Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive automatically backs up my photos, my programming, my Photoshop images, my Excel programmed sheets, my entire portfolio. We pay the $9.99 a month for Office family and we each get a terabyte in backup to our OneDrive and five accounts. This way I can bring my work with me anywhere and either keep working on it or show off my progress to friends or prospective volunteer opportunities. For the more normal person (not a nerd) after you take some photos make sure to open OneDrive to backup to the cloud, and then your home computer; then easily accessed from any device anywhere. There are a lot of data backup programs out there but most aren’t cheap, but for a terabyte for $7.99 or $9.99 (single account Office 365 and family account Office 365 respectively) which comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plenty of other software for anyone. Even without a 365 account, it’s worth using even if to keep your photos safe at home and on the go. Also I’m not a bot or paid advertiser, I just feel like of the options, Microsoft isn’t as evil as most big tech companies, but they’ve been around since I started using pc computers in 1988, so they’re unlikely to go anywhere soon, so your data is safer than some others whom I discovered had corrupted my irreplaceable photos on the cloud when my computer died. At least Microsoft knows how to keep software backed up reliably. Just make sure to open OneDrive to save your photos.

Since One Drive is included in MS Office, one should/have to use it if one has MS Office. The app is stable, but could be much better. So please MS look at these simple ideas to improve the app 1. The Folder path/hierarchy is shown in the top bar as to give an idea where one is currently and not just ‚Files’ as is now the case. 2. The same goes for files. Once a file is open the top line shows the path and the file name. If one has 20 files in one folder one knows emidiatly what file one was in before closing the file to go to the next file and possibly opening the same file again because one does not recollect the previous file name. 3. Please ad the function that one can work on a office document and then safe it to an existing shared folder. For example one team member creat‘s a doc and places it into a shared folder. I then edit this doc and can not directly safe it back into the shared folder. It would be great if all folders shared or not are treated like folders that people who have the permission can use the folder like it would be their own folder. 4. The same as above goes for a new doc one person creates and then what’s to place it into a shared folder. Even so I have found a work around this could be solved much easier through the ‚Move‘ function. Workaround: you have to create on the web interface of one drive a shortcut link of any shared folder to your home folder. Then in the one drive app you can drag any file into the shared folder, depending on your folder complexity this can take a little time, but it works PLEASE look at these simple improvements.

This app has always had its faults, but this latest redesign takes the cake for the worst redesign I’ve ever had to use. There’s no longer an option to just take a picture and upload to whatever folder or sharepoint library you’re in. You have to tap +, then tap scan, then swipe over 3 times to photo, then take a picture. On your second picture, the first one finishes uploading, and then blocks you with a permanent stupid blue notification that prevents you from actually tapping the button to finish. You have to X out, take your picture again, then since the notification isn’t there, you can click finish. This is fully interrupting my workflow and a change this drastic should never have been approved! Please give us setup options or preferences so we can eliminate all these stupid options! Including the insane and very easy-to-choose-option to share something you upload with whatever meeting you have on your schedule, regardless if you’re in that meeting or not! These notifications are pointless, seemingly permanent until you change the screen to something else, and are extremely annoying to use! Nobody uses onedrive to interact with meetings or other apps like you’re trying to push because there are other less stupid ways to do all that! We use it for access to storage or uploading files to sharepoint! That’s it! Stop trying to overcomplicate and annoy your users! Whoever approved this should be fired!