{"id":51525,"date":"2026-02-20T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=51525"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:41:27","slug":"student-computer-use-microsoft-account-a-way-to-check-your-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/student-computer-use-microsoft-account-a-way-to-check-your-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Student computer use: Microsoft account: a way to check your cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Microsoft accounts: the tutor mentions a way to check one&#8217;s cloud storage.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nI recall a year ago I was getting warnings from Microsoft that I was running out of storage: I either had to upgrade or else my storage would soon be full. They were right: my storage was near full, because I had a few projects on the go and wasn&#8217;t managing my cloud storage very carefully.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs it turned out, I saved a bunch of the files to physical drives, so I could remove them from the cloud. Throughout that process, though, I needed to check the online storage of my Microsoft account, so I could see how much I needed to download and remove from the cloud versus what made sense to keep up there.<\/p>\n<p>\nI found a way to check storage from within the account, but it seems there&#8217;s a much simpler way: on the PC you&#8217;re using, click the Windows icon (the same one you would to restart, etc), then click your user name, which seems to appear at the bottom of the panel that opens up. When I do that, my cloud storage shows up as a fraction: 3.5GB\/5GB used.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Microsoft accounts: the tutor mentions a way to check one&#8217;s cloud storage. The following is according to my understanding. I recall a year ago I was getting warnings from Microsoft that I was running out of storage: I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/student-computer-use-microsoft-account-a-way-to-check-your-cloud-storage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Student computer use: Microsoft account: a way to check your cloud storage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3062],"tags":[4072],"class_list":["post-51525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-computer-use","tag-how-to-check-storage-of-microsoft-account"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51531,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51525\/revisions\/51531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}