I recently downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint on my Mac. I found out that when I edit my presentation it will actually autosave it to cloud, just like the web app. It was working well for a while. But today I closed my window somehow hours of my progress was gone. Turns out that I ran out of the “free 5gb of storage” and I ran out of storage without noticing it, so it did not save. I’m never going for cloud EVER again. We all make mistakes, and this one taught me a lesson not to use cloud storage. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP GUYS
Windows user here. I purposely map OneDrive as a network drive on my PCs to break any connection MS apps have with OneDrive.
Everytime i don’t do this, I’ll end up with previous versions when opening it and non-existenting versions of what I was actually doing in OneDrive dedespite having the full paid plan.
Interesting, have not previously encountered this trick. Are you on win11? OneDrive personal or business? Googling seems to be messy on this topic, do you map the path manually, or is there a OneDrive setting? If mapped manually, does the separate OneDrive entry remain in Windows explorer? I guess I just want to know how the drive mapping breaks the app connection. Or do you recall a guide that achieves this? TIA!
This one introduces what sounds like symlinks but they’re not persistent:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-map-onedrive-to-a-drive-letter-in-windows-11/
I had on Win10, Win11, at home and at work. Always with files that are left open whole days on more than 1 PC. Since it do the networkdrive trick I never had the issue.
Plus it works a lot faster, as you’re actually using files on your M.2 SSD instead of checking the cloud every time you make a minor change. Let OneDrive figure it out afterwards.
You can do something like, or any other shared path that will work for your user rights.
It breaks the app connections for sure. Ever time ypu open a document LOCALLY it still refers to the https version. When you open it from X:\ It refers to X:\ which in turn refers to C:\ …
You notice the difference in speed and behavior immediately.