To make a file always available, even when you're offline: You can open a locally available file at anytime even without Internet access. We also use Thinfinity Remote Desktop for RDP. There is the occasional user that we will need to give an icon in the remote app to activate onedrive.
We use remote app, and do not give users access to full desktops, which helps. Starting with Server 2019 it is supported. When you open an online-only file, it downloads to your device and becomes locally available. Files on Demand is not supported on Server 2016 and older. These files are only available when you're connected to the Internet, but don't take up space on your computer. Save space on your device by making files online-only. You can now copy or move files from your computer to SharePoint in Microsoft 365 right from your file system. When Files On-Demand is on, you’ll see new status icons next to each of your SharePoint files.
Select Settings > Save space and download files as you use them. All in all, it’s one of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update’s best new features.Note: If you’re on Windows 10, your computer already has the OneDrive desktop app on it, but you'll need to turn on Files On-Demand in OneDrive settings. What makes OneDrive Files On-Demand such an attractive feature is that a typical document is only a few megabytes in capacity, and can be downloaded relatively quickly. (If there’s a file already stored on OneDrive, you’ll need to download it and then select this option.) Naturally, these options apply both to files and the folders that store them. Alternatively, you have the option to always keep on this device.
If you’d like to store that file only in the cloud, right-click the file and click Free up space. Files stored in the cloud will have a small cloud logo next to them.īy default, files that you drag into the OneDrive folder will be stored locally on your hard drive, and a synced copy will be backed up in your OneDrive cloud. Files stored locally will have a small blue circle with a check mark in the center. You may continue to do so, to ensure that those synced documents will be available while on a plane, for example, But the secret to storage-capacity bliss is in that column of icons that flows down the OneDrive file window.
I’ve tried it on two Fall Creators Update machines that failed to receive OneDrive Files On-Demand, and both times the update installed without a hitch. Installing it is extremely simple: Download the file, click it to begin the installation, and reboot when you’re finished. Although you can download the OneDrive app from the Store, the OneDrive Files On-Demand feature is also available to download from this page, or as an automatic download.
If you’re not seeing the introductory blurb or the Files On-Demand menu item, you’ll need to take action. The most important step of all: eventually, you’ll need to ensure the Files on Demand checkbox is checked.
On my machine it was not enabled by default. If it is not visible, click the arrow pointing upwards on the righthand. Ensure that the checkbox next to Save space and download files as you use them is checked to enable Files On-Demand. Go to the OneDrive icon in the taskbar, which looks like two clouds, as seen below. No, we don’t know why, either.) If you see, at the very bottom of the Settings tab, a header marked Files On-Demand, hurray! Your problem is solved. (Yes, there’s a separate Settings tab within the Settings menu. If you don’t see the fancy introduction to Files On-Demand, try clicking one tab over to the Setting s tab. To enable Files On-Demand, you’ll need to find the OneDrive icon, which hides out in your taskbar.ĭoing so will actually open another window, which will probably be open to the Account tab. Right-click it, and select Settings from the popup menu. That should bring up a small window of icons, including the small cloud icon that indicates OneDrive. (If you have a number of different processes running, try expanding the Notifications area in the lower right-hand corner of the Windows taskbar. Once that process has completed, find the tiny OneDrive icon on your taskbar. Before you can use OneDrive Files on Demand, you need Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update.