![]() ![]() I use 3 or 4 Windows PCs at any given time, and I frequently upgrade or replace my computers throughout the year, so this system has been a huge timesaver for me and has greatly simplified and streamlined my life. If you don’t have much data, or you only use one PC and you rarely switch or upgrade your computer, maybe none of this will mean much to you. This is very helpful if you are setting up a new Windows 10 PC with limited storage-like a 256GB SSD-and it’s nice to not have to eat up all of the bandwidth on your network downloading gigabytes of files. ![]() But, until you actually click on a file to access it, OneDrive just shows you a pointer to the file and keeps it stored in the cloud. The beauty of it is that you can still see all of the files listed-so it is like having them stored locally. If you check the box, it only downloads files as you use them. There is an option in OneDrive Settings for “Files On-Demand”. That means when I add, remove, or change files in a folder on one PC, those updates are automatically reflected on every other PC I use and I always have access to my current versions of everything because there is technically only one version that every PC is sharing.Īs a bonus-you don’t actually have to download all of the data. By setting all of the computers up the same way, they are all actually working off of the exact same data in OneDrive. I also find this invaluable because I use multiple computers at once depending on where I am and what I am doing. Once you point the location of the system folders to your OneDrive versions, all of your files will magically appear, and you are back in business. You won’t-or shouldn’t-need to transfer or copy data from the local drives because it is a new PC with no data on it yet. When I open a folder containing files with audio extensions (wav, mp3, etc), the columns change to something else such as artist, genre, etc. Just log in and you’re all set.īut, what about your data? Well, now that you have been using OneDrive by default, just go into the system folders on the new Windows 10 PC and follow the steps from before. In Windows explorer if I change the folder view to details, for a standard folder the columns shown are Name, Date modified, Type and Size. Windows 10 allows you to sync a variety of settings, such as language preferences, passwords, color themes, and even File Explorer settings, and notification preferences, so you don’t have to start from scratch and configure everything again. Microsoft has already streamlined much of the process from the user profile and preferences side. The real magic happens when you set up a new Windows PC. When you transfer photos of your kid’s birthday party to Pictures on your Windows PC, you are actually storing them safely and securely in the cloud in the Pictures folder in OneDrive. Voila! Now, when you view the files on your Windows desktop, you are actually seeing the files from the Desktop folder in OneDrive. ![]()
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