Too late to sign up for the 15 GB "One Drive" Promotion..........

[lostinisaan]

First, I thought it was a joke e-mail, but now I know that MS will decrease the free amount of 15 GB when using one drive to only 5 GB.

Unfortunately, did I not take it seriously enough as there's an option to keep your 15 GB for free. All you had to do was to sing up for.

I've tried it, but the deadline was in January. Is there anything else like one drive around for free?

Thanks in advance.

Edited April 10, 2016 by lostinisaan

[B1TcoinLife]

First, I thought it was a joke e-mail, but now I know that MS will decrease the free amount of 15 GB when using one drive to only 5 GB.

Unfortunately, did I not take it seriously enough as there's an option to keep your 15 GB for free. All you had to do was to sing up for.

I've tried it, but the deadline was in January. Is there anything else like one drive around for free?

Thanks in advance.

Try mega

Its 50GB

Google Drive still 15GB too

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The MS website I used some months ago to extend my current OneDrive storage amounts says the promotion to keep that is no longer valid.

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/

I don't know if there is any other method, at this point, of keeping the higher level of storage without paying.

[lostinisaan]

The MS website I used some months ago to extend my current OneDrive storage amounts says the promotion to keep that is no longer valid.

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/

I don't know if there is any other method, at this point, of keeping the higher level of storage without paying.

The "Promotion" ended in January. I was told the 15 GB ends in July 2016 and you'll only have 5 GB available. But MEGA seems to be an option, thanks.

Edited April 10, 2016 by lostinisaan

[B1TcoinLife]

The MS website I used some months ago to extend my current OneDrive storage amounts says the promotion to keep that is no longer valid.

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/

I don't know if there is any other method, at this point, of keeping the higher level of storage without paying.

My onedrive account says I have 105GB remaining

I don't know how i long I keep it or whatever

I have never paid or been asked to pay anything so far....

[lostinisaan]

The MS website I used some months ago to extend my current OneDrive storage amounts says the promotion to keep that is no longer valid.

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/

I don't know if there is any other method, at this point, of keeping the higher level of storage without paying.

My onedrive account says I have 105GB remaining

I don't know how i long I keep it or whatever

I have never paid or been asked to pay anything so far....

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/31/10878544/microsoft-onedrive-free-storage-claim

P.S. It only shows that you've got 45 GB occupied right now. It's important to keep important files and delete stuff you don't really need before they cut you down to 5 GB in July.

Edited April 10, 2016 by lostinisaan

[lostinisaan]

The MS website I used some months ago to extend my current OneDrive storage amounts says the promotion to keep that is no longer valid.

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/

I don't know if there is any other method, at this point, of keeping the higher level of storage without paying.

31st of January was the last day.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

On the broader subject of cloud storage, AIS recently has begun offering its 4G MaxSpeed plan postpaid customers 100 GB of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage for free for one year. (To use their 4G service, your mobile phone needs to support LTE on the 1800 Mhz band, though the same service also would support using 3G on the 2100 Mhz band).

After the one year, of course, if you want to keep that amount of online storage, you'll presumably have to pay extra unless AIS decides to further extend the promotion. But the prices are pretty good. Unfortunately, don't have any idea yet how functional AIS's implementation of this is.

AIS also appears to be offering 15 GB of free AWS storage to all their customers through the end of 2016. And, 100 GB for 39b per month, which works out to a bit more than $1 U.S. per month.

http://www.ais.co.th/postpaid/4gmaxspeed/

http://www.ais.co.th/cloudplus/en/

Edited April 10, 2016 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[B1TcoinLife]

The MS website I used some months ago to extend my current OneDrive storage amounts says the promotion to keep that is no longer valid.

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/

I don't know if there is any other method, at this point, of keeping the higher level of storage without paying.

My onedrive account says I have 105GB remaining

I don't know how i long I keep it or whatever

I have never paid or been asked to pay anything so far....

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/31/10878544/microsoft-onedrive-free-storage-claim

P.S. It only shows that you've got 45 GB occupied right now. It's important to keep important files and delete stuff you don't really need before they cut you down to 5 GB in July.

Mine says under my email address 104/105GB available and there's an orange bar to represent the storage .....

How do you find out what date they cut it on?

[DogNo1]

Buy an Office 365 Home subscription and you'll get 1 TB of storage for each of five users. Buy the subscription through Microsoft Thailand and it's cheaper.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Not quite 5 users, depending on how you mean that.

It's actually up to 5 PCs/Macs, 5 tablets and 5 smartphones.

I have 3 PCs at home, all belonging to me. And each one counts as a separate install, even though I'm logging into each with the same MS ID. I think of myself as being one "user", but MS counts me as 3.

BTW, I came across this MS link that appears to offer a one year free trial to MS Office 365, including the 1 TB of MS OneDrive storage. I already have a subscription. But I tried this link, and it seems to be still working.

https://products.office.com/en-us/buy/upgrade-to-office-365-personal-for-free-for-1-year?

Edited April 11, 2016 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Tywais]

Just checked my onedrive and have 15GB + 15GB Camera Roll Bonus. Will have to look further regarding any reduction. I rarely use it though as I have quite a few free cloud storage accounts. I probably need to cut those down to one as it gets too confusing as to which one I have what on.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

With MS OneDrive, it's all gotten to be very confusing in recent times.

Here's what my current main OneDrive account looks like, after I took advantage of MS's since expired offer at the end of last year for existing users to supposedly permanently preserve some of their added space allocations.

AFAIK, it kind of breaks down like this

--the 1 TB of space is connected to my annual Office 365 subscription, and would go away if I ever don't renew Office 365.

--the free 15 GB and the camera roll 15 GB allocations supposedly are permanent, since I took advantage of the MS office to keep them months back.

--the 100 GB Bing Bonus was a promotional free two-year offer at the time I signed up for it, and it will expire in 2017.

--and the 10 GB loyalty bonus allocation I'm not sure about, in terms of whether that's permanent or will expire at some point.

So in the end, on an ongoing basis the way things stand now -- If I were to stop subscribing to Office 365 in the future -- I'd end up with a free, ongoing MS OneDrive account of somewhere between 30 and 40 GB.

BTW, when I was thinking about all this, it reminded me about how you really need to be careful about understanding these various online storage offers and promotions.

Back around the holiday season, for example, Amazon had a promotion to offer their supposedly UNLIMITED cloud storage for just $5 for a year, regular price $59.99, I believe. That sounded great back when MS was cutting their OneDrive allocations, even though the Amazon pricing was only valid for the first year. Except, when you got into it and the details, you discovered....

For example, you could upload as many MP3 files as you wanted to Amazon's Cloud drive, but, you couldn't in any way actually PLAY them from Amazon's Cloud Drive, you could only download them back to your PC or other device. To play MP3 files from their cloud, you'd have to subscribe at a different price to their music service.

And, similarly, Amazon's Cloud drive would allow you to upload "unlimited" video files, except, what they kind of hid in the fine print was that their cloud would only allow you to upload video files not exceeding 20 minutes in length. So, if you have a rip of a half-hour TV show you wanted to save or a concert video, no can do.

You gotta watch out for the fine print or hidden details all the time.

[robin33]

If i look up the. Onedrive app in the iOS app store iT says i can store as Many foto s in the camera album as i like . So my guess is that they do not count against your storage.

I paid once for my drive . What i do now is .

I Buy cheap tablets and phones that comes with a Year for free.

In dec i bought a tablet on sale for 59 euro with a Year storage (normaly 100 euro if you pay a Year upfront. Logged in took the storage with was accumalated with the room i had (including office etc etc) and sold the tablet again for 35 euro . IT can get on and on. Another month free is when you turn of automatic renewel, in geven time mis Will ask you to put iT back on and give you apotheek month.

I have the 5 user account. Witch also includes 60 min of Skype calling to normal phones Every month .

The whole ms office is a no brainer

Ps. I get 10TB

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[DogNo1]

Microsoft is a little confusing about their Office 365 subscriptions. Since I have more than five devices, I bought on Office 365 Home subscription in Bangkok through the Microsoft Thailand website and one Office 365 Home subscription at the BX on Yokota Airbase. I found that I have to establish an additional Microsoft ID to use the US-based subscription. Also, I think that you can share your subscription with four other users (them being yourself if you establish different IDs and emails. It's all too complicated though so I just bought a One Drive for Business subscription to save a duplicate copy of everything on my regular One Drive.

You must be careful about offers of unlimited storage. I bought an unlimited subscription for Bitcasa but after a year or two they reduced it to 1 TB. I like to keep several online storage repositories because I HAVE lost everything on two or more sites. It doesn't matter whose error it is. If you lose everything on one site, you'd better have a backup copy. The sites are more reliable and speedy these days but they used to be very slow and dicey.

[CaptHaddock]

We stopped using OneDrive because the low internet bandwidth meant that the laptop would never catch up with the desktop. An interesting alternative is the Syncthing open software from syncthing.net. Runs on OSX, Windows, & Linux. It syncs folders either one-way or both directions, but it doesn't copy to any cloud server. It copies folders directly peer-to-peer in an encrypted stream over the lan or the internet using a bitorrent type algorithm operating on the block level. So, it has to be more efficient than a cloud-based synchronization which has to copy each file up and then down before it arrives on the other computer.

First impression is that it seems to work as advertised. There is no cost involved. You are only limited by the available space on the computers involved. Setup is a little more complicated than OneDrive since executing commands in a shell comes into play in come cases, e.g. setting autostart for the daemon on an OSX box.

I am beginning to hate the low-monthly-fee-forever model of services such as OneDrive. Glad to find an opensource alternative.

We do use cloudservers for backup as distinct from synchronization. For that we use the opensource duplicati from duplicati.com which can spread your backups over multiple cloud services enabling you to keep below the threshhold requiring payment.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Got a kind of weird email overnight from MS... Kind of like, they're writing to apologize for cutting my OneDrive space allocation -- except they're actually not cutting it because I had taken advantage back in Dec-Jan. of their offer to keep the extra space I've had:

Important changes to OneDrive

As you know, the amount of storage that comes with most OneDrive accounts is changing from 15 GB to 5 GB. You previously confirmed your desire to keep your 15 GB of free storage (and the 15 GB camera roll bonus if you have it).*

As a result, your account will not be affected by these changes. We want to apologize for any inconvenience these changes may have caused you. We listened to our users’ feedback, and we are committed to making OneDrive the best option for people who want to be productive and do more.

Thank you for using OneDrive. – The OneDrive Team

Edited April 21, 2016 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[robin33]

We stopped using OneDrive because the low internet bandwidth meant that the laptop would never catch up with the desktop. An interesting alternative is the Syncthing open software from syncthing.net. Runs on OSX, Windows, & Linux. It syncs folders either one-way or both directions, but it doesn't copy to any cloud server. It copies folders directly peer-to-peer in an encrypted stream over the lan or the internet using a bitorrent type algorithm operating on the block level. So, it has to be more efficient than a cloud-based synchronization which has to copy each file up and then down before it arrives on the other computer.

First impression is that it seems to work as advertised. There is no cost involved. You are only limited by the available space on the computers involved. Setup is a little more complicated than OneDrive since executing commands in a shell comes into play in come cases, e.g. setting autostart for the daemon on an OSX box.

I am beginning to hate the low-monthly-fee-forever model of services such as OneDrive. Glad to find an opensource alternative.

We do use cloudservers for backup as distinct from synchronization. For that we use the opensource duplicati from duplicati.com which can spread your backups over multiple cloud services enabling you to keep below the threshhold requiring payment.

If you want tonsync between cloud ls without a pc in between .. Use Www.mover.io

[CaptHaddock]

We stopped using OneDrive because the low internet bandwidth meant that the laptop would never catch up with the desktop. An interesting alternative is the Syncthing open software from syncthing.net. Runs on OSX, Windows, & Linux. It syncs folders either one-way or both directions, but it doesn't copy to any cloud server. It copies folders directly peer-to-peer in an encrypted stream over the lan or the internet using a bitorrent type algorithm operating on the block level. So, it has to be more efficient than a cloud-based synchronization which has to copy each file up and then down before it arrives on the other computer.

First impression is that it seems to work as advertised. There is no cost involved. You are only limited by the available space on the computers involved. Setup is a little more complicated than OneDrive since executing commands in a shell comes into play in come cases, e.g. setting autostart for the daemon on an OSX box.

I am beginning to hate the low-monthly-fee-forever model of services such as OneDrive. Glad to find an opensource alternative.

We do use cloudservers for backup as distinct from synchronization. For that we use the opensource duplicati from duplicati.com which can spread your backups over multiple cloud services enabling you to keep below the threshhold requiring payment.

If you want tonsync between cloud ls without a pc in between .. Use Www.mover.io

Just the opposite: want to sync between pcs without a cloud. Don't want files in cloud at all.

[robin33]

For Back-up purposes onze does not exclude the other. For a Back-up off site and on site is better

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[bearpolar]

You could always stop using microsoft for anything and switch to google

i have 115gb on google drive and its going up every single second, all for free.

Edited April 22, 2016 by bearpolar

[CaptHaddock]

For Back-up purposes onze does not exclude the other. For a Back-up off site and on site is better

Verzonden vanaf mijn iPad met Tapatalk

Onedrive is designed for syncing pcs, not backup for which it is not adequate.

[robin33]

For Back-up purposes onze does not exclude the other. For a Back-up off site and on site is better

Verzonden vanaf mijn iPad met Tapatalk

Onedrive is designed for syncing pcs, not backup for which it is not adequate.

Maybe a long time ago , now it for backup or work totaly in the cloud.

And even if not it does work perfectly. Even better if you have a NAs.

Put mu files on my nas and the nas backs it up in his oen time to the cloud

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

You could always stop using microsoft for anything and switch to google

i have 115gb on google drive and its going up every single second, all for free.

What kind of Google Drive deal/plan offers that amount of free cloud storage?

Normally, that amount of cloud storage with Google is only going to come via paying.

[bearpolar]

They give you extra GB every month and when you sign up for some offers or use certain product they give you a boost.

I have had my gmail since it opened

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I've had Gmail since it opened as well, and I don't think Gmail has ever routinely or periodically increased my storage amounts, especially beyond whatever the current standard is.

However, at least in relation to Gmail or Google, I'm also not usually signing up for "some offers" or using "certain products" that increase my Gmail allocation. And actually, I don't particularly recall seeing any such offers over a long period of time.

[bearpolar]

Some phones give you 25-50gb extra, a chromebook gives you 100

There's other offers, just gotta google a bit. I think i got most of mine from my cheap asus phone and some free offers i got on a local deal site

Edited April 23, 2016 by bearpolar

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Yes, new device purchases will provide that...sometimes. But in my experience, those usually seem to be limited to a year or two in duration. I haven't seen those as permanent allocations. Got some of that recently with an ASUS phone purchase as well.

[bearpolar]

Yes, new device purchases will provide that...sometimes. But in my experience, those usually seem to be limited to a year or two in duration. I haven't seen those as permanent allocations. Got some of that recently with an ASUS phone purchase as well.

Unfortunately those free GB's with my asus also came with a shitty phone that only lasted 7months before being almost completely unusable.

Hope you have better luck with yours.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Sometimes it's all in the luck of the draw.

About a year ago, I bought an ASUS MemoPad 8 LTE tablet, my first ever ASUS device, mainly because I found quite a good price on it, and it's proved to work quite well and without incident in the months since.

So when I was looking for a new phone back around Christmas-time, I happened to come across a similarly good deal on an ASUS LTE mobile, the 5.5 inch Zenfone 2 Laser, which also is LTE capable, for about 4500b on sale. Been using it as my daily phone ever since, and not had any trouble with it. In fact, it's also worked quite well so far, and is due for ASUS's Marshmallow update in the next month or two.