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My One Drive is telling me I have used 90% of storage & need to go premium
October 4, 2020
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Martha Reistetter
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Hello,

I have selected High Quality for my pictures. Do I have to pay the fee for more storage? Photos is all I am uploading, no files or anything else. 

Thanks.

Marti Reistetter

October 8, 2020
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Yes, OneDrive does not have the option of choosing High Quality and getting free unlimited storage – it’s only Google Photos that does that. 

If you want to continue backing up photos to OneDrive, you have 2 choices:

  1. Pay for premium – I pay $70/year for Microsoft 365 and that also includes 1 Terrabyte of storage. That’s plenty for me.
  2. Set OneDrive to sync photos to your computer,then move the photos from the OneDrive folder to some other folder on your computer – this clears the storage space in OneDrive so you can stay under the 5GB free allotment

Let me know of further questions.

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