Forum Discussion
Files on demand - difference in 'locally available' and 'always available' files
- Oct 20, 2017
locally available files are ones you've already opened whilst online, or created while online, or created recently on another device while you were online; they stream down to your PC so you have them if you need them, but they're not guaranteed to be there. If you haven't opened the files in a while and the space is needed to stream down other recent files to make them available locally, they'll revert to being online only (AFAIK that's based on heuristics and will vary by free space, not a strict counter). if you want to guarantee that the files are always available offline, right-click and mark them as 'always available offline'. You can mix and match both kinds inside a folder.
Are "locally available files" supposed to be fresh?
Is such a file updated when a change happens in the cloud automatically, or does the file get its updates only when I open the file (while having an internet connection of course)?
- Nipun2305Jul 18, 2019Copper Contributor
Yes, as long as you have an Internet connection the locally available file gets update with cloud changes and vice Versa.