Windows 10: OneDrive: Keep all files and directories available in explorer, but do not SYNC with computer

Hello,I have an issue with onedrive. I would like to see my ondrive as an external harddrive and sync as little as possible to my computer since it is a laptop without a 1 TB harddrive. I found out that i can limit the directories that i want to sync to my computer but when i do that these directories also disappear from the explorer view.Can anyone help? Is it possible?Regards

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OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync




"At Ignite 2016, Microsoft has just announced that it is bringing Placeholders back to OneDrive on Windows 10. Now, they are not called Placeholders anymore — Microsoft is renaming the feature to “On-Demand Sync” which makes a lot more sense than “Placeholders”.

The company demoed this feature at Microsoft Ignite today, and it works just like it used to previously. As you can see in the screenshot above, the files stored in OneDrive weighed in around 9GB, but the actual size on disk was only around 3MB which is really neat. Of course, this feature isn’t anything new as it was available back in the Windows 8 days. However, Microsoft removed the feature with Windows 10, and after lots of waiting, they are finally coming back.

In case you are not familiar with OneDrive Placeholders, it’s a pretty neat feature which lets you see all of your OneDrive files on your computer — but they are not actually downloaded on your PC. When you open them, OneDrive will download the files on-demand, saving your local space which is really useful, especially if you have a PC that doesn’t have a lot of storage.

While Microsoft didn’t announce when exactly On-Demand Sync will be available to OneDrive users, we suspect it will be available with Windows 10 Redstone 2 — which is expected to arrive early next year. "

OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync

 

Transferring files and documents to a new computer - onedrive issues

Hi Williams,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



It seems that you have set sync settings to sync every folder and as well as external hard drive and save only on cloud. We would suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below to avail folders (Docs) locally.

1. Install OneDrive and open
   File Explorer.
   
2. Right click on OneDrive icon on the right pane.
   
3. Then select Make available offline.
   
   
   
   You may also want to refer
   OneDrive help and go through all topics under
   Popular topics and check for settings.
   
   
   
   
   
   Hope it helps.
   
   If you find the answer useful, kindly tick your response.
   

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.