Hi, thanks for this tutorial! What happens when I decide to have a file or folder as "Always keep files available" and I'm not connected to the internet and I don't have a Microsoft Office 365 license to work locally? Can I still make changes to the file or not? As far as I know, Onedrive includes Office apps, but I think is for online work only. Could you please answer all this? Thanks in advance!
Hey Alro, assuming these are cloud files we're talking about... I believe in this case you are making files available as hard copies on your desktop which are accessible to work on even without a connection, but you shouldn't count on any cloud areas seeing those changes until your machine has re-established that connection. I hope this clears the air!
You can use OneDrive sync for any folder and library in SharePoint. However, they will not be integrated into standard Windows folders like Desktop, Documents etc.
Thank you. How long can the overall sync take? I recently updated from windows 10 to 11... and onedrive has been synching by default basically everything (documents, pictures, video, music...)... and it's still working on it since 3 days now... 🤯. Is that pretty common or something is definitely wrong on my system?
The length of time will depend on how much it is trying to sync. I would check out what files are currently being synced using the OneDrive icon in your System Tray.
My notability app is synced with OneDrive. My computer is saying I am out of OneDrive space for my notability app and I can no longer save word documents. Can you help me figure out how to remedy this? Thank you!
How do I allow syncing android Samsung gallery to one drive but when I then delete photos from my phone I get a warning that they will be deleted from my one drive? It didn't use to do this but had lately...Google and tried to delete from "my files" from phone but for the same warning msg... thank you!
Not sure, sorry! Generally OneDrive is a "two-way" sync process where it both sends and receives changes from the device, keeping everything in "sync", and exactly the same everywhere. There may be a way to make a device "send-only", but I'm not sure if that capability exists, sorry! Also sorry for the late response here.
I believe that whichever user syncs their changes to the file first create a new major version of the file. When the second users' changes are synced after this it again creates another major version. If both changes don't overlap in the file, then you would have updates from both users.
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Very informative and easy to follow. Thanks for your post.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi, thanks for this tutorial!
What happens when I decide to have a file or folder as "Always keep files available" and I'm not connected to the internet and I don't have a Microsoft Office 365 license to work locally? Can I still make changes to the file or not? As far as I know, Onedrive includes Office apps, but I think is for online work only. Could you please answer all this?
Thanks in advance!
Hey Alro, assuming these are cloud files we're talking about... I believe in this case you are making files available as hard copies on your desktop which are accessible to work on even without a connection, but you shouldn't count on any cloud areas seeing those changes until your machine has re-established that connection. I hope this clears the air!
Can you sync other folders besides the standard defaults?
You can use OneDrive sync for any folder and library in SharePoint. However, they will not be integrated into standard Windows folders like Desktop, Documents etc.
Thank you. How long can the overall sync take? I recently updated from windows 10 to 11... and onedrive has been synching by default basically everything (documents, pictures, video, music...)... and it's still working on it since 3 days now... 🤯. Is that pretty common or something is definitely wrong on my system?
The length of time will depend on how much it is trying to sync. I would check out what files are currently being synced using the OneDrive icon in your System Tray.
My notability app is synced with OneDrive. My computer is saying I am out of OneDrive space for my notability app and I can no longer save word documents. Can you help me figure out how to remedy this? Thank you!
We don't have experience with Notability, so not sure we can help, sorry!
In folder X1 in File Explorer, can you create a shared subfolder named X that syncs with a folder also named X in my employer’s SharePoint?
There are ways to add shortcuts to an SP folder in OneDrive, but in general, you need to choose to either sync to OneDrive or SharePoint.
How do I allow syncing android Samsung gallery to one drive but when I then delete photos from my phone I get a warning that they will be deleted from my one drive? It didn't use to do this but had lately...Google and tried to delete from "my files" from phone but for the same warning msg... thank you!
Not sure, sorry! Generally OneDrive is a "two-way" sync process where it both sends and receives changes from the device, keeping everything in "sync", and exactly the same everywhere. There may be a way to make a device "send-only", but I'm not sure if that capability exists, sorry! Also sorry for the late response here.
What hapoens if 2 people are working offline on the same file? When they both synch qhat happens? Is a diolicate copy crrated?
I believe that whichever user syncs their changes to the file first create a new major version of the file. When the second users' changes are synced after this it again creates another major version.
If both changes don't overlap in the file, then you would have updates from both users.
Very informative. The background "music" needs to be LOWER so its not competing with his talking. It was too loud and distracting.
Thanks for the feedback! We’ve changed our approach to music tracks since this video posted.
too fast!! I'm still lost
Sorry to hear that -- We always write up our video scripts into a blog if that's more helpful! www.bulb.digital/blog/syncing-in-a-cinch-with-onedrive
I agree. You talk and move so fast that this video is useless in showing what someone should actually do to synch a folder.
7:40 OneDrive synching is not totally perfect!
Louder for the people in the back! 😅😅😅
Goes too fast. This is more of a demo of OneDrive instead of a tutorial
Thanks for the feedback, MontyBird
"Easy way" in a 11 minute video. LOL
I know, right? Imagine if we had gone on for 12 minutes!