Microsoft One Drive

Microsoft OneDrive

I have a free account on Microsoft OneDrive. As part of my new year housekeeping I wanted to review how much storage they gave me. I had a 3x5 card with information about the account. I wanted to verify that I started with a 15Mb account and that they later added an additional  10Mb.

I couldn't find where I should click to view my storage. After stumbling around for ten or fifteen minutes I spotted the information. It's probably no surprise, to people who know me, that after I confirmed what was on the 3x5 card I still wasn't able to find my way back to the storage information to look at it a second time.

As I went through the relearning process I noticed that there was no bookmark to OneDrive visible on my computer.

I use a program called, igHome as my computer start page. At the top of the display there is a black toolbar where I can store twelve links. I was using eleven for links to: Gmail, Facebook; Box, etc. I copied the link to OneDrive and pasted it to the toolbar.

My new link takes me to the OneDrive sign-on screen.  After I enter my user name and password the link displays the first page of my OneDrive account. On the left sidebar, near the bottom of the page, is a line of text that displays how much storage I have and how much is in use.

I also noticed that there is a supposedly easy way to use OneDrive for backup. If I every knew how to do this I have forgotten. That's another possible new year project.

Dick Henthorn
7 Jan 2018

Family Heirlooms

Are you keeping a lot of family heirlooms in order to pass them on to your descendants? How do you and your potential heirs feel about these things?
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 39)
3 February 2014

Wanting Things

Are you still wanting things that will be forgotten when they go out of style?  (Steve Case, Everything Counts, 12 November) 17 November 2011

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Yesterday Cyndi and I went to Bethesda to visit her storage bin.  We dropped off her bike and a box of items and picked up some winter shoes and clothing.

As part of my project to remove clutter from the house we stopped at the thrift store to make a donation. We dropped off twelve cartons of VCR and cassette tapes I'd recorded over time.  I considered about putting the boxes in Cyndi's storage.  When I came to grips with the fact that this would just put those boxes "out of sight and out of mind" I realized it was time to eliminate those boxes from our lives.

Cyndi and I ate lunch at La Madeleline on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda.  This was the first time I'd been to this place.  The Washington, DC restaurant used to supply food for WAMU-FM during the fund raising campaigns.  Two of Cyndi's girl friends arrived after we finished eating.  I moved next door to the Caribou coffee shop where I ate a couple of chocolate cookies while I read a book about Google Chrome in have checked out of the library.

In the evening I watched the two and a half hour Wednesday night, streaming video show from the Loveless Cafe in Nashville, TN on Music City Roots.  The show was a tribute to Tom T. Hall.  His wife, Dixie, was also there.  The hosts were Eric Brace and Peter Cooper.  There were many other performers on the stage.  I didn't catch the names of all of them.  The ones I wrote down were: Buddy Miller, Gary Bennett, Lloyd Green, Matraca Berg, Duane Eddy, Tommy Womack, Fayssoux Starling McLean (married at one time to John Starling of the Bluegrass band, Seldom Scene).  One song that made me laugh was, "Ain't He A Big Pig?"  Tom T. sang several songs at the end of the program.  He did a great job on "Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine."  This time I was able to post a clickable link to the performance on my Facebook wall.  I wonder if any of my Facebook friends took advantage of it.  During the show I kept thinking about how much more interesting this program is than the Grand Ole Opry shows.

Mr. Dickie

17 November 2011