Hello again. I'm having a frustrating issue when trying to move my files from OneDrive to iCloud Drive, both with my iPhone and Windows laptop.
Background: I did some research and learned that I could save quite a bit of money by upgrading my iCloud storage plan from 50GB to 200GB, as compared to the Office 365 yearly subscription. I looked at the amount of storage space that my wife and I have between our 2 accounts, and I came up with a number which was well within the 200GB allowance.
The problem: Each time I try to move some media files, consisting of music, movies and other stuff I have collected over the years, I get an error that there is not enough space on the destination drive. This has happened both on my iPhone and Windows 10 laptop using the iCloud app. I was certain that there would be enough space, since my calculations showed that I would be using around 157GB of space. However, after getting the same error on both iOS and Windows consistantly, I thought I would post the issue here. The obvious answer is that I truly have run out of space. I suppose I'm stuck on exactly how that could happen when the total amount of data and files in my household only uses 80% of the 200GB.
Worst case, I will just play all that media from an external drive. I would rather play the media from the cloud, especially since I don't use the laptop much anymore. I'm leaning toward keeping the iCloud upgraded storage. After all, it is still cheaper than Office. All thoughts and suggestions welcome.
By Bookworm, 29 November, 2024
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My first guess.
Is there stuff in there already? If you already had it set up, your phone at least was backing up some stuff to it. If you had it shared, not sure you can do that if you were using the free version, then your wife's phone, assuming she also has an iPhone or was directing her phone at it, could also be backed up there. It should tell you how much space you're using already. So you should be able to check and do the math. Alternatively, just move your files in smaller batches and check space as you go.
Is it iCloud Drive running…
Is it iCloud Drive running out of space or your device? When moving you'll have to pull down files and they then will upload to iCloud. iCloud, as a rule, isn't very fast at uploading so it might be bottle necking.
I, having tried several cloud options, would suggest google drive as your best bet. I'm not sure how much you are paying for the upgrade to 200 gb on iCloud, but I can't imagine it will be much more on google drive. Also, I completely understand re one drive, it's the worst of the bunch.
It's $2.99 for 200 GB in the US.
Google drive looks like $1.99 for 100 GB, or $9.99 for 2 TB. iCloud is also $9.99 for 2 TB, so at least they match out there. I didn't feel like checking beyond that,and of course, could be different for other countries. But unless Google beats it at greater storage volume, looks like they're pretty comparable at higher tiers, and that iCloud is better than Google, if you don't want to upgrade to TB levels of storage.
I think google is a better…
I think google is a better service though. You can choose to stream files or mirror to a hdd of your choice, which you can't with iCloud. Generally, I've found iCloud clunky. Fine for documents and apps, but I also use something called infuse which can play downloaded movies direct onto my apple TV, kinda like plex without needing a server. I've got a bunch of audio described files I've just make Mp4, and it indexes them and pulls down the meta data. Being so locked down, you can't do this with iCloud. Like a lot of apple products, it's highly limitting though, I do know many people who are fine with it. Maybe I'm also of the opinion that apple already gets enough of my money! :)
What's wrong with ...
Not to derail the topic here, but what is wrong with OneDrive? You guys are comparing prices and such, but OneDrive, as part of Microsoft Office, is only about $7.48 a month. That's for one terabyte, and that's including taxes. At least here in the states.
So what is wrong with OneDrive exactly?
Thanks in advance.
Storage and price comparison
This is what I have found regarding storage and prices. Though iCloud, Google Drive, and OneDrive are all similar, there are a few differences.
OneDrive: You get 1TB of storage for either a monthly price of between $7 and $8, and an annual price of about $72 or more.
iCloud Drive offers only monthly prices of 50GB for $0.99, 200GB for $2.99, and then we get into the big prices of $9.99 for terabytes. The prices continue to go up if you need more than 1 or 2TB.
Google Drive offers 100GB for $1.99 per month. 200GB for $2.99 per month, and then there's a jump up to 1TB for $9.99. The prices and storage amounts go up from there.
For me, Google Drive has a much more affordable annual cos of $30 for 200GB. The annual prices continue going up with 1TB for $99, and more depending on how much storage you want. Since I only need 200GB, I found the yearly cost of $30 more attractive than the Office 365 $72 for 1TB. Either I couldn't find it or there is no cheaper annual price for the 1TB Office option.
Notes:
1. Some of my figures may be slightly off, so refer to the website for each service.
2. Regarding the Google prices, it took me a little bit to find the 200GB option, but it is listed on the Google Drive site and in your Google account settings page.
3. Finally another thing that drew me to Google Drive was that they can import and store your iOS device photos. All of these services can do that, but Google was the only one I came across which said it can also import and store pictures from Facebook. My wife was very interested in this aspect, since she has posted a lot of photos to Facebook over the years.
Apparently all the Google storage upgrades go through not only the Google site, but also with an app called Google One, which is in the iOS App Store.
Thank you for explaining
Thanks for putting up those price comparisons, it makes a little more sense why people seem to prefer Google Drive to the other "Drive" options. I knew Google could take on iCloud photos, didn't know about the Facebook photos thing though. That's interesting.
The value in microsoft 365…
The value in microsoft 365 is microsoft word, or adds to the value.
I think the issue with one drive, or was when I've used it in the past, is it has been broken several times for us voiceover users, was inaccessible from the menu bar also, for some reason, it is a power hog. That and the fact that word, again, since I last checked, hasn't moved the dial on accessibility and still has it's annoyances, the google package seems to be the best of the three. There are, of course, other alternatives, but probably best to stick with the big three for the sake of security and support.
Ah ...
When you say not accessible from the MenuBar, are you referring to a Mac computer? I only ask because on my windows 11 laptop, I have no issues at all with OneDrive.
OneDrive
The OneDrive accessibility issues with Menu Extras have all been all resolved as far as I can tell. I can't comment on the extent to which Microsoft Word issues have been addressed. The ones I care about haven't been yet, but I'm not much of a Microsoft Word user either.
Obviously, it's awesome that we have choices.
But I will say when looking at "Google Drive", you'll see why I put it in quotes in a second, it was pretty confusing. If I google Google Drive storage prices or such, I usually get Google One, which may or may not be available on my account, I think it is, which of course means it's not going to be for some people. But I also found a page referencing Google One and at least two different versions of something called Google Workspace or such. So I actually have no earthly idea which one I'd want to use if I want to upgrade from my free 15 GB of space, which Google calls Google Drive. You'd think there would, reasonably, be something called Google Drive that I upgrade storage space for. But apparently, Google is using some definition of reasonably with which I was previously unacquainted.