Windows 10: Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand and other features

Brink · May 10, 2017

As people create and collaborate on more files, take more photos and work across multiple devices, it’s increasingly important to access your important content, both from your work and personal life—all in one place. You shouldn’t have to worry about whether there is enough storage on your device or if you can access your files on an airplane.Today, we are excited to share a set of new features that will allow you to see and access all your files on Windows 10, be more productive offline on your mobile devices and quickly share files on iOS.

OneDrive Files On-Demand—access all your files without using up your device storage

At Microsoft Build 2017, Joe Belfiore announced that the new OneDrive Files On-Demand feature will be delivered with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. With Files On-Demand, you can access all your files in the cloud without having to download them and use storage space on your device. You don’t have to change the way you work, because all your files—even online files—can be seen in File Explorer and work just like every other file on your device.

Files On-Demand also allows you to open online files from within desktop or Windows store apps using the Windows file picker. Simply select the file you want to open in the file picker, and the file will automatically download and open in your app. Furthermore, you’re covered in both your home and professional life since it works with your personal and work OneDrive, as well as your SharePoint Online team sites.

This has been the #1 requested feature for OneDrive on UserVoice, and we’re excited to deliver it in a simple and powerful new way.

You can see that the folder selected in the SharePoint Online team site contains 1.37 TB of content but takes 0 bytes of storage on the disk.

New status icons in File Explorer make it easy to know whether your files are locally available or online files. For files that you need to access when you don’t have an internet connection, you can easily make files or folders always available by right-clicking and selecting Always keep on this device.

Right-click and select Always keep on this device to make files and folders accessible when you do not have an internet connection.

Online files will automatically download and become locally available when you need them. Simply double-click a file in File Explorer or open it from within an app. Your online files will always be visible even if you are offline. Now you won’t have to make tough decisions about which files to sync to your PC.

Double-click an online file and it will automatically download and open.

In addition to users, Files On-Demand benefits organizations and IT admins. Today, when someone syncs a SharePoint Online team site, files are re-downloaded on all synced devices when anyone makes a change. Files On-Demand will reduce network bandwidth by eliminating the need to continuously sync shared files on every synced device as teams collaborate.

Files On-Demand is coming to Windows Insider Preview early this summer and will be publicly available with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Tune in to the SharePoint Virtual Summit on May 16, 2017 to learn more about Files On-Demand and how to create a connected workplace in Office 365 with OneDrive and SharePoint.

OneDrive Offline Folders—save entire folders for offline access on Android and iOS

In addition to Files On-Demand, we want to share a new feature with you to help you stay productive on your mobile device when you don’t have an internet connection, like on those long flights or weekends up at the cabin. OneDrive Offline Folders lets you save folders to your mobile device and open them when you don’t have an internet connection. Changes made by other users to the files while you’re offline will automatically be updated when you have an internet connection again. This new feature is now available on Android devices to Office 365 Personal and Home subscribers and OneDrive business accounts. We expect to roll it out to iOS in the next few months.

Select a folder and click the Parachute icon to make a folder and its contents available offline.

OneDrive for iMessage—quickly share OneDrive files on iOS devices

With OneDrive for iMessage, we made it even easier to share files on your iOS devices by allowing you to quickly share documents and photos with friends and family without leaving your iMessage conversation. Choose to share an entire folder or only a file and instantly preview documents and photos shared with you in iMessage. Update to the latest version of OneDrive and enable OneDrive for iMessage on your device to try today.

Open OneDrive in iMessage and click a file to share it in your conversation.

Let us know what you think. Please share your thoughts and ideas through the Microsoft Technical Community and UserVoice. There’s so much more to come with OneDrive!

—Jeff Teper
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Ugo Lopez · May 10, 2017

LAN fails after Win10 update

You can setup auto sync with cloud products. With OneDrive and Google drive, you have the option to leave your files on the cloud and seamless download them only when needed (transparent from user perspective, he/she will continue seeing all the files
in the folder):

ONEDRIVE CLIENT AND FILES ON-DEMAND OPTION

Benvenuto in Microsoft OneDrive

https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/05/11/intro...

GOOGLE DRIVE FILE STREAM

Deploy Drive File Stream - G Suite Administrator Help

Regarding SMB, please just change the GO options as in the links above.

Please let me know.

LarryGorden · May 10, 2017

Can't preview jpg files in the preview pane -- Windows 10 Fall Update (1709)

My problem is not related to file association, I've tried changing file association to multiple programs, including MS Paint. To clarify, my problem is with jpg files not displaying in the File Explorer preview pane
and has nothing to do with file icons.

I've discovered the problem is related to the new 1709 update feature "OneDrive Files On-Demand". The problem with jpg files not displaying in the File Explorer preview pane only occurs for files that are on OneDrive with "Files On-Demand"
enabled. I have some files & folders specified as "Always Keep on this device" and I expect files to be displayed in preview -- and they are except for jpg files. Other file types (pdf, txt, docx, xlsx, etc.) preview without issue. jpg files on disk only
and not on OneDrive ARE displayed in preview, the problem is only for jpg files on OneDrive, even though "Always keep on this device" is enabled.

If "Files On-Demand" is enabled and "Always keep on this device" is not enabled (files are in the cloud only) then no files are previewed (makes sense).

I have another computer that was just updated to 1709. The "Files on demand" feature has not been enabled so all OneDrive files are on disk. It displays jpg files on OneDrive in preview without issue.

To summarize my problem as I see it... jpg files on OneDrive are not displayed in File Explorer preview if and only if "Files On-Demand" is enabled, even though those files are kept on disk.

Unkn0wn · May 10, 2017

Looks interesting, looking forward to it!

Windows 10: Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand and other features

Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand and other features

Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand and other features

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