The second day of
Microsoft Build 2017 has been dedicated to surprising announcements. Microsoft has introduced OneDrive Files On-Demand.
It has been two years since the company disappointed users by ditching the placeholder files in Windows 10. Now, with this announcement, the company has again delighted users as this on-demand feature lets OneDrive pick out data from the cloud, and that is without syncing all files and folders.
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Microsoft says that it is planning to implement new status icons for locally available files and for files on the cloud, in file explorer. Also, OneDrive Files On-Demand are only downloaded when a user needs them, thus decreasing the system space needed by these files. This simply expands the capability of OneDrive.