OneDrive/Windows 7 Question

Posted by Ken
Jan 8, 2018 at 12:08 AM

A question for those of you who have machines running Windows 7 and use OneDrive for file storage as I am looking at a new set-up that will now involve a desktop and a laptop. I know that I can use a we-based application for task management, and am giving that consideration, but I also wanted to explore options that are not web-based applications (i.e. My Life Organized, InfoQube, Hyper Plan, etc.). My employer offers OneDrive, but without any file sync option to our machines. Does anybody know if there is a way to have non-Microsoft products (like the ones that I mentioned above) access files that are stored in OneDrive? For example, can I have one of the above programs “installed” (as portable software) on both machines, but share the data file between them on OneDrive? I have to confess a bit of ignorance to OneDrive as I just have not used it much over the past few years as we still have traditional file servers on-site in addition to OneDrive. Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated as if I can find a way to share the data file, then I have more choices for task management software shared between my machines.

Thanks,

—Ken

P.S. Dropbox and Box are not supported options by my employer and are discouraged from use, and non-standard issue software ( mostly Microsoft) is generally not installed on machines, so these are not available options.