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of the popular free program Dropbox, then you’re very wise. Figure 3-15

shows the idea.

Figure 3-15. People don’t make nearly enough fuss about OneDrive. There it is, happily offering
convenient internet-based storage or backup for 5 gigabytes of your stuff—no charge. It behaves
exactly like any other folder or disk; OneDrive is very humble about its magic.

This is an incredibly useful feature. No more emailing files to yourself. No

more carrying things around on a flash drive. After working on some
document at the office, you can go home and resume from right where you
stopped; the same file is waiting for you, exactly as you left it.

OneDrive also makes a gloriously simple, effective backup disk. Anything
you drag into this “folder” is instantly copied to all your devices and
computers. And, as you know, the more copies that exist of something (and

in the more locations), the better your backup. Even if your main PC is
stolen or burned to dust, your OneDrive files are safe.

OneDrive is also a handy intermediary for sharing big files with other

people far away. And it’s a handy way to offload files from a computer that