Can I Use OneDrive Like This?

I want to work on a Libre document in its own directory on my hard drive.

But I'd like it to be mirrored onto One Drive. So that everything I do to it is reflected immediately onto the One Drive copy

Then when I'm elsewhere on some other PC I'd like to work on that doc on One Drive.

Then when I come back to my machine I'd like to be able to sync my Hard Drive old copy with the newly updated one. But if that can't be done it doesn't matter. I'd just overwrite with the One Drive copy.

The main things I'm asking about is can I work on a file on my HDD and have it mirrored on One Drive? I ask because I don''t see how to do that right now...

Create the file in your OneDrive folder then it should synch in your OneDrive folder on any PC - but ensure you select the folder on each PC. You can also view and edit files using OneDrive on a web page Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive will warn you if there are synch problems

Thanks for the reply.

But if I'm reading what you say right then that's no good.

'create in your one drive folder' - that's no good because if there's no internet there's no access.

that's what's been happening to me to infuriate me. It all got set up somehow without me understanding what was happening and I found I had two folders often: for instance a 'downloads' on the Hard Drive and a 'downloads' on the 'One Drive'.

And I'd download stuff and I couldn't find it.

and it would be in the One Drive and not on the hard drive.

And then sometimes it wouldn't be on the One Drive, because the net connection was down and there was no One Drive.

That's why I say I want to work off my Hard Drive. Replicate to One Drive. Go elsewhere and find it available.

See?

And no matter what happens to the web I have it on the hard drive.

The last synced file will on on your PC here C:\Users\myname\OneDrive\Documents. Ensure you set the file / folder options for the files you want to be avaiable on your PC the the latest version will be copied to your local folder as above.

Obviously you can't synch files using OneDrive without internet connectivity!

Thanks for that, Cerberus and Steve.

I'm trying to absorb it all and see it I can use it.

Right now I'm thinking I don't want 'on your PC here C:\Users\myname\OneDrive\Documents' - I want it here: C:\Users\myname\Documents.

When I try to do the 'selective sync' thing I don't get the same menu choices as those web pages suggest: I don't get an option 'choose one drive folders to sync'. That's a frequent thing with me - my machine doesn't offer me the options tutorial and help web pages are saying I should get. Am I the only one?

The 'symbolic links' thing might be what I want. I'll see.


You know my basic position is I just want a one click upload to the cloud.

Forget syncing for the moment. I can handle that myself. Just give me a one click upload to somewhere I can access from anywhere.

That would satisfy me.

Seems to me that most everywhere they're looking at it all the wrong way round. They all seem to be talking from the point of view of the Cloud. Of the One Drive.

They start there and then sync 'down' to individual pc's, folders.

I don't think like that. I think from the point of view of my pc.

I'm thinking perhaps it'd be easier and better if I can find a way to one click upload to one of my own sites maybe.

Anyway thanks. I'll see what I can do.

The OneDrive folder is a local folder on your computer. Just make sure the files on-demand function is turned off and all files will be stored in your local OneDrive folder on your hard drive.

Any changes will automatically be uploaded/downloaded. I frequently work without an internet connection and as soon as I get an internet connection, the modified file(s) are automatically uploaded to OneDrive cloud (and automatically downloaded to my iMac, MacBook, etc.).

Thanks for that Eric. Clears something up for me.

And I've renamed the three folders in my One Drive thing and that clears things up for me a bit, too, very mind blowing that 'Documents' folder on my HDD and another 'Documents' folder on my 'One Drive' (which I now know, courtesy of yourself, is actually on my Hard Drive, too)

I've now got 'ONEattach' and 'ONEdocs' and 'ONEpics' just so's I know what's what. :)

They seem to make it a bit hard. I right clicked everywhere I could think of but couldn't come across any place to switch on/off the 'files on demand' function.

Yep. I know. I don't have to spell it out though, do I? Place for that information is right there on a right click on a one drive directory. At least.

You know I was in our family car the other day and wanted somewhere to put a manila folder full of papers. Quite a normal folder. I was in this car that represented Mitsubishi's last desperate attempt to sell many cars in Australia and become viable and box on.

It failed. They're gone now. As are all car manufacturers here.

More than one reason.

But the thing that got me: There was no place to put it. It would not fit easily into either the passenger door pocket or the driver door pocket. It wouldn't fit easily into the 'glove box' (when's the last time a pair of gloves went in there?).

Decades of making cars and still simple things like that not standard.

It's like no beta testing. It's like manufacturers are getting further and further away from the people. Lost the plot.

And I wondered if that's what is happening with Microsoft. They've just lost touch with the people. Live in a world of their own?

So they confidently and proudly release software into the world - not to hundreds, not to thousands, not even to millions, but to billions of people - which requires googling to find the way to what ought to be a staple action.

And I'm sure would have been if it had ever been realistically beta tested.

Yep. You don't have to tell me how to do it. I'm quite capable of googling. Been doing it for years. But thanks for the chance to mouth off about manufacturers and their apparent blindness.

:)