Learn how to use OneDrive with automatic Desktop, Documents, and Photos syncing, so your files stay updated across devices.

If your OneDrive files are opening with the label “Saved to This PC,” it means that your files aren’t syncing to the cloud properly. Your PC is opening the files as a local copy, even if they’re ...

Microsoft is planning to unify the synchronization engine used with its OneDrive cloud storage service, but that move will bring a feature change for Windows 10 users. A change in the sync engine ...

If OneDrive context menu is missing in Windows 11, re-register the OneDrive Shell extension, enable OneDrive Context menu via ...

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If you rely on Microsoft's OneDrive cloud services to sync and share files, the next year promises to be one of great change, mixed with a healthy serving of frustration. OneDrive (descended from ...

One major change in the most recent public preview of Windows 10 is drawing howls of protests from testers. At Microsoft’s UserVoice site, a “feature suggestion” logged by my colleague Mary Branscombe ...

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Those using Microsoft's OneDrive will be able to cut back on data usage as Microsoft has recently confirmed that differential sync has now been enabled for all file types and all customers.

It’s official: OneDrive placeholders are coming back to Windows, but with a new name. Microsoft made the announcement on Monday during Ignite, the company’s conference for IT professionals. The new ...

You can temporarily stop OneDrive from syncing in the "Help & Settings" menu of the OneDrive notification area icon. By default, OneDrive keeps all the files and folders in the OneDrive folder in sync ...

Windows 10: How to pause OneDrive syncing to improve performance Your email has been sent Syncing OneDrive can use computing resources to a point where overall PC performance suffers. Pausing syncing ...