Your account will function normally for 90 days, to give you plenty of time to download any data that you don’t already have backed up.Ģ. However, when it happens, users who are over quota will be notified by email that they have one year to download their data. Hundreds of millions of OneDrive accounts are involved, so it will take weeks to roll out the new system. (Office 365 includes Microsoft Office software as well.) Alternatively, you could buy 50GB of OneDrive storage for $1.99 a month. This normally costs £59.99 a year, and is good value if you need that much storage. People who were actually using more than 5GB of storage – which is a very small minority – should also have had an email offering a free one-year subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Personal, which includes 1TB of storage. I can only assume you missed the offer, which closed on January 31. It was quick and easy, so I can’t imagine why anybody wouldn’t do it.

To keep your storage, you had to click a link in a Microsoft email, then click a button to take up the offer.

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