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I do the saving like you, because I have a lot of documents to save.  Apart from the work as a treasurer, my husband doesn't save much and the program he uses is the same one all the branches of the club uses, so it's automatically saved on the national site and always available to him when he logs in. 

Personally I find One Drive very annoying.

I disabled it.

I do not want any personal files stored in any Cloud.

I have all my personal files under my own control and backed up to two portable hard drives.

I agree, I was going to cancel it on this laptop, save to the hard drive and the external portable hard drive but I hadn't got round to it.  It was the previous computer bod who set it all up with OneDrive etc. even though I told him I didn't want it.  How do you back up to two portable hard drives?  Can you plug them in both at the same time, or back up to them at different times?  Is a memory stick good enough as a 2nd one?  I don't know anything about computers, only how to use it, rather like a car, I can drive it but I'm not a motor mechanic!

I have bought a new laptop and had OneDrive on the old one.  I signed on to OneDrive on the new laptop and the files and folders from the old laptop have appeared.  So far, so good, but whereas I had them all in My Documents under various headings, they are all just in OneDrive on the new laptop.  I checked and they are also in OneDrive in the old laptop as a copy of what I have under My Documents.

Why have they not transferred exactly as I had the on the old laptop and how can I get all my files and folders to My Documents.  It has been suggested I just move them one by one but that would be tedious as I have hundreds of documents, plus my Legacy family file.

Please help.

I tried local computer people but everyone wants to take both laptops away and I don't want that, I want them to come to me.  We did have someone who would come to us, but I found he wasn't as efficient as he appeared to be and I spent a lot of time getting my old laptop as I wanted it.

My husband also has a new laptop, and as he is treasurer of a local society and does everything on line, he also needs things transferred to be like he uses them.

I have an external hard drive which backs up daily, if I plug that into the new machine will it transfer everything as I like it.

I downloaded Chrome as I prefer it to Microsoft, and everything downloaded instantly, including all my bookmarks, I also downloaded Thunderbird and all my emails were there, plus some files I have down one side which I use until the subject is completed.  So why couldn't OneDrive do the same, or is it just that the previous computer man didn't set it up correctly?

Yes, often American words and American pictures.  Traffic lights pictures are often a problem because they're not like ours.  Also, when asked for bikes or motorbikes, are we supposed to click on a square that just has the end of a handlebar? I hate those Captcha things, on occasions I've had to do them 3 or 4 times before I get the "right" pictures.

It was invented by a Guatemalan-American, from a single parent family, who sold the company to Google in 2009, I had read somewhere that he regrets inventing it because he hadn't realised how annoying it could be.  He's also co-founder of Duolingo with one of his graduate students.