

They can call it Baked Alaska if they want to.
#Onedrive download limit update
This prevents "accidental" uploads to OneDriveįinally, you can turn off the OneDrive sync service.īUT, options 2 and 3 can and are reversed by MS at any time when the slap their preferred defaults over your settings during a Windows Update If you are not using OneDrive Sync, you might as well clip it's wings.Īnother thing you is change the default folders OneDrive Sync. That way, if it rises from the dead again after a Windows update your files still won't be affected This change gives you the most control by moving your Office files away from Sync. Simple change, in the instructions I gave you. In Word you can change the default file save location on your system to a folder that is not in the OneDrive Sync default. You can use OneDrive to "manually" backup files by periodically copying files to OneDrive, to a specific (dated) OneDrive folder. Delete in one place, it gets "deleted everywhere". Sync is there to share/synchronize your files between your computers and locations so you always have access to them. contrary to MS propaganda, Windows OneDrive SYNC is NOT a BACKUP! It is baked in too deeply.Īs I and others keep saying.

You can't "remove" OneDrive Sync from Windoze. OneDrive Consumer Manage your OneDrive storage and limits But like the undead vampires, it can reset to old defaults and rise again from the dead. You also have the option of change default folders that OneDrive sycn's to the cloud.īottom line, once you know the tricks, you do have more control over the demon spawn called OneDrive.Sync. You have the option of changing the default location Word saves your documents, to somewhere on the HD that OneDrive does not automatically sync. Windows OneDrive Sync is NOT backup! Backup has to be done independent of "Sync". Windows OneDrive Sync is setup to default syncing that folder, and a couple of others, to the cloud. Office is setup to default to save to the Windows user profile "Documents" folder. MS really, Really, REALLY, wants us to use OneDrive.
