What you need: OneDrive account Time required: Minimum of one hour
14 pages of easy-to-follow workshops and expert tips
Online storage providers want you to synchronise as much as you can. The more you upload to their servers, the more they can charge you for storage. Because you’re likely to upload your files and not touch them for years, the charges can roll over month to month, perhaps forever. No wonder they make it so easy to sync automatically.
Take Microsoft’s OneDrive as an example. Its software is built into Windows, and OneDrive is the default location for saving Microsoft Office files. The program also lets you sync your Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders (1 in our screenshot), save photos and videos from other devices 2 and automatically upload screenshots 3. All of this is useful, but syncing a lot of files can push you towards the limits of your account, at which point you may need to upgrade to a more expensive plan.
But that’s not the only way you might end up using more space than you expect. Microsoft recently told some OneDrive users that from mid-October adding a photo to an album would mean it counts twice againstfor if you’re using the free 5GB tier.
