How do I increase time before the 20 minute lockout in personal vault for onedrive

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2019-09-16T14:40:19+00:00

How do I increase time before the 20 minute lockout in personal vault for onedrive

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-21T23:37:54+00:00

    It doesn't work, no matter if you set it to 4 hours or any other setting it always says your vault will lock after 20 minutes and it sure does.

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  2. Craig Long 18,640 Reputation points
    2020-02-14T12:28:14+00:00

    Hi All

    Having not used Personal Vault since September 2019 I thought I might give it another try.

    I enabled it in settings online and then went into settings in the OneDrive icon on my desktop.

    Surprise surprise those wonderfully nice people at Microsoft have now given us the option of between 20 minutes and up to Four hours of inactivity before having to reactivate. Hooray! 

    GR

    How nice.  I may decide to use it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-09-17T07:57:46+00:00

    Garinas,

    Do you need more help regarding this?

    YES

    Tell Microsoft to give uses the option of increasing the time allowed temporarily whilst I am uploading 200GB of Data!

    Doesn't the Personal Vault stay open as long as Windows thinks there is activity going on? 

    I use a program called "Free Mouse Auto Clicker" to make Windows think I am still active in a window.  I let it run all night if need be.

    Whilst the 200GB is being uploaded to the vault and the computer is being used on other tasks OneDrive issues a notification "Still using your personal vault?" every 15 minutes saying that the vault will be locked in 5 minutes if you do not say yes to continue.

    Will "Free Mouse Auto Clicker" click the continue button?

    Has anybody uploaded 200GB of Data to OneDrive and then moved that to the Vault?

    I Presume the 20 minute vault open condition still applies?

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  4. Craig Long 18,640 Reputation points
    2019-09-17T07:29:07+00:00

    Garinas,

    Do you need more help regarding this?

    YES

    Tell Microsoft to give uses the option of increasing the time allowed temporarily whilst I am uploading 200GB of Data!

    Doesn't the Personal Vault stay open as long as Windows thinks there is activity going on? 

    I use a program called "Free Mouse Auto Clicker" to make Windows think I am still active in a window.  It makes a mouse click at any time interval I select.  I let it run all night if need be.

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  5. SD - IA 180.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-09-16T14:44:55+00:00

    Hi Garinas,

    I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 2-Year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

    Sorry, but you cannot increase the time for vault as this is by design.

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/protec...

    Personal Vault automatically locks after a period of inactivity (20 minutes on the web, 3 minutes on a mobile app) and then you need to unlock it to get at your files again. All your documents, photos, and videos in Personal Vault are easy to access from onedrive.com, your PC, or other capable devices.

    As we are just volunteers here trying to help, you may add a Feedback in Onedrive uservoice:

    Feature Suggestions for Microsoft OneDrive

    https://onedrive.uservoice.com

    Hope that helps.

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