How To Setup Personal Vault For OneDrive Desktop
Personal Vault in OneDrive is a secure folder in which you can store important files and documents to limit access. This feature is only available for OneDrive Home and Personal accounts. Personal Vault is available for OneDrive Web, OneDrive Mobile app, and OneDrive Desktop.
To access this folder, additional authentication is needed besides the usual sign-in to OneDrive. Also, it automatically locks...
The OneDrive Standalone Storage Plan: What Is It
The free plan for OneDrive storage includes up to 5 GB of storage. To get more space, usually, an Office subscription is needed which includes all the Office apps and a OneDrive storage of 1 TB. However, if you just need some extra space for OneDrive without opting for the Office subscription, there is a standalone plan available too. This plan offers a space of 100 GB without any other services, which...
How To Turn Off Auto Tagging For Photos In OneDrive
Photos stored in OneDrive are automatically tagged using AI based on their content to organize them. Even though these tags are generated automatically without any human review or intervention, you can choose to turn off OneDrive tagging for photos.
To do that, log in to OneDrive. Then, click on the Settings icon and choose Options.
From the various settings sections, click on Tagging.
Turn off...
How To Turn Off OneDrive ‘On This Day’ Notifications
OneDrive, by default, sends email notifications about photos and videos stored from the past days and years. This is the On this day notifications feature that is enabled by default.
If you don’t want to receive these notifications then they can be turned off.
Here is how:
Login to OneDrive and click on the gear icon from the top-right. Then click on Options.
Scroll down and select Notifications.
Under...
How To Embed Photos And Documents From OneDrive
Besides sharing documents and other contents, the web version of OneDrive also has the option of directly embedding them within blogs and webpages. This is a useful feature when you want to link these from OneDrive without having to download and reupload them or requiring them to be accessed without signing in.
Here is how:
Embed photos:
To embed photos, select the specific photo from the OneDrive...
How To Stop Sharing Files In OneDrive
Files and items in OneDrive can be shared in different ways like using a shareable link and through email invites. These files can at anytime be stopped from being shared.
Here is how to do it (this example uses the OneDrive Personal account):
Login to OneDrive. Then click on Shared from the left pane.
This will display a list of files that are shared so far. To stop sharing, right-click on the specific...
