Although OneDrive is automatically set up on a new Windows computer, the majority of the user’s personal files are currently saved to locations that are not backed up, e.g.

C:\Users[username]\Documents
C:\Users[username]\Pictures
C:\Users[username]\Music
C:\Users[username]\Videos
C:\Users[username]\Desktop
C:\Users[username]\Downloads
C:\Users[username]\Contacts
C:\Users[username]\Favorites
…etc.

One possible workaround currently is to:

1) Create duplicate folders in OneDrive called Documents, Videos, Desktop, Downloads, Contacts, Favorites, etc. These will look like regular empty folders without any special thumbnail designation.

2) Go find your “default” user folders (the ones with thumbnails and files inside) in C:\Users[username]

3) Right click these “default” user folders and choose “Properties” > “Location” > “Move”

4) Once you have clicked “move”, then under “select a destination”, navigate to the “new” folders you have created in OneDrive and select them

5) Now the new folders you have created in OneDrive will become the “default” documents / pictures / music / video / desktop / downloads / contacts / favorites / etc. folders, gaining thumbnails and containing your personal files

6) Any files saved to these folders, including places not usually backed up like desktop, downloads, favorites, etc. will now be backed up to OneDrive.

For the ordinary user however, this is a convoluted, time-consuming and possibly tricky process.

My suggestion: Simply locate all these personal user folders (pictures / music / video / desktop / downloads / contacts / favorites / etc.) inside the OneDrive folder by default, e.g.

C:\OneDrive\Documents
C:\OneDrive\Pictures
C:\OneDrive\Music
C:\OneDrive\Videos
C:\OneDrive\Desktop
C:\OneDrive\Downloads
C:\OneDrive\Contacts
C:\OneDrive\Favorites
…etc.

As for advanced users who would rather not back up their personal files to the cloud, or would rather choose a different service for their backup, simply allow them to opt-out during OneDrive setup on their new computer.

I believe that by locating these “default” user folders within the user's OneDrive folder by default in Windows 10, a lot of headache, frustration and lost data will be spared.

Its just unreasonable in todays world to restrict file uploads to 10GB. Its been a long time people have been asking for this. When MS removed unlimited storage, I was dissappointed just like many others. This stupid limit of 10GB made sense in that time because you can probably abuse the system by uploading huge files, ********* abusers. But now that there is a limit of only 1TB on the account, how in the world is this Stupid limit of 10 GB justified? I mean if I record a comcert from my iphone 7 plus, the raw video is 15 GB plus! No delta sync, fine, I can live with that. But if you want me to cut my files into pieces just because they won't fit on your storage, then you might as well shut down the product and accept the fact that OneDrive is merely a scam, otherwise give us a product that competes with top.players like DropBox or Google Drive!

I can't imagine moving my stuff off the OneDrive to something else, and I doubt that it won't last longer.

The following problems were documented on Microsoft's community page here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/files/i-am-having-multiple-problems-with-skydrive-in/3194a7ee-bef6-4c41-b199-0bb1a4da6e2e

I never received a solution:

I can't wrap my head around SkyDrive in Windows 8.1. These are the problems that I am having:
1.I select a folder, and then select online only. The Available Offline disappears. I come back 5 minutes later, and the folder once again says "Available Offline."

2.When you select online only, after a folder was available offline, you should see some status as to what is happening. i.e. these 650 files are being deleted.

3.The SkyDrive App says "Downloading 6 items..." in the upper right of the screen. It has been downloading the same 6 items for the past 3-4 hours. These items in total are not even a mb in size. When I go to Task Manager, it shows that SkyDrive is not uploading or downloading anything.
4.My disk usage is at 100%. SkyDrive is showing at 1-4MB/s. What is it doing if it is not uploading/downloading anything?
5.There is no make this thing stop button, so it hogs my bandwidth when I am trying to upload or download something. When uploading several websites (6+gigs of data), SkyDrive was constantly uploading something (0.4Mbps +/-)
6.If the files are not on my computer, I do not want to see them in Explorer, that is VERY confusing to me, and to some of the programs that I use.
7.I apparently had a sync error once. This led to some folders containing 2-3 instances of the same files with the computers name differentiating the different file. i.e. blahblahcomputer1.blah and blahblahcomputer2.blah. These were ASP.net project directories, so the applications would not compile because of this. I had to manually delete these extra files.
8.Following a sync error, some directories which were set to be available offline, did not have all of the files downloaded. None of these files showed up as being pending in the download process in the app. I did not discover that these files were not downloaded, until I tried to compile my app. This would have been evident, if only the files actually on my hard drive were shown in explorer.
9.As a user of multiple PC's, I have no idea as to which has priority. I should be able to select a PC as being the master, with the other PC's being slaves. I should also be able to make a determination as to which file should override which. I never receive any notifications about this, so I have no idea how priority is determined.

All of these problems can be fixed by reverting back to the SkyDrive desktop app that was previously available.

Microsoft Office and Windows are the most popular for the users but why they cannot save it in the official cloud from Microsoft Onedrive ?

here is the rules :
1- when you buy the product, Microsoft will share it directly in the cloud for your account.
2- Microsoft will delete old product and share the last update to make sure the user re-install the last update for the product.
3-the product cannot be sharing for other user.
4- Try to talk with Google ,Apple ,Dropbox,Box, ...etc that they cannot upload the Microsoft product without the user prove that he is the owner of the product by any way.
5-Also don't allow these company to help the user to share the products.
6- The space for products is free and of course for other clouds is not free that will be good from Microsoft for the user.
7- Microsoft can add a new rules as he wants.

the reasons :
1-help the user to save his products in OneDrive.
2-save the products without copy.
3-stop the competitors for example Google drive allow upload high space and you can share the file and i think i saw before a copy windows in Google drive and when i try to download so fast that will not be good for Microsoft and that will make some users like Google drive for upload and share a copy windows.

finally,i know the users don't like my idea but i hope Microsoft to be seriously to save his products and to support his Customer.