USB memory advice

[hoohoohoo]

actually they are.

Also magnetic optical is probably most reliable.

Or perhaps laser engraved onto diamond slabs, encased in stasis field, in a underground bunker that is nuke proof.

Uh oh, we're at bunkers now. I think we blew swan55's budget

 

[slartibartfast]

Nearly all IT professionals I know switch off the Desktop backup in One Drive but leave Documents and perhaps Pictures - they use Desktop as a transient store. My vinyl rips go to somewhere outside the scope of One Drive altogether and my resultant FLACs go to my NAS which has a backup strategy involving another offsite synchronised NAS.

Just turned off Desktop backup and everything on my Desktop apart from shortcuts disappeared. I didn't expect that
Strange thing is, everything is still in my OneDrive Desktop folder but not on my actual desktop.

 

[Pcryan5]

Our PC based music library is approx 220gb with many more cd's waiting to be loaded.
We would like to copy them to a usb memory stick for plugging into our Ultra for playback.

I use a LaCie Mobile Drive 5TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD ($225CAD / 122 GDP) - works great - no idea how hot it gets as it sits on my delay and behaves itself.

 

[Pcryan5]

Two sticks should do it.

I back everything up offsite to cloud. As whose house burnt down once.

 

[reniro]

If you backup the entire stick and re-write to a new USB stick is that file still valid do you know?

yes it will work if the content is exactly the same. I've done that when switching from a 1TB m2 drive to a 2TB version.

 

[hgo58]

Just turned off Desktop backup and everything on my Desktop apart from shortcuts disappeared. I didn't expect that
Strange thing is, everything is still in my OneDrive Desktop folder but not on my actual desktop.

You have the desktop synchronized with OneDrive, not backed up. The desktop is then only saved on OneDrive and not locally. If you have multiple PCs set up like that, they will have a shared desktop.

 

[slartibartfast]

You have the desktop synchronized with OneDrive, not backed up. The desktop is then only saved on OneDrive and not locally. If you have multiple PCs set up like that, they will have a shared desktop.

How did I manage to do that then?

 

[d6jg]

How did I manage to do that then?

You selected the OneDrive defaults

 

[d6jg]

You have the desktop synchronized with OneDrive, not backed up. The desktop is then only saved on OneDrive and not locally. If you have multiple PCs set up like that, they will have a shared desktop.

Actually inside OneDrive app Microsoft does refer to the Documents, Pictures & Desktop sync as a "backup"

 

[hgo58]

Actually inside OneDrive app Microsoft does refer to the Documents, Pictures & Desktop sync as a "backup"

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But will only be on local PC also, if configured to. You can do that on each folder on OneDrive.

The folders on OneDrive is securely backed up, so you will not loose those. This is however not the same as they are on the PC. They just look local.

I think this has to do with how you log in on the PC. Locally or with a Microsoft account?

 

[Burnside]

Actually inside OneDrive app Microsoft does refer to the Documents, Pictures & Desktop sync as a "backup"

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It’s a pain. I foolishly agreed to this when prompted last week and it took me a while to undo it as it messed up my shortcuts iirc to various files. Backup for me doesn’t mess with the source, but clearly MS thinks it knows better…

 

[slartibartfast]

But will only be on local PC also, if configured to. You can do that on each folder on OneDrive.

The folders on OneDrive is securely backed up, so you will not loose those. This is however not the same as they are on the PC. They just look local.

I think this has to do with how you log in on the PC. Locally or with a Microsoft account?

So if I check the box to back up Desktop those files should reappear on my PC. I then need to fiddle around in settings to store them only my PC then uncheck Desktop again to stop them wasting space in the cloud. What a palaver

 

[Swan55]

Uh oh, we're at bunkers now. I think we blew swan55's budget

I'm afraid that you are correct;

Our deliberations have now reached the stage where Mrs.Swan ("Pen" to the family) is now taking an interest !

 

[slartibartfast]

But will only be on local PC also, if configured to. You can do that on each folder on OneDrive.

The folders on OneDrive is securely backed up, so you will not loose those. This is however not the same as they are on the PC. They just look local.

I think this has to do with how you log in on the PC. Locally or with a Microsoft account?

I see no way to keep the Desktop files local and not on OneDrive. Even if make the Desktop files always available locally they still disappear if I uncheck the Desktop folder in OneDrive settings. It seems to be impossible to remove those files from the cloud.
Microsoft even say that you can't "uncheck certain folders which are important to the PC, including Documents, Desktop, Pictures and your Personal Vault folder"
How on earth is this meant to work?