Windows 10: New "Personal Vault" 3 file limit?

Can someone please explain to me why MS only allows 3 files to be uploaded to "Personal Vault" even though I have a 100 gig account with One Drive and still have almost all of that empty?

Personal vault is only a protected folder inside One Drive, so how can MS justify charging extra for someone who has a 100 gig subscription to benefit from using it, 3 files is a joke!

:)

 

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@Hewjr100 Thanks for the heads up!

Looks like a hook to get an Office 365 subscription. Otherwise there's a meager 3 file limit. ;o(

 

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Why indeed? I suppose as a tease to subscribe to Office 365. I found it odd even those who pay for storage plans, like 100g are stilll limited to this 3 file limit.

I thought of deleting this 'Personal Vault' too, but like other seemingly required OneDrive folders unused by me such as 'Documents' and 'Attachments', and that when deleted, will just reappear again - I figured why bother? I did find it odd however my OneDrive phone app doesn't include this new 'Personal Vault'.

Worth noting, when I opened my desktop OneDrive the first time, and was prompted to check out the 'Personal Vault', the program updated itself and yet did not change the version number, it remains 19.152.0801.0008.

However it did move itself from:

C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

to a new folder it created under Program Files (x86):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

I only found this out when my pinned task bar icon became obsolete.

Updated: On second thought, I hate looking at something I'm not going to use. And while I was told online I could not delete this 'Personal Vault', I was told I could 'Disable' it once I provided authorization so it would be hidden. Then when I opened my desktop app, the folder disappeared.

 

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Here's some more details about OneDrive Personal Vault to help.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micr...ional-storage/

Microsoft OneDrive

Protect your OneDrive files in Personal Vault - OneDrive