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Out of curiosity, what happens if you office subscription ends? Obviously you won't be able to sync but does onedrive have some sort of grace period to let you

Out of curiosity, what happens if you office subscription ends? Obviously you won't be able to sync but does onedrive have some sort of grace period to let you download your stuff and at what point would it go and completely delete your data?

godzillabrennus 8y ago
Office stops working if your subscription ends so most likely they will renew their subscription.
thesephist 8y ago
I believe the modus operandi for most personal cloud storage providers here is to make the entire dataset read- and delete-only until the user gets enough storage space (by upgrading or deleting files) to be able to write/upload again. That, plus some incessant push messages to your client devices about upgrading, which is annoying but expected.
fencepost 8y ago
If it's the business version, you have full access for 30 days, admins have access for 90 days, then it's deprovisioned (source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-happens-to-my-data-and-access-when-my-Office-365-for-business-subscription-ends-4436582f-211a-45ec-b72e-33647f97d8a3 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-happens-to-my-...) On the O365 Personal/Home or direct OneDrive plans, it looks like your data remains available but read-only for 3 months, then your account is "frozen." You can do a one-time 30-day "unfreeze" to get access to download/delete (to get under your quota), then it gets "frozen" again. Eventually it'll be deleted, but I don't see documentation for how long that takes. (source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-does-it-mean-when-your-onedrive-account-is-frozen-5e76147b-b7d5-4bcb-ba28-b91e3eb636b6 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-does-it-mean-w... linked from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneDrive-storage-plan-and-billing-questions-989fce19-ade6-4e2f-81fb-941eabefee28 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneDrive-storage-pl...)

godzillabrennus 8y ago

Office stops working if your subscription ends so most likely they will renew their subscription.

thesephist 8y ago

I believe the modus operandi for most personal cloud storage providers here is to make the entire dataset read- and delete-only until the user gets enough storage space (by upgrading or deleting files) to be able to write/upload again. That, plus some incessant push messages to your client devices about upgrading, which is annoying but expected.

fencepost 8y ago

If it's the business version, you have full access for 30 days, admins have access for 90 days, then it's deprovisioned (source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-happens-to-my-data-and-access-when-my-Office-365-for-business-subscription-ends-4436582f-211a-45ec-b72e-33647f97d8a3 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-happens-to-my-...) On the O365 Personal/Home or direct OneDrive plans, it looks like your data remains available but read-only for 3 months, then your account is "frozen." You can do a one-time 30-day "unfreeze" to get access to download/delete (to get under your quota), then it gets "frozen" again. Eventually it'll be deleted, but I don't see documentation for how long that takes. (source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-does-it-mean-when-your-onedrive-account-is-frozen-5e76147b-b7d5-4bcb-ba28-b91e3eb636b6 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-does-it-mean-w... linked from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneDrive-storage-plan-and-billing-questions-989fce19-ade6-4e2f-81fb-941eabefee28 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneDrive-storage-pl...)