If it wasn't so far away I would come to offer you a drink. Man , that's explained as the best. Thanks a lot.

Yay finally found someone who is clear, doesn't rush thru steps, without having to pause and rewind repeatedly to understand, and friendly. Not to mention knowledgeable. You are the one. Thanks Chris

So far the only tutorial I've seen that takes it slow and doesn't require prior experience to soft design.

I accidentally tapped that "always keep on this device" and my files turned out in green tick. dunno what that means since I am not really techie. 👏😊 now I'm on speaking terms with my laptop and OneDrive. Thanks Sir Menard ❤

Brilliantly explained in plain English that even I can understand. Been struggling to understand OneDrive and why it is taking up so much space on my C: Drive when my Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos folders are all on my D: Drive. Now I know! Not only that, I now know how to free up that space. Thanks ever so much.

Cant believe I struggled so long to understand one drive - thank you so much for this

This was great. I recently had a clean install of Windows 10 done on my PC. Although I had most of my files backed up to an external hard drive, I did lose some things. With this new install, I've made the decision to go to One Drive. I'm still a novice at One Drive so this was extremely clear and helpful.

2023 SETTING AND LOCATIONS : are not in this video , but you can figure it out yourself , with this video guide , it helped a lot

Finally, someone that knows what the purpose of the solid green circle means.

Thanks for your explanation! Finally i found some one explain the main difference between the green check mark & the white check mark.

once again KZfaq has saved my life😭😭 thank you so much for the explanation👍💯

Well done! Clear, Concise, and Accurate! Clear videography, clean audio, excellent editing. Thank you.

I had my doubts that you could save my opinion of OneDrive but kudos to you. Without your video OneDrive was the most confusing online back up systems I've ever seen. Now, it makes sense. Thanks so much!!!

When I view onedrive online most my folders are empty, on my pc they have the blue cloud and I click on it and it is empty. I just started using ondrive, but years ago i'm sure my files somehow when to onedrive without me knowing. I was never interested in it back then, but now I'm starting to use it. Lots of stuff to learn. Your video was very good.

Thank you chris menard . From 2021. I am searching for the green tick that comes on folder from one drive . Now I satisfied by this video u explain . Great job man . 👍

At last ... somebody who explains things clearly, not as if I should already know it!

Thank you Chris for your clear explanation🙏 I like your clear pronounciation and the (slow) pace of your explanation 👍

🤔 I've watched several of the onedrive videos on KZfaq and remained confused or worse more 😵‍💫confused than before watching. However, Chris finally managed to get onedrive status icons explained in a way or manner that made it MUCH easier for me. 👍

Thank you for the clear explanation. Refreshing. Nice, calm pacing. Perfect delivery with the just the right amount of detail. Exactly the answer I needed.

I found your video to be the most useful instruction in all of the web. You kept me from making monumental errors.

The icons were confusing and you have aptly clarified.

Chris you are one of the best! Thanks for the detailed explanation

great video, just what i was looking for, concise, clear and informative. not to mention use of in time examples for better understanding.

Very well explained thank you. That has resolved my confusion as to where a particular file/folder is stored - cloud, local or both.

This video is a gem. I've been searching for over a year for a good explanation and walk through on this. Finally a clear thorough explanation. Thank you

Clear, concise,.and no time wasted. Thank you!

Excellent video. There was a lot I didn't understand with OneDrive. Chris made it so easy to understand. I wasn't sure I wanted to spend 13 mins trying to figure out how to sync my OneDrive but this was the BEST 13 mins invested.

Thanks .You explained many things which were not clear to me or not discussed on other youtube videos. Great man.

Thanks alot for this amazing informative video! 🙌🏻✨ I was searching for this for soooo long. Finally found this n now my all worries r gone. 😺

Chris thanks for your outstanding explanation on using One Drive. It is essentially a perfect video. Very clear audio and great pacing showing where to click and the purpose of the activity.

I am a very slow learner in that my preference learning is from wholes down to parts. Your explanations have helped me a great deal to fill in those gaps though. Thank you.

Thanks so much Chris....Ive had one drive for ages and its always been a mystery. You made it so clear and concise. Thank you.

It can't get anymore simple than this. Thank you soo much howtobasic!

Nice work. Clear and unhurried pace yet utilizing the available time so efficiently. Thanks for a great video. And excellent audio quality to go with it. Microsoft has its own tutorial, but yours is much better. Maybe they should hire you before they make their next tutorial. Thumbs up and subscribing.

1) In OneDrive settings one of the default options ticked is Files on Demand is ticked to save space and download files as you use them. I assume we can manually over-ride this when we right click on all our folders and tick "Always keep on this computer". The benefit by de-selecting Files on Demand is that when future folders are created, then the manual option to store locally would not be required. 2) My reason for storing my files both locally and in the web is because I want my computer to backup all my files. When they are only in the cloud it is a false sense of protection. Synch can run amuck, disaster can strike. I want my files protected by an external backup system, and that is not possible with files only available on the cloud. I learned this the hard way, thinking I was backing up my computer files, but actually every folder was EMPTY! So ignorance can be hell. - so to verify, if I have the solid green icons in my file explorer, my files are backing up?

Very very very nicely explained. It sorted out all my doubts and concerns. Thank you so much, Chris. You're doing a great & wonderful job! Keep it up! 😊

Very good explanation for OneDrive. Thank you.

Excellent video, Chris! Thank you.

Thanks man!! great video, super concise and clear!

I agree with @Marc Sierens so we'll have to make it a double as your explanation was so easy to understand and navigate through. Thank you very much

Hi Chris. Thank you so much for this. I've been looking for someone to explain this to me in plain language for so long now. From 'Subscribed & Happy'.

Clear, Simple, Perfect

Excellent explanation. I'm new to this and you made it so simple and clear...far better than One Drive or Microsoft can do Thank you

Excellent. Awesome tutorial. Very simple and to the point. All the best Sir

Thank you Chris! I just learnt so many things. Was wondering why my documents and files have the green check. Now I am fully informed. Grateful for the knowledge sharing. Suli (Fiji)

Thank you for offering such clear and concise information.

Very well explained in very simple terms!!! Well done and many thanks.

Now we understand - this was great information Chris July 202

Thank You ! Very clear and simple !

Thank you so much! All perfectly explained and in a pleasant way to listen to as well :)

Great video... so easy to understand!

I was always fascinated by trap soft, been listening to trap long ti and i finally decided that i will try to make my own but i was so

Thank you so much for your excellent explanation.

Great VDO, this is very helpful and simple understandable. Much appreciated.

Outstanding! Best explanations I've ever gotten.

Great Video Sir !!! Very much appreciated!!!

Explained in detail. Question! 1. If you’re using your institutional one drive space allocated to you, I want to know if the institution can access that account without your knowledge 2. If possible, is there a way one can secure their documents so that the instructions cannot access it? 👍🏿👍🏿

Great info thanks for the 'simplified' training Chris

This was so helpful! Thank you!

Hey man, very clean, interesting and professional. Good sNice tutorialt.

Brilliant video, very informative and clear. Thanks for posting.

Such an brilliant video. Everything so well explained. It all makes sense.

That really was a great explanation

Awesome explanation, thanks!

thanks for a really nice walkthrough

Chris, spectacular, thank you...

Excellent Video! Very simple and to the point

Thanks alot! Your explanation was quick and easy

Great video. I didn't know this was how it worked. Thank you.

I made a mistake last month to download all my files to the OneDrive how can I remove them.

Chris brilliant video thank you

Nice explanation, thanks!

Thank you so much for good information.

Thank you, finally I understand.

Thanks! very informative. Stuff, if you don't know about it already, is useful immediately and supports productivity.

Excellent video. Please keep'em coming!

Excellent video, thanks Chris 👍

Thank you for the information. Exactly what I needed.

clear explanation.. good graphics , Thanks

Informative... OneDrive is wonderful indeed.

Brilliant thank you, I think Microsoft need to put some safeguard defaults in place, the average user could easily loose files due to lack of understanding, by default user files should be always stored locally, we lost some photos recently because we did not understand this,when we set it up we did not select that feature

Your videos are so helpful!!!

Thank you so much for this video. Could you show us how we can set up both a personal and a work or school OneDrive account on a new computer or desktop.

Great explanation..thanks so much..

There is also the Sync symbol. Two curved blue arrows. One on top, one on bottom. Reminds you of the Yin-Yang symbol.

Thanks , very informative.

Informative video. Thank you

Thanks. I needed that. 😊

thank you so much. very helpful!

Absolutely excellent !!!

I have a question, my OneDrive expired, so I renewed it, but all of my desktop icon lost their images. Now they just have the white page with the blue internet explorer “e” them, how do I restore the images to my icons?

You sir, are a godsend. Thanks!

Great video, clear explanations. I'm new to OneDrive. If you delete a file that's local, it goes to the recycle bin. What if it's cloud only, does it get downloaded and placed into the recycle bin? Also when a file, say is in the cloud Documents folder and is downloaded to your desktop, where does it go? I ask because my OneDrive Documents folder shows files with a green check mark, but my local Documents folder shows "This folder is empty".

Thank you for the video, it was very helpful!

BEST explanation of OneDrive I have ever seen. I do have a question. I am running Windows 10 21H1. When I Right-Click on either of my two OneDrive folders (personal and work), the "free up space" option is grayed out. Any ideas? Thanks again for an outstanding tutorial!

lmao i was tNice tutorialnking the sa but don't give up! We got tNice tutorials!

Excellent video. Thanks. And yes, OneDrive is very good

Great video! Very clear! Thank you!

Best explanation out there! Thanks!

Awesome Tutorial! I am a little confused about the cloud versus this PC for storing pictures and stuff. I have been conditioned to store files onto my PC; however, it seems that pics and files stored onto this PC C drive are also stored in my cloud?