Microsoft’s OneDrive Personal Vault promises extra security for your most sensitive files, but many people misunderstand what it actually does. We explain how OneDrive Personal Vault works, what protections it truly offers, and, just as importantly, what it does not protect, so you can decide whether it’s right for your
If you want to know how to Add more OneDrive storage to Microsoft 365, the process is straightforward and can greatly enhance your productivity. You now have the option to expand, for a price. Microsoft 365 Personal or Family customers can buy more cloud storage: 200 GB, 1 TB, 5
Microsoft has quietly changed how storage is handled in Outlook.com: email attachments now count against your OneDrive quota. For users on free Outlook.com accounts with only 5GB of OneDrive space, this shift can quickly consume cloud storage and even disrupt email if quotas are exceeded. Here’s what this means for
Microsoft’s change to cloud folders only in Microsoft 365 can be stopped in three different ways. Regain full control of your document options, including two options to stop this unloved feature from appearing at all! People are complaining about Microsoft’s change to showing cloud storage only in Microsoft 365, before
OneDrive isn’t just used for documents and photos. Microsoft saves a lot of related files in secret, hidden folders taking up the space customers pay for and preventing proper backup. Let’s look at the messy mix of things hidden in OneDrive and other Microsoft online locations. You can see what’s
Worried about losing files in OneDrive or getting locked out of your Microsoft account? You should be worried. Reading about one horrifying OneDrive experience. Here’s what you need to know about keeping your data safe, why regular backups matter. Discover practical tips to protect your files and avoid the common
Microsoft is adding yet another push for customers to save all their documents to OneDrive. This time inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. OneDrive is Microsoft’s preferred place to save files and they cite various benefits to cloud storage. The company ignores the downsides to OneDrive and the right of
Apple gives their iCloud storage full encryption, meaning only the user can access their backups, photos and other data. Microsoft 365 customers should be asking Microsoft to do the same (don’t hold your breath). Advanced Data Protection is an option that encrypts all the customers information and files on Apple’s
A rap about OneDrive? If your ears can stand it, Microsoft has a OneDrive song for you. This tune was played as a prelude to a live Q&A session, possibly to discourage people from attending? “OneDrive, it’s the king of the cloud… never loses a file” Click on the image
Google Drive accidently deleted a $125 Billion dollar pension fund. It’s an extreme example of why it’s important to have your own backups of cloud stored files. Don’t rely entirely on one company, including Microsoft’s OneDrive. Cloud storage is great but nothing is 100% perfect so it’s essential to have
According to Microsoft, AutoSave is the ‘greatest feature of all time’. That’s ‘over the top’ even for Microsoft and it only highlights the self-serving limitations of the current Autosave feature in Office. “Autosave is the greatest feature of all time and you can use it across your M365 apps. That’s
OneDrive Personal Vault is available to Microsoft 365 users across the globe. It’s an extra security level for your most important and private files. Here’s how to setup, use it and work with Office documents in the Vault folder. OneDrive Personal Vault is a more secure extension to standard OneDrive. It’s
OneDrive Personal Vault is limited to 3 files for anyone with a free OneDrive account. It’s very easy to bypass that limitation, store as many files as you like and even add another security layer. See OneDrive Personal Vault, deep inside and tricks There are several ways to store multiple files
Microsoft continues to push Office users to store their documents on OneDrive with new promotional messages appearing inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Messages like these are appearing for Microsoft 365 customers who are saving documents on their computer, not OneDrive. “MAKE THE MOST OF MICROSOFT 365 Take advantage of OneDrive
Microsoft is now looking at the contents of password protected ZIP files stored on OneDrive, Sharepoint and other cloud services. Maybe with honorable intentions but there are serious privacy concerns that haven’t been acknowledged. For a long time, Microsoft’s antivirus and safety systems have opened up compressed ZIP files to
No cloud service is perfect, no matter what the company says. Here’s what you must do to protect yourself from breakdown of your OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams or Microsoft 365 cloud storage. Microsoft pushes use of OneDrive to store all your documents and images. That suits Microsoft’s strategy but isn’t necessarily
An Outlook.com or Microsoft hosted mail storage quota can be anything from 2GB to 100GB. Here’s a full list of the mailbox limits, how to check your current usage and total allowed size. We’re talking here about Microsoft mailbox hosting services including Outlook.com. NOT the various and confusing types of
The OneDrive app for Windows 11 and 10 now has a new look that makes settings a little easier to manage. The change also includes one, tiny, new feature. The change is to the Settings menu which now looks like the modern Windows settings panes. That means there’s more room
Here’s how Outlook.com mailbox storage limits work now for both Microsoft 365 customers and ‘free’ users too. This is in advance of changes coming in February 2023. Outlook.com is Microsoft’s free email service, formerly known as Hotmail. It’s Microsoft’s rival to Google’s Gmail. When you sign-up for Outlook.com, you also
These days it’s quite simple to share a video or any large file via email, here’s how. You’ll need a cloud storage service, Google, iCloud or OneDrive. We’ll use OneDrive because it comes with Microsoft 365 and it’s well integrated with Outlook. The same steps apply to any large file
There are two different ways to access a Microsoft Office document that’s saved on OneDrive. We’ll explain both and why it’s sometimes important. Microsoft’s OneDrive stores documents on servers. Programs (like Office) can open those files directly from the cloud service. Or the OneDrive app can copy (synchronize) files from
Does Office 2021 or Office 2019 insist on a Microsoft account Sign-In (login) to use the software and edit documents? We’ve done some tests to check and we’ll explain the details too. It’s a good question. Microsoft 365 software does require a Microsoft account login but what about the ‘perpetual
A clever techie, Rudy Ooms, has found a worrying bug in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Wipe and Fresh Start options are supposed to remove all user data from a computer but leave really obvious files behind and unencrypted. The problem is the Windows feature which is advertised as
OneDrive and other cloud storage providers are dealing with a change in the Mac operating system and the result is a mess with a lot of confusion for customers. The result is a mixture of versions and features depending on what macOS version you’re using. The documentation from Microsoft doesn’t
