#BEST ONLINE BACKUP FOR MAC 2016 INSTALL#

If you have an educational managed AppleID (assigned to you by your educational organization), then you will need to obtain a separate personal AppleID account in order to use it on your Windows machine.

#BEST ONLINE BACKUP FOR MAC 2016 INSTALL#

David Strom/CNN UnderscoredĪpple recommends Windows 10 for all iCloud features but you can install the software on earlier versions. There are also referral bonuses that can add more storage and annual payment discounts.Īpple's iCloud web view shows how much storage you have consumed with your various applications, what devices are sharing your storage repository and other paid features such as Hide My Email and custom email domains that you can set up. Or you can buy one of the Microsoft 365 plans starting at $6.99 per month, billed monthly, that will boost your storage to 1TB (for the Personal plan, as tested) or to 6TB for up to 6 people (for the Family plan). You can increase this storage to 100GB for $1.99 per month, billed monthly, via the OneDrive Standalone plan. OneDrive offers a free plan with 5GB of storage, and it also retains up to 30 days of prior file version history. A simple fix was to obtain this software from the Microsoft App Store. Microsoft OneDrive was easier for us to install on Macs than some of our Windows PCs that had additional browser-based security that blocked the desktop client downloads. Microsoft OneDrive shows you a nice graphical representation of your files, and in our case, shows that we have reached the limit of our free account's capacity.

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