One Drive Cloud

Question

Years and years ago, i started out using the email address of "@msn.com" i don't even know what happened, but i started paying 19.95 a year to use hotmail which then became outlook with my same address. Now, again i don't know what has happened, but with this one drive cloud thing. One drive is 99.6 full. outlook is less than one gb full. My computer is a long ways from full and microsoft want me to pay 99.99 for a lot of stuff i don't want or need.. how can i get out of this one drive cloud thing that i don't want or need. i don't think. I am definitely not a pro i don't do a lot of fancy things. i receive a lot of emails and delete a lot of emails.. i do pictures and i pay bills. lAnd look up a lot of information i have information stored, i copy receipts and store and manuals and i have files stored. HELP

Answer 1

Hello BETTY POLING,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A forum

I understand you wish not to use OneDrive service anymore.

What kind of subscription plan are you using? Is it annually or monthly? Do you use other Microsoft services that come with it such as Office?

OneDrive sync file from your computer. Because of it, files and pictures or information, receipts and manuals which are store in your PC is also going to be upload and store to your OneDrive. That explain why your OneDrive running out of storage.

It ties to your Microsoft account, so you can get out of it. But you can choose not using it function entirely on your computer.

Here is what you can do if you wish to stop using OneDrive:

First is to check what’s taking up all your OneDrive space.

• Go to https://onedrive.live.com/ and see which folders/files are taking up space.
• Often, the “Desktop,” “Documents,” or “Pictures” folders sync automatically.

Then move those files out of OneDrive

• Copy files from OneDrive folders to a local folder on your computer.
• After moving, delete them from OneDrive online to free space.

To turn off or uninstall OneDrive on your computer, please refer to this site:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

Feel free to reply back to this post in the add comment section if you need assistance, I'll be happy to help.

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