
- #HOW TO ENABLE ONEDRIVE FILES ON DEMAND HOW TO#
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#HOW TO ENABLE ONEDRIVE FILES ON DEMAND UPDATE#
If you are unable to find this settings in your OneDrive Settings, even after upgrading to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, you may have to update your OneDrive Client. Here's a screenshot of the same, for your reference: Now you will be able to sync your OneDrive files on-demand.
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In the Settings tab, find a section called Files On-Demand with a checkbox Save space and download files as you use them. To do so, right-click on the OneDrive icon, present at the SysTray and navigate to its Settings. If you could not see this feature, you will have to turn it ON manually. However, your online files will always be visible in the File Explorer even if you are offline. These files do not download to your device until you open it and hence it does not open if you are not connected to the internet. You see an empty cloud icon for each online-only files in the File Explorer.
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Just right-click the file and select ' Free up space'. If you need more space, you can change the file back to online-only. You can open these sets of files anytime, even without Internet access, as they are available as your local resource.


Once the OneDrive client gets updated, you will see the following app menu that asks you whether to turn ON the 'Files on demand' feature. If you have already upgraded to Fall Creators Update, you have already started experiencing this by having placeholders for your files.

#HOW TO ENABLE ONEDRIVE FILES ON DEMAND HOW TO#
In case, you are not able to find this feature after upgrading to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, here's how to enable it.Īlong with Windows 10 Insiders Preview Build 16215, Microsoft introduced Files-on-Demand feature of OneDrive, targeting Fall Creators Update. Once you enable the feature, you can now access all your files in the cloud without having to download them and eating the extra storage space on your device. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update brought a most wanted feature on OneDrive, called "Files on Demand".
