Onedrive: Get 15 GB extra.

It works with IOS, Android and WP, but it seems to be working with other systems as well.
I can confirm that it worked on my Windows Phone, and even on my old N8 (Symbian) with a different account.

The offer ends September the 30th.

https://blog.onedrive.com/you-can-now-get-30-gb-of-free-storage-with-onedrive/

 

Nice. I wish more apps would integrate OneDrive as they do Dropbox or iCloud.

 

Interesting. In terms of value, I'd say that Office University with 1 TB of OneDrive storage is pretty good and worth it regardless of what platforms you use not that you have Office for iOS/Android.

Anyways, that free 1 GB is definitely worth getting if you can. Since I've been tied to OneDrive for a while, I don't think I'll be able to grab that.

 

Careful guys, that offer comes with a gotcha. It will 'activate the auto upload feature for your camera' which means that all your photos get uploaded to the cloud. I don't want that. Who knows when some hacker will get those photos.

 

But:

All you have to do is sign up for OneDrive and activate the auto upload feature for your camera roll sometime between now and the end of September

Doesn't say you have to keep it on. I think if you activate auto-upload, take a picture of your dog, allow it to auto-upload, and then deactivate auto-upload, you'll still get the extra cloud storage permanently. I haven't personally verified because (1) I don't have an iPhone, and (2) I already have 1 TB of OneDrive thanks to Office 365.

 

I got the extra space, and I've been using OneDrive since SkyDrive was first introduced. I was even already storing my photos there.

 

Well, yeah, I'd say it would be pretty good if OneDrive didn't suck so bad as to be pretty much unusable for more demanding applications. With large numbers of files it's still slower than sh** creeping uphill as far as syncing is concerned, and it still crashes for all sorts of reasons, to the point that I'd rather pay for my DropBox storage than get OneDrive for free.

 

Well, it has been working perfectly fine for my use, otherwise, I wouldn't be using it still. That said, I don't have a ton of files to sync. I haven't had any crash issues either. That said, if it were up to me, I'd rather still have Live Mesh and sync files to local computers without going through the could.

 

Ditto. I use it to exchange some trivial files between my two machines, works like a charm.
Seriously Pirx, you have so many issues and you express yourself so verbally, I sometimes think you are a 12 year old troll .

 

Sounds more like Pirx has usage cases that are out of the norm and that what works for some of us, simply don't work for him.

 

That sure seems to happen a lot .
But yeah, you are right.

The only issue I have with SkyDrive is that you can't upload music, or so they say. I would love to upload some .mp3's from my main machine to my tablet, but there's some copyright mumbojumbo, which will delete it.
But that's a common problem with mainstream cloud services (i.e. Dropbox). Have to do it old school, use a USB stick/external HDD.
Oh and I can't seem to figure out how to make it show me files I have on SkyDrive without downloading them (Windows 7). On Windows 8 it's much more convenient. You have a list of files you have online, and can choose which to keep online and which to download.

 

What do you mean you can't upload music? I've ripped a CD then used OneDrive to move those mp3 files to my other computers. I haven't shared that music with others, and I haven't tried to use it to stream music, but for just moving mp3 files from one computer to another, it's worked just fine for me.

 

Most cloud services keep a database of hashes of known pirated files and delete those right away. It's possible that one got flagged regardless of whether it was or not (we don't need to know if that was the case).

 

Then don't do it. Or, uninstall the app. I logged in with a spare mobile and uploaded a pic of my wall that i just took. The reason for why I posted this was the extra free space, not the auto upload feature.

I wish you didn't make such posts without telling us which app you're referring to. It really doesn't help anyone.

Sure, maybe all OneDrive apps suck, including third party apps, and the web interface as well, but I find that hard to believe.

I'm not defending OneDrive. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the IOS app is much worse than the one for WP.

 

Sure, that I can believe. OneDrive probably works perfectly if all you have is a few "trivial files".

I express myself "verbally"? You don't say! And that makes you think I'm a "12 year old troll"? That one's so hilarious on so many levels, I really wish you could grasp what happened to you here. Thanks for the laugh... :laugh:

No really...

Certainly that seems to be the case. For some reason I expect my software to work for my usage, unbelievable as that may seem to some.
Specifically, as far as cloud syncing/backup/storage is concerned, I am syncing roughly 70 Gigs of data (right now about 80,000 files in more than 8,000 folders) with DropBox. Takes DB about 30 seconds on login to sync, takes hours with OneDrive. So you guys are surprised I call OneDrive unusable? By the time that POS would be done syncing I may have logged off or put the machine to sleep, which means it'll never be done syncing. Plus, if there's large database-type files to sync, DropBox does block-level syncs, so it only updates the changed blocks, rather than re-up/downloading gigabyte-size files. You know, files as exotic as Outlook PST files. Finally, I happen to use filesystem constructs like hardlinks, symbolic links, and reparse points. Those have been defined for and implemented in NTFS filesystems since time untold. Yet, OneDrive chokes and crashes on them. DropBox works just fine.

So, yeah, sure, this crap may work fine for casual users and in some toy scenarios, but it completely and utterly fails in heavy-duty applications. Maybe you guys think that's fine, and asking for this stuff to work in some professional environments is too much to ask of a professional operating system. I beg to differ. Simple as that.

 

I said "application", by which I meant "application", and not "app". Capisce?

 

To the contrary--when he gets really vehement about something, I read his posts in the voice of Carl Fredricksen, the old dude from Pixar's Up.

...like this one!

By the way, an app is an application, just like a photo is a photograph...

 

Ok, this has just devolved into squabbling, so I'm closing this thread.

 

But wait, I didn't get a chance to....