Get to Know About OneDrive on Windows 10

OneDrive is Microsoft's online storage space that we can use to store, edit, and share documents and other files that are not much different from online data storage, for example DropBox.

We can access OneDrive from a computer, smartphone, or one of the devices that you use.

To start OneDrive, all you need to do is create a free Microsoft account, if you don't have one already.

Benefits of using OneDrive

After logging in to your Microsoft account, here are some things you can do with OneDrive:

Access your files anywhere:

When you save a file to OneDrive, you can access it from any computer, tablet or smartphone that has an internet connection. You can also create new documents from OneDrive.

Back up your files:

Saving files to OneDrive provides an additional layer of protection. Even if something happens to your computer, OneDrive will store your files safely and can be accessed anytime.

File sharing:

It's easy to share your OneDrive files with friends and coworkers. You can choose whether they can edit or only read files. This option is great for collaboration because several people can edit documents at the same time (this is also known as co-authoring).

Save and open files

When you log in to a Microsoft account, OneDrive will appear as an option every time you save or open a file. You still have the option to save the file to your computer. However, saving files on OneDrive allows you to access them from another computer, and also allows you to share files with friends and coworkers.

For example, when you click Save As, you can choose OneDrive or This PC as the storage location.

HOW TO USE ONEDRIVE

Upload a File

Step: Go to OneDrive> at the top select Upload> if you want to work with files then select the file as well as the folder> select the file / folder you want to upload> Open wait a while for the process to finish.

Download  File

Hover your mouse cursor on the file you want to download precisely at the very top of the file (click once). At the very top, select Download and wait for the process to finish.

Inside OneDrive there are some additional features that we can use including;

Additional Special Features on OneDrive

Searching

Finding the files needed one by one is not an easy matter, because we can be overwhelmed with the many other files. For this reason, OneDrive embeds search features on their services, with this search feature allows you to find various files in search quickly. Only by typing the file name will you immediately find it.

Latest Files

If there is a file that you just uploaded and you don't know where to look, then you have to rely on this one feature, the Latest feature on OneDrive allows you to find every newly uploaded file.

Garbage collection

Garbage collection is like a Recycle Bin on Windows operating systems. Sometimes we accidentally delete important data that should be safe in our storage space. This is a common thing and has become commonplace.

And many additional features when we use OneDrive from Microsoft