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I'm technically useless, but I wanted to copy all my photos from our external hard drive onto SkyDrive just incase something happened to the hard drive. I didn't want to store them on the computer as there are so many of them (35,000). When you do this, does SkyDrive also put them in a folder on the computer, and can you remove this and just use their storage? Apologies if this doesn't make any sense.
You can do either.
If you go to the skydrive web-page and upload them from there they won't be stored anywhere on the local computer apart from where you uploaded them from.
If you download the skydrive application it will create a local skydrive folder under your user directory. You can then copy the photos here and it will sync them in batches.
I prefer the second method as you get more control on folder structure etc. However if you do it this way it is best not to keep the originals in your local skydrive folder incase you cock something up when online e.g. delete a folder and then the delete gets synced down to your PC.
Thanks BigEaredBiker.
Perfectly explained.
Keep a copy on your local computer whatever you do.
Cloud storage is great to back work up and to be able to access files, photos, documents etc from any computer but should not be used for your primary / only storage method. If it goes for whatever reason and you've not got a local copy you are stuffed - you need to stay completely in control of the main copy of anything remotely important.