![]() ![]() But just to be sure, I actually downloaded the app directly from Microsoft. I had the version that came from the Mac App Store. To activate the On-Demand, you obviously need to have the latest and greatest version of Microsoft OneDrive. It is slightly different and equally nice to the space on your hard drive. In either case, you get a listing of all of your OneDrive folders, and then you can pick and choose the ones you want to have locally stored (and synced as well).īut now there is another fancy way to do a quite similar process – On-Demand. Or you can right (or control) click within the OneDrive folder on your Mac (or PC) and select “Choose OneDrive folders to sync.” So, I started using Selective Sync on OneDrive. And that isn’t a good thing.Ħ/21/21 Update: If you are also using Microsoft OneDrive AND Time Machine, you will want to see my How To/Fix It article – they don’t always play nicely together!Īs my process I described above is very time-based, meaning, once I publish a video or article, I really didn’t have a need to always have my photos or videos available on each and every device. It’s a very simple use case, but it works.īut, over time, you can imagine that my hard drive folder started to become quite filled up with large video and photo files. OneDrive keeps the latest version of those images synced continuously. Then later on one computer, I access those images and do any necessary editing, and then later access those images from another computer. I take photos on my iPhone, upload it directly to a folder on my OneDrive iOS app. My workflow for blogging, for example, relies on OneDrive for images. ![]() You can then access those files via a web browser, or using smartphone or operating system apps directly on your device. You upload files to OneDrive (either via a local file sync or directly via a web browser), and instantly, your data is stored in the Microsoft cloud. And, when you couple the new On-Demand feature with the already existing selective sync feature, you have a pretty powerful combination of on- and off-line capabilities that can definitely add some space to your precious hard drive.Īs you probably know, Microsoft OneDrive is one of the many available file and folder syncing services available (like Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive, etc.). For me, and probably others who rapidly run out of hard drive space over time, this is a big deal! In essence, it’s using one of the core attributes of cloud computing, that of expanding or contracting storage on-demand, to basically make your hard drive larger than it actually is. A few weeks ago, Microsoft released an update for the Mac version of OneDrive that included their new On-Demand service. ![]()
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