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Brass Contributor

Aug 04, 2016

Solved

Files Open with Explorer

Has the "Open with Explorer" feature ever been discussed as it relates to the Groups files? That functionality has been very useful on a few occasions when migrating data from one library to another...

groups

Library

Office 365 Groups

SanthoshB1
Aug 05, 2016
It is still available when documents are opened in Internet Explorer. AFAIK, it workes only in IE as it depends on ActiveX control.

Open in Internet Explorer

darrellaas

MVP

Aug 12, 2016

I don't use the next generation sync client or Open in Explorer much at all. I open from the browser if for the first time. After I work with a document, I use the Most Recently Used list within the Office application. If it's a doc I'm working on, I pin it. If it's a doc library I frequent, I pin that too. Then the doc or location is available across all my devices.

James Ward

Copper Contributor

Feb 09, 2017

How do you pin a library?

darrellaas
MVP
Feb 10, 2017
Hi James.
I put together the following video to illustrate. I pin document libraries often, because I belong to a few Team Sites, Outlook Groups and Microsoft Teams. Once I have opened or worked on a document from a document library, I'll pin it for easy access later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXu5lZCVcg

Jonathan Meyer
Copper Contributor
Nov 21, 2017
Our users are very interested in pinning SharePoint document library locations within File Explorer. They may need to combine documents using a PDF writer, for example, that does not support SharePoint sites like Office does. However, pinned sites in File Explorer tend to "unauthenticate" after around 8 hours. Do you have any ideas on how to get around this limitation?