Brian,
That's very interesting information.
My Windows 10 is a clean install done in January and I haven't used One
Drive on it although I have 1 TB with Office 365.
I'm about to try it out again as I believe they've also changed their
defaults which drove me crazy before. The previous default was not to
have offline access to your files - and changing that gave me continual
sync problems.
With Win 10 I understand offline access is the default so I'll be
interested to see if I have the sync problems.
I'll also be interested to see whether it changes my default Documents
file from D:\Documents - and if it does, whether I can change it back.
Since many people's One Drive space is limited to 5GB, they must have
some way of not syncing folders in their One Drive folder to their cloud
if they're automatically putting the default Docs in it.
Cathy
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
My clean install was based on the most recent release of Win10 from
less than one month ago. Older versions of Windows 10 such as upgraded
from Win7 or clean installs from a few months ago will not be showing
OneDrive in the Documents path….just yet.
It’s amazing that we have to talk about “older versions of Windows 10” !!
Here is what MS says:
Thank you for contacting OneDrive Support. The path
C:\Users\Name\OneDrive\Documents is created by default and using a
clean install of Windows 10 because the file explorer system is
intricately tied with OneDrive. For personal home users of Windows 10
OneDrive is the file system they would be using for their computer. I
understand that it will require some changes in file paths and in any
guides that reference those file paths however we did this to better
incorporate file hosting and being able to access your files from any
device not just when you are at home or at work.
Brian in CA
*From:*LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Sherry/Support
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:16 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs
I'm puzzled - I just got a new laptop a couple of months ago with
Windows 10 on it. Legacy's default folder was in the c:\users\<user
name>\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\.
Same with the Windows 10 upgrade over Windows 7 on my desktop. Since I
did the Win10 upgrade, I installed a fresh copy of Legacy.
The default folders for Office 365 on the laptop (I got a free copy of
it for a year and had to install it myself) did go to the OneDrive
folder, but not the Legacy installs - and I have two different
versions installed.
Legacy was installed after Office 365 on the laptop and after the
OneDrive folder was installed on the desktop.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes, thankfully Legacy is smart enough to create its files in wherever
Windows has established the user's Documents folder, in this case
under the OneDrive folder.
It seems that I was right in that Microsoft is pushing their OneDrive
cloud service onto users whether they want it or not. Now we know why
the upgrade to Windows 10 was free. It will be interesting to see if
existing users of previous versions of Windows 10 will have their
Documents folder moved into a OneDrive folder.
OneDrive indicates my free storage capacity is 15 GB. But if one were
to click on their link to add more storage, that page says that the
current free plan is 5 GB. Maybe it’s the Win10 Pro version that gets
15 GB over the Home version.
Brian in CA
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
My clean install was based on the most recent release of Win10 from
less than one month ago. Older versions of Windows 10 such as upgraded
from Win7 or clean installs from a few months ago will not be showing
OneDrive in the Documents path….just yet.
It’s amazing that we have to talk about “older versions of Windows 10” !!
Here is what MS says:
Thank you for contacting OneDrive Support. The path
C:\Users\Name\OneDrive\Documents is created by default and using a
clean install of Windows 10 because the file explorer system is
intricately tied with OneDrive. For personal home users of Windows 10
OneDrive is the file system they would be using for their computer. I
understand that it will require some changes in file paths and in any
guides that reference those file paths however we did this to better
incorporate file hosting and being able to access your files from any
device not just when you are at home or at work.
Brian in CA
*From:*LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Sherry/Support
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:16 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs
I'm puzzled - I just got a new laptop a couple of months ago with
Windows 10 on it. Legacy's default folder was in the c:\users\<user
name>\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\.
Same with the Windows 10 upgrade over Windows 7 on my desktop. Since I
did the Win10 upgrade, I installed a fresh copy of Legacy.
The default folders for Office 365 on the laptop (I got a free copy of
it for a year and had to install it myself) did go to the OneDrive
folder, but not the Legacy installs - and I have two different
versions installed.
Legacy was installed after Office 365 on the laptop and after the
OneDrive folder was installed on the desktop.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes, thankfully Legacy is smart enough to create its files in wherever
Windows has established the user's Documents folder, in this case
under the OneDrive folder.
It seems that I was right in that Microsoft is pushing their OneDrive
cloud service onto users whether they want it or not. Now we know why
the upgrade to Windows 10 was free. It will be interesting to see if
existing users of previous versions of Windows 10 will have their
Documents folder moved into a OneDrive folder.
OneDrive indicates my free storage capacity is 15 GB. But if one were
to click on their link to add more storage, that page says that the
current free plan is 5 GB. Maybe it’s the Win10 Pro version that gets
15 GB over the Home version.
Brian in CA
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