OneDrive Placeholders

OK so there’s some doubt about a return of placeholder files that’s been mentioned at Ignite.  Paul is suspicious, but Omar Shahine reposted tweets and commented that “you’re gonna love them”  Doesn’t explicitly say OneDrive Consumer, but seems to strongly imply it.  The sooner we get concrete information the better.  You guys at Ignite, do all the probing you can!

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  • 49

    Premium Member
    27 September, 2016 - 7:57 am

    <p>If anyone finds anything more, make sure to post it here…going to try and poke around today.</p>

  • 5536

    27 September, 2016 - 9:58 am

    <p>Apparently it’s called now "On-demand Sync" and here you have early previev snapshot from Ignite:</p>
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    <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/BLuB5iY.jpg&quot; alt="ondemandsync" width="534" height="301" /></p>

    • 1318

      Premium Member
      27 September, 2016 - 10:25 am

      <p>That snapshot looks legit.&nbsp; I know I should be cautious with all things related to Microsoft, but I’m excited that they may be&nbsp;bringing this&nbsp;great feature back.</p>

      • 5536

        27 September, 2016 - 11:39 am

        <p>If you look closer you can see that files that are not synchronized locally have little grey cloud icon instead of green checkbox.&nbsp;Looks like it still may be confusing to some people.</p>
        <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/R7FkFTg.jpg&quot; alt="" width="521" height="465" /></p>

  • 483

    27 September, 2016 - 1:42 pm

    <p>They will return, because Apple’s OSX Sierra’s Optimized Storage feature has placeholders. So Microsoft will copy them. #runsaway</p>

  • 5504

    27 September, 2016 - 6:33 pm

    <p>After Windows 8 I stopped using OneDrive to store MS Office documents – too many strange sync issues. OneDrive had trouble syncing unmodified documents, Word and Excel keep wanting to recover documents that shouldn’t need recovering etc. Ironically, these issue didn’t seem to occur for non-Office documents.</p>

  • 5569

    28 September, 2016 - 10:04 am

    <p>Would much prefer a reliable map network drive option, then we do not need any placeholders.<br />There is a way to do this, but its a bit flaky at times.<br />I use persoanl and business dropbox, google drive and onedrive.<br />I do not have 365 but have 500gb on my onedrive, that was not reduced. It was about 75% full.</p>
    <p>Got passed the placeholders stage now and just create sensible folders that I look at rarely and a working folder on all my cloud.</p>
    <p>I control all the content from my Android and IOS onedrive apps for ease. The windows app is dreadful.<br />Onedrive keeps adding video and pictures etc folders now and again to my onedrive, that annoys me.</p>

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