How to move from the cloud OneDrive

Microsoft included the back, strongly limiting the toll tariffs OneDrive and, most importantly, three times cutting the amount of free storage. In our note details of unpleasant stories and advice on moving to other cloud drives.

Just over a year ago redmondtsy decided to advertise its not very popular OneDrive in the strongest terms. Then Microsoft yavila world attraction unprecedented generosity:

• New users get 15 GB of cloud storage for free. More 15GB allowed to store photos.
• Full Unlimited relied Office 365 subscribers.
• The cost of 100 GB disk was reduced to $ 1.99.

Recently master of his words the company has revised its policy and notified public about the major changes:

• Free disk capacity is reduced to 5 GB. Bonus cloud storage snapshot is taken.
• Subscribers Office 365 instead of infinity receive 1TB.
• Junk rates of 100 and 200 GB are no longer offered and replaced with 50 GB for $ 1.99.

Feel the difference! his savage Microsoft unpopular decision explains the incorrect behavior of the users themselves. Not everyone, of course, but those jerks who are too straightforward to understand the word "Unlimited" and began to pour on servers too large movie collection. Thus, in some cases, the figure reached 75 TB, 14 000 times higher than the average figure.

Hey, Cortana. And where do the owners of accidents 15 GB? Why are most of the rap for a minority?

The answer to these questions does not give official blog, causing an uproar in the relevant forums with thousands of perturbed comment.

In fairness, we can not mention about the only bright spot all this mess. Remember Microsoft handed out at 100GB for participation in the program Bing Rewards? This capacity does not come under punishing sword. However, under the terms of the stock itself freebie automatically disappear in less than a year. So that the spot rather gray rather than white.

What's next?

how explain foreign publications at the beginning of 2016 users free 15GB will receive a warning, after which they will have 90 days to accept solutions: throw the information to another cloud drive or become a subscriber to the Office 365 (the first year for free, but you need to bind credit map). After this period the data will still be available, but read-only, and only for nine months. Next - the deletion. Existing subscribers to Office 365 more a year will be able to use as excess capacity or the right to request compensation.

Mover

The choice is yours, but if you decide to say goodbye to OneDrive, note Mover. About this wonderful web service to transfer data between the cloud storage you already read on Layfhakere. Mover is absolutely free for regular users and supports Dropbox, Box, Yandex, Copy, PutIO and, of course, Google Drive.

Go to OneDrive and make it to any folder, for example Transfer. Grab the into it anything that you want to move. Go to the Mover. Column Select Source connect OneDrive, and column Select Destination - any other store. Now we are ready to move Transfer folder. Click Run.

When the process completes, you will see a detailed report about the successful or unsuccessful transmission, and will also receive a similar notification by e-mail.

Transfer from OneDrive in Google Drive I went without a hitch, but with a disk of "Yandex" did not work. The developers Mover faithfully wrote that they are aware of a problem and are working on getting it fixed. It is a pity, of course, because the domestic manufacturer spares no space for many of its users, regularly giving the possibility to increase the capacity. Just so I recommend you Google, because that is where it should have 15GB to everyone that exactly covers the planned relocation. Undoubtedly, this begs a mention of perhaps the most generous free cloud from Mail.ru with its 25GB. But in this case, Mover It will not help you, and have to do everything manually.

As you can see, there is an alternative. In particular, you can understand and forgive Microsoft: uzhatsya, to throw off ballast and stay on OneDrive. Which way you'll go?