What can I do when my 25GB of OneDrive cloud storage is cut to 5GB?
by Jack Schofield from Technology | The Guardian on (#1GM35)
Andrew has 23.5GB of photos and documents in OneDrive. Next month, Microsoft is reducing the free storage allowance to 5GB. What should he do?
I have 23.5GB of photos and documents in OneDrive. In July, OneDrive's free storage ceiling will be reduced to just 5GB. Will I just lose a lot of data in July or does Microsoft have a duty to retain it for a period of time?
How easy is it to transfer all my data to another service? What options might be best? Andrew
Microsoft used to offer 15GB of free storage in OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), and a bonus offer added an extra 15GB for a camera roll. Microsoft did announce that it would be reducing the free storage to 5GB, but after protests, it allowed users to keep the storage they had.
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