Donald Mackay's Collected Hints and tips
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Donald L Mackay
Hints and Tips

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Cloud Storage Backup

There are several cloud storage providers who will provide free online storage (backup).
You can use more than one together on Windows. If you nest the folders, the innermost one will be stored on all cloud storage providers. e.g.
C:\Users\xxxxxx\SkyDrive\Google Drive\Cloud Drive

Moving amazon-cloud-drive folder

http://damianblog.com/2013/04/01/amazon-cloud-drive-location/

Do this entirely at your own risk, and if you don’t know what this means, then don’t do it.
You can use regedit to change the sync folder’s location, under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Amazon\AmazonCloudDrive\SyncRoot" change "SyncRoot" to a different folder.

Moving Google Drive folder

http://gappstips.com/docs-tips/view/106/change-the-google-drive-default-folder

  1. Click on the Google Drive icon in your system tray
  2. Choose Quit Google Drive
  3. Now move the Google Drive folder within Windows Explorer to a new location
  4. Restart Google Drive from Start --> All Programs
  5. Google Drive will warn you that it can't find the folder, click on the Google Drive icon again and choose Error - Google Drive folder is missing
  6. A window will open up, choose Locate folder and go find the new Google Drive folder.

Moving SkyDrive folder

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/skydrive-files/move-skydrive-folder/3fa8e82b-2030-4327-bbe8-be27912515e3?msgId=aaea9657-b3d2-46a3-8a80-b003e4b90876

  1. Wait until existing folder in sync.
  2. Disconnect Skydrive
  3. Move folder
  4. Reconnect Skydrive to new folder
  5. Wait for Skydrive to complete it's merge (which seems to be a check only).




LAST UPDATED: 02 February 2018 (Bluetooth File Transfer)