How To Upgrade OneDrive for Windows Phone

By Stephen Pate – Microsoft is rolling out a Windows Phone 7.5 to 8.1 update to OneDrive for Windows Phone.

For Windows Phone users, it adds a few useful if minor features like-

• The ability to download files to your phone and pick where to save them;
• A new progress page for uploading and downloading;
• Improvements to picking contacts when you share files;
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

It really does not matter how much local storage the phone has with OneDrive.

For example, I store my complete music library of more than 300MB on OneDrive and play whatever I want, wherever I  am.  Other than data fees if I use the carrier and not Wi-Fi, that saves me Microsoft’s annual fee for Xbox music.

OneDrive connects Windows Phone users to their cloud-based OneDrive story allowing you to:

• Browse all your OneDrive files and files shared with you
• Upload multiple photos, videos and files at once
• Share files by inviting people, getting a link to copy and paste, or posting to your social networks
• Move, delete, and rename files, and create new folders
• Quickly get to documents you’ve recently opened
• Pin folders to your Start screen
• Share files to OneDrive from other apps
• Sort files and folders
• Open files from OneDrive in other apps

Once your phone is updated to Windows 8.1, download OneDrive 4.2 from the store.

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By Stephen Pate, NJN Network