causing me a lot of trouble. I hate bloatware with a passion
Good because I never intended to either. It just decided to download everything into it and told me I ran out of space when I have 2 freaking terabytes. It's causing me a lot of trouble. I hate bloatware with a passion
at first i was mad at you for making such a long video; but very good info; got what i needed and saved disk space on my new pc so awesome!!
Thank you Leo for making sense of this OneDrive nonsense. 😉
Excellent video. Well done. Thanks Leo
Great video and One Drive info that make sense 👍
Thanks man.... much appreciated, was using it over a year I had 160gb in the cloud then realized my new PC has 2tbs only took me 3 months to realize & remember. Hahahahaha thanks again man.
Thanks, I wish you could do this for me, I am so afraid of losing my files in the process. I have tried not use onedrive, but then it looks like most of my files have ended up in it. Also after I download the files do I have to internet connection to see them, or are they really on my PC?
Thanks Leo! Great Video. I'm curious how you download to an external drive. It seems like the "right click-download" option just defaults to your native Downloads folder, which is on your C Drive. Do you have to manually move them from the Downloads folder to the external drive or do you change a setting to have downloads go to your external drive directly?
This depends on your browser config. It's a download like any other, so having your browser default to Downloads, or ask every time is typically a configuration setting.
@@askleonotenboom That makes sense! Thanks for the response 😊!
At 7:35, you click the top icon, everything is selected, and "download" is not an option. Since "Personal Vault" is also selected, the choices you get are probably the most limited subset of commands available, also probably limited by what you can do with "Personal Vault", which does NOT include "Download". I suspect, if you click the top icon to select everything, and then UNSELECT "Personal Vault", that the 3-dot menu might then include the "Download" option.
Super Helpful, very clear, thank you so very much
I have a question to Ask Leo. I got a new laptop and just loaded on onedrive. All my old laptop files are showing under the onedrive folder in file explorer. How can I get it back on the desktop like before and make sure it works and sync the same as many files was shared files and I dont want people to loose acces and I also want the folders thatbwas on my desktop before back on there syncing with one drive. I am scared if i download it won't work or sunc the same as before or will loose shared access
Will this restore all my stuff to it’s proper location??? Please I need help I can find none of my beats or plugins in so sad and hurt
First class explanation. Very clear, and best explanation after viewing and reading a lot of alternatives. Kudos.
Tried this and the download file has a 100GB file size limit (Desktop is showing 246GB size).
Thank you
I did the download that went into Zip drive, but then had problems opening the Zip drive to get to my files. How to I get my files out of the Zip drive?
Buy storage and delete this app asap
Thank you!! Can you use the copy paste option??? to select several folders without zipping them?? anyone know?
1:02 Oh my! I laughed when I saw this title because I have a 25 TB OneDrive account at work (imaging research). I currently have no single desktop PC or workstation where I could download all the data but thankfully I rarely need to download more than a few hundred GBs. I have part of the folder tree set in explorer to not synchronize on my most used PCs and I have disabled indexing on the archive to avoid some of the performance problems.
Have you something similar for Win10? Last night, my Win10 decided to throw everything into OneDrive and I want it back...
Should be the same for Win 10.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Hi Mr. Leo, I would like to ask you an important question that Microsoft can't answer me. When I turn on my OneDrive shows me that it is syncing, but when I'm away from my computer after 25 minutes, my computer goes to sleep and the most important question is: when the computer is sleeping, does OneDrive still upload my files to the cloud or not?
I don't know what you mean by "slipping".
@@askleonotenboom Sorry about the confused word. The text has been corrected now.
I would like to ask you an important question that Microsoft can't answer me. When I turn on my OneDrive shows me that it is syncing, but when I'm away from my computer after 25 minutes, my computer goes to sleep and the most important question is: when the computer is sleeping, does OneDrive still upload my files to the cloud or not?
@@ClintonSnow No it does not. Your computer needs to be running / awake for syncing to happen.
AMAZING THANK YOU!!!...😊
Thank you!
Our host did an amazing job, walking us through the myriad of steps and options. Narrating, along with time synced screen captures, is a complicated and time consuming process that our host makes look easy. But even with his guidance, it made my brain hurt.
It seems that Microsoft made their cloud storage service intentionally complicated, to dissuade people from grabbing a copy of all of their files.
-- Microsoft could have included a "Download Everything" button. But they did not.
-- Microsoft could have allowed you to open an Explorer window on their cloud server, you select all files / folders, and copy / paste (or drag) everything to your local PC's storage device. But they did not.
-- When you choose their "Download" option, you get zip files. Now you have to deal with that.
zip files are fine, as an option. But that you cannot (even as an option) download everything in the folder tree that OneDrive shows you, and have that same tree duplicated locally, is intentional by Microsoft.
And if you have X terabytes of OneDrive files, then after you download it all as a zip file (assuming the zip format supports such a size), you then have to unzip your X terabyte zip file to recreate the folder structure on your PC. So you would need double the space, and double the time, to finally have all of your files, in their native tree structure, on your local PC.
Microsoft has the brightest software engineers on the planet on their payroll. So the above is all 100% by design. Nothing is an oversight.
Microsoft wants your files, and they do not want it to be easy for you to retrieve all of your files (as that indicates that you might leave their service).
Microsoft makes it simple to hand them copies of your files, and complicated to get them "all" back. Individual files are easy to grab. But not so when you want to grab everything.
Like so many other subscription services, the companies make it simple to join, and yet you need a support team to navigate parting ways.
I copy important files on to two external drives. One I keep local, and the other I keep elsewhere (protects me in case of a fire or burglary).
The files on my external drives are in a VeraCrypt folder, making them useless to anyone other than me.
It is simple, safe, and I am neither at the mercy of Microsoft having down time, nor my ISP possibly having down time. And there are no monthly cloud storage fees for using my own external drives.
Unless you have a good reason for uploading your files to compete strangers (i.e. Microsoft's OneDrive cloud servers, controlled by anonymous people), then why do so?
This video is very helpful for two reasons:
1) There is no doubt that countless people are using OneDrive, where our host's step-by-step guide will be of great value.
2) For people on the fence about using OneDrive, hopefully they will not.
Hero.
Thank you for the tutorial. I followed it and let my computer spend about 12 hours downloading the files. File size ON DISK matches file size on OneDrive. However, they are still only links! The file space is taken up but I literally can not access my files. If I try to move MY file, it gives an error that the cloud file provider is not running. How do we get our files back? This is all of my wedding pictures and all of the pictures and videos of my baby for the first few years yet Microsoft won't let me have them!!! At what point do we get together and sue? This is not difficult by accident. This is a marketing ploy and it is stealing peoples' valuable data.
I am pretty techie, have tons of computers, have worked in microsoft in corporations and google workspace a bit. And I really think OneDrive is so awful on personal Office 365 etc. I have had my own messes and I have had to help many friends. And wait for it.. I actually worked in storage (hw) and backup & recovery (large enterprise software) so I even understand storage, cloud, backup etc. I own like 6 PCs cuz I am a gadget geek, love most tech. I loathe OneDrive though - all the confusion with the icons, using the term backup when it is a sync not a backup, and I have many more issues. In a corporate active directory world it worked fine but something about no exchange, no corporate office etc makes it a train wreck for me.
Hi Leo,
Does this means after clicking "Download all files" all the files will remain on the PC even after deleting them from the OneDrive itself?.
NO. The OneDrive app synchronizes so when yo delete online, it deleted on your PC. "Download all files" is ONLY a disk storage management tool.
If I have checked "always keep on this device" for all of my folders on OneDrive, are all of those files already downloaded to my computer? Will they stay on my computer if I delete them from my OneDrive online folder? I want to return all files to my computer only.
If you delete them from OneDrive online they will be deleted from your computer. That's the whole point of OneDrive. You need to copy those files to a folder that is not within the OneDrive folder on your PC.
I don’t understand why a simple thing can make it so difficult to download, the MS is trouble maker for sure!
I tried to download file from OneDrive browser but getting very slow speed. If I download single file I am getting around 5Mb/s but If I download complete folder getting only 200Kb not sure why?
Because they are just bunch of scammers
@@wleski864 got the solution. Need to download from aap for faster speed
I've spent most of my evening downloading OneDrive files from the browser version to my download folder and then to an external hard drive and I had the same issue. PPTs and Word docs seem fine and copy relatively well into zip files in bulk even if they're long. But photos and videos or folders with mixed content are insanely slow if I try to download more than one file at a time. I actually experimented and tested it by clicking on one photo (fast download) and two photos (choked in the extreme). For photos and videos, the workaround I had to use was to individually click on each one for a fast download, then select them all in my download folder and move them in a group to my external hard drive.
@@maureenlea572 i also faced this issue and got the solution
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I've never used One Drive. In fact, it's the first bit of bloatware I uninstall after a fresh Windows install.
Good because I never intended to either. It just decided to download everything into it and told me I ran out of space when I have 2 freaking terabytes. It's causing me a lot of trouble. I hate bloatware with a passion
Good because I never intended to either. It just decided to download everything into it and told me I ran out of space when I have 2 freaking terabytes. It's causing me a lot of trouble. I hate bloatware with a passion
Good because I never intended to either. It just decided to download everything into it and told me I ran out of space when I have 2 freaking terabytes. It's causing me a lot of trouble. I hate bloatware with a passion