Windows 10: OneDrive Placeholders To Return With Redstone

Discus and support OneDrive Placeholders To Return With Redstone in Windows 10 News to solve the problem; A long time ago, in an OS far, far away, ok not that far away but with Window 8.1, Microsoft had a feature for OneDrive called placeholders. This... Discussion in 'Windows 10 News' started by Brink, Dec 18, 2015.

  1. Brink
    Brink New Member

    OneDrive Placeholders To Return With Redstone


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    Brink, Dec 18, 2015
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  2. MICHAELRZ
    MichaelRZ Win User

    No OneDrive placeholders on WIn 10?

    No OneDrive placeholders on WIn 10?
     
    MichaelRZ, Dec 18, 2015
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  3. TREVN
    TrevN Win User
    Many File Thumnails Will not Display on Windows 10 but some will

    I use OneDrive and just did a test. I have thousands of images and most of them only show the image placeholder in my OneDrive folder. This only started happening recently.

    I copied a folder of around 300 images from my OneDrive folder in File Manager, where only the placeholders were visible, to another folder outside OneDrive and, hey presto, all the thumbnails reappeared.

    So it looks like Microsoft need to take a look at the interaction between OneDrive and File Manager.
     
    TrevN, Dec 18, 2015
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  4. FDEGROVE
    fdegrove Win User

    OneDrive Placeholders To Return With Redstone

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot for this.
    I never saw the point in using cloud services and then having the same content stored locally as well.

    Best, *Wink
     
    fdegrove, Dec 18, 2015
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  5. MRGEEK
    mrgeek Win User
    This is GREAT news ! Disabling placeholders defeated the main purpose of offline storage.
     
    mrgeek, Dec 18, 2015
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  6. PAULSALTER
    paulsalter Win User
    This is great news

    Looking forward to this update, thanks for the info
     
    paulsalter, Dec 18, 2015
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  7. REDDICE
    reddice Win User
    I hope this does not OneDrive to crash all the time like it did in windows 8. Too me I got plenty of internal space so placeholders are useless just hope I can disable it because it caused crashes all the time.
     
    reddice, Dec 22, 2015
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  8. CEREBERUS
    cereberus Win User

    OneDrive Placeholders To Return With Redstone

    There is a workaround you can use (not as effective but does help on a tablet with limited storage). You do not get the metadata eg thumbnails of photos etc.

    1) Open your web browser and sign-in to your OneDrive account, navigate to Files, and access any of the folders.

    2) Next, you'll need your unique CID ID from the address bar link, which looks something like this:

    OneDrive
    (numbers are different of course).

    The ID is what comes after ?cid=. From my example, the cid is A12B1234567FD1D2

    3) In Folder enter this URL: Sign in to your Microsoft account and append the CID ID. The URL should now look like this:

    Sign in to your Microsoft account

    4) Check the Reconnect at sign-in and Connect using Onedrive credential

    5) Click Finish and enter your OneDrive credentials (your Onedrive MS Account details.

    You can now access files from the mapped netork drive in same way placeholders used to work, without any syncing needed.
     
    cereberus, Dec 25, 2015
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  9. JOHN035
    John035 Win User
    I would to love to have this back , it's bothered me couple of times since I upgraded it to 10.
     
    John035, Apr 4, 2018
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