MS being evil:
Ok, so for various reasons, I've been using OneDrive for many years. In addition to the 1TB with my 365 subscription, I've been paying for an additional 600GB.
When they added CoPilot and raised the price to 365 by 30%, I said no thanks and opted for the "classic" version.
Without telling anyone, either me, or their support people, they removed the ability to add storage > 1TB to "classic".
So now this morning, I am suddenly over my limit by 600 GB
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It took several hours with MS chat support to confirm this. They didn't know what was going on, it was up to me to suggest "hey, maybe you removed the ability to add storage to 'classic'".
It gets better. My 365 just renewed for $100. To have the privilege of paying for more storage, I would have to buy 365 CoPilot for $130. I asked, would they prorate it? Nope.
So now, MS is holding all of my OneDrive data hostage until I pay up or delete 600 GB.
Sounds a bit like ransomware.
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Now I'm off to BestBuy to pick up the 2TB SSD I just bought to deal with this. I'll be pulling *all* my data off OneDrive.
I'm looking into alternative cloud providers. I can backup locally, but I do want to have at least one off prem copy.
And I was going to go birding today!
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@culturednyc I'd suggest you get yourself a proper NAS with several backup disks and put all your data on that, and the backup disks.
Then just uninstall OneDrive and probably more.
Also, I'd advice to install LibreOffice, en uninstall Word, Excel, etc.
Also, get a proper e-mail provider and use probably Thunderbird as mailer on your PC.
Just totally get rid of MS 365.
Been working that way for years. A Synology NAS, e-mail on own domain with a hosting provider in Europe.
cultured nyc 🇺🇦
Angela Scholder