How best to get 150 GB uploaded to OneDrive.

Hi roninrr2

What I suggest you do is upload them in sets over a period of time. Thats a lot of images and its likely a one time upload might fail.

Also, I would not upload them through http://www.onedrive.com

Browsers crash and it makes it difficult to pick up from where you left off.

What you should do instead is drag and drop 5 GBs into the OneDrive folder in File Explorer, let it upload each set.

After you have successfully moved over each, you can enable OneDrive on demand, so you access only the photos you want when you need them.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-onedriv...

Information in the above link is sourced from a trusted Microsoft MVP Blog.

I was in exactly your position not long ago - 155GB of photos that I wanted to upload to OneDrive for archiving and to share with family and friends.

You are/I was up against two limitations:

1. Most ISPs limit upload speed to just a fraction of download speed.
2. OneDrive itself will place a limit on upload speed.

Thus, a single upload of 155 - 200 GB might take several days to complete. But even if you were willing to wait it out, the internet is not robust enough to complete a single upload that large. (At least, not without a dedicated connection end-to-end.) Its almost a certainty that the upload will disconnect along the way and you'll have to figure out exactly where the connection dropped and then start over from that point. OneDrive itself may stop your upload somewhere along the way, because consumers don't commonly upload that much at one time. If you have OneDrive for Business that may not be the case.

I uploaded 4 or 5 GB at a time over several weeks. You might consider other cloud storage services, but unless you have a business plan with the service and with your ISP, you're likely to have the same experience.

Hi,

I'm Diego Rios, an Independent Advisor willing to help other Microsoft customers.

You can try the following procedures below to upload files and Pics into OneDrive:

1. On the OneDrive website https://onedrive.live.com sign in with your Microsoft account, and then browse to the location where you want to add the files.
2. Select Upload.
3. Select the files you want to upload, and then select Open.

In the link below, explain step by step:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/upload...

Please let me know if this helped and works.

Best Regards,

Diego R.

I was in a similar situation.  This method worked for me but the caveat is you need sufficient hard drive space.

1. Setup the files/folders in a folder (not onedrive) lets call it temp for uploading.  Break them into groups of files that make sense and you can work with easily.  Setup a second folder, lets call that completed uploads
2. Setup the onedrive client to sync the local onedrive folder to the cloud
3. Copy a small group of the files from the temp folder into the onedrive folder
4. Monitor onedrive it should upload over time in the background
5. Once uploaded move the completed files from the temp folder into the completed folder
6. Repeat these steps
7. Once everything has gradually moved into onedrive delete the temp and completed folders that are local on your hard drive, leaving the migrated files in the onedrive folder (and synced).

Depending on your network and internet connection speeds this can take a while but is a method you can just leave doing its thing.

I can't comment on your method because I haven't tried that and, quite frankly, would not be inclined to do so.

Only one OneDrive folder per computer, although you can certainly have subfolders within that folder.