me too, if they get hacked your sunk
could do with some advice about how to stop onedrive linking to my Samsung smart phone
Just turn it off in settings parametres
Alternatively, of you want it to replicate some but not all of your data you can select which folders in Onedrive settings too.
I have a Office 365 family subscription so I have 1TB of onedrive cloud space (my wife and daughter have 1TB each too). I have about 500GB of photos, home movies etc. up there which I can access from any device but only my Documents folder is replicated to my laptops and desktop. I use Word, or Excel to pull down documents (such as my “This is your Life” spreadsheet) on my iPad and phone as needed. I use iCloud for all photo sharing through the Mac/iOS photos App. Likewise iCloud takes care of music, audiobooks (in conjunction with the rather shoddy Audible App), etc. etc.
It’s all very well organised, I always was tidy but I guess I’m verging on OCD in my dotage.
Our home-grown application is based on an encrypted database hosted on one of our own servers that would be hell for anyone to crack. I don’t put any data in the cloud - don’t trust it - and SF is pretty well the only social media-type site I use. Would James and Cat be horrified to here SF referred to in that way? 
My problem is that I have Samsung Smart phone and also use Onedrive so that I can access folders from two lap tops and MS surface Pro4 tablet.
Onedrive is behind my microsoft password protected account but when I load Excel or Word on my phone, which is easy via app store, and then open either app it seems to pull down excel and word docs even though the onedrive is password protected.
Onedrive is a default app and cannot be removed, and Word and Excel are easily downloaded apps. I have my phone password locked but still feel unhappy that somebody could break the code and then have access to personal stuff in the cloud,
Ideally would like my phone to have no link or access or show any item in my onedrive…any suggestions.?
I suppose my solution of not having a smartphone isn’t acceptable? No, I thought not 
Would be nice but honestly don’t know how i would manage with so much stuff requiring online response particularly gov and utilities, saves having to have specific time set aside logging on to pc…and this is the only SM site I subscribe to.
I use a laptop or PC, log on in the mornings, check emails, French news, SF, do any utility or other connection stuff I need, leave it on for most of the day and go off to do stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with computers or the internet. I’ve spent far too long working with computers during my life and I don’t want to “waste” what’s left of it online 
To be honest, I have so far (and of course this could change) never found I needed a smartphone for anything and I don’t like the way they track people… Just call me paranoid! 
don’t “normal” mobiles do that too as they connect with cells? Even the so called “burner” phones favoured by criminals do that IIRC.
Fact is, smartphones can be extremely useful and basically you have nothing to fear from them if you live a “legal” lifestyle.
My understanding is that “normal” (or “pour seniors” as I’ve seen them described 
) phones don’t track what I do - they may track location but I am not sure about that and anyway, it’s usually switched off
I don’t actually buy the “nothing to fear” argument as I’m not remotely bothered about the government knowing where I go (or even to some extent what I do) but commercial companies are a very different matter and are not subject to quite the same levels of scrutiny, I think.
Anyway, whether or not they track me - I don’t need one! (yet…)
I need mine at work - too frequently the network is too slow or down and like my colleagues I have to use my own means for very simple essential (and compulsory) stuff like doing the register. 
Makes sense, Vero! Of course as a (rather reluctant) retiree, I don’t really have to have immediate responses to anything…
I like smart phone mainly because you can pick up mails and use the web…note not SM sites excepting SF ( !) without being tied to a terminal/ vdu or lap top and desk.
Well, in the interests of science I have don the deed and can report back that the transfer from LP to BW was as smooth and uncomplicated as the links above suggest.
The whole process took minutes to achieve on both my PC and my Android phone. Logged out of LP now so only BW operating. I’ll remove the LP app in due course when finally satisfied all is well but for the moment - all seems tickety-boo 
ooops