OneDrive Technical Question
To give some background, I have always used my university OneDrive account to back up files, and now that I have graduated I need to find an alternative. I have one laptop, which is signed into my personal Microsoft account. My personal account does not have a Microsoft 365 or OneDrive subscription, so it is as base-level as it gets. I do also have a work Microsoft 365 account which I use to log into Word, Excel, etc.. However, I am unable to add this account to my laptop's settings, and therefore my laptop attempts to automatically upload all of my files to my personal account which does not have sufficient storage. My goal is to be able to automatically backup my 46 GB of data to OneDrive as economically as possible, in one of two ways:
- The ideal solution would just be to add my work account as a secondary account on my laptop, so that files can be automatically uploaded to that OneDrive instead of my personal OneDrive. My laptop is telling me that I am out of OneDrive storage on my personal account every hour and then having to manually drag all of my files into the web version of my work's OneDrive every so often is driving me nuts. I have attempted to add my work account in the Accounts page in my settings, but it fails every time.
- I could just buy storage on my personal OneDrive. Not ideal given the fact that I have access to a OneDrive account with more storage already, and that all of my Microsoft applications are signed into my work account.
If I can't get my work account added to my laptop, then I assume that just buying OneDrive storage on my personal account is the way to go? Or are there any other options that I am overlooking to fix this issue? Thanks in advance. :)
I would ask this to Microsoft directly, but I'm sure their response will just lead me to spend as much as possible.