Windows 10: I want to move everything off OneDrive onto my mass storage thumb. Cloud would work if I...

I want to move all my files from One Drive to a mass storage thumb so all my files are in one spot. The drive on this pc doesn't have the space, but my thumb drive does. I have 8 drives on my network do they all have to be online to do the mass dump? The format on the thumb is exFat. Will that work or does it need to be NTFS? The cloud concept works provided I have complete control over what is being taken off my devices. I need a master reset with everything I have moved to my mass storage. Then I can configure which files are useful to have in cloud storage. Thanks

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is OneDrive storage in the Cloud?

is OneDrive storage in the Cloud?

 

USB Mass Storage Issues with Thumb Drives

I'm having issues with a USB drive. I've tried several different thumb drives in every USB port on my desktop. When inserting the drive, Windows makes the noise recognizing it's been inserted.

The drive does not show up in explorer. I went to Device Manager and it/they are showing up under "Other Devices" with the orange triangle and exclamation point to it. Double clicking and trying to "update driver", I get "Windows found drivers for your
device but encountered an error while attempting to install them." "USB Mass Storage Device".

When troubleshooting, I saw instructions to delete the various drivers under Universal Serial Bus controllers (there are several under there.....but USB Mass Storage Device is NOT listed), and then rebooting. I did try deleting some and the end result was
my wireless keyboard stopped working and I had to go back to a restore point from a couple of weeks ago.

In short, I appear to be missing a USB Mass Storage Driver and see no way to re-install one. I have no idea how this would happen, I don't use this computer very often.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Cloud storage (aka Onedrive will suck so need to find something else)

So, I will have to move away from Onedrive, which is sad because it's frankly the best free cloud storage I know of. But as someone said: "Microsoft realized they accidentaly made a great service." and they'll change it so that starting soon this will happen (the things that affect me anyway):

• 100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
• Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016.

This is so much crap. I use the free version and yeah $1.99/month I probably could afford, but it still SUCKS. Seriously, I usually don't get the MS hate, but this is a poop-poop move.

So I need something new.

Dropbox is out. Too tiny. Google Drive might be an alternative, but I'd rather not, for ... reasons I can't remember right now.

What I need:

• something like 15GB storage or so.
• Automatic photo uploading from my phone (Android)
• Preferably an actual app for Android (yes I know you can setup ES File Explorer and the like but that's usually pretty cumbersome)

The simplest solution I'm actually leaning towards is just to give up and get a 100GB plan now (current 100/200GB plans will not be affected, in the future they won't be avaliable to new customers), but that's the easy way out. *Frown