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TIFU by being greedy on buying a hard drive for pictures
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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Frankly, if you have the disk space, OneDrive should not be the exclusive home of your data. No cloud should. Your data should live on your physical computer hard drives, the cloud is just where it's backed up and shared to other computers.
Granted, this isn't how Microsoft wants you to think. They want you to think of OneDrive as your main hard drive, that your computer is just borrowing from. There aren't two files, there is one file in the Cloud, the computer is just mirroring it. Don't let them sucker you into thinking of file management like this, it is a trap to make you more dependent on them and their services.
In fact, you shouldn't even be thinking of OneDrive as a backup, because that's not what it's for. Microsoft even tells you this you really read there documentation on it. The only real backups are physical backups in your possession that don't require you to first phone home to a Microsoft server before you can access it. If a corporation is standing between you and accessing that data, it's not your backup, it's your data that you are letting them hold for you.
What you would do in this scenario is leave OneDrive doing it syncing, but COPY the files from the OneDrive folder to a non-OneDrive folder or to a second hard drive.
I had like 40 albums.
Each about 4 GB but I only have 5 GB on one drive for free.
So I uploaded an album then downloaded it to my computer and then I deleted the album on one drive after I had it on my pc downloaded. I deleted the album on one drive to free up space to upload my next album. And so on...
So now I have all albums on my pc but didn't notice I wasn't only deleting the albums on one drive, also on my phone lol.