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Will # _________ H
Aug 19, 2019Copper Contributor
regarding "Make Avalible Offline" of OneDrive for business
Hi there, we have a client who want to use OneDrive for business for editing. someone will use the feature of Make Avalible Offline in OneDrive App. my question is the same user open the same fil...
- Aug 19, 2019
No, just because you make it available offline doesn't mean it'll edit on the local disk, it will only do so if either A. You are offline, or B. You have the option in onedrive client on Office tab "Use Office application to sync Office files that I open" unchecked, this is on by default. So anytime you open a file connected to onedrive, offline sync or not, it will open Online if connected.
Office web always opens online file.I see what your asking thou, they are not separate, soon as you update the file on Office web, it will sync to your Local file. And vise versa. There is no separate file. If you edit offline on the offline copy local disk, once you get back online it will upload and update the online copy. If you opened on the web and made changes while you edited that offline file while offline, then you will have a sync conflict that you need to correct.
Will # _________ H
Aug 19, 2019Copper Contributor
Thank you for your explanation indeed. put simply, even though we use the function of "Make available Offline" to edit the document, the document still stay online. BUT I am a little bit confusion, how I should explain this mechanism to my client.?? because they always think "available Offline" mean we download the document on our local disk. is there any documents I can refer to??
Aug 19, 2019
It does download the file offline to local disk. It's just when you open that file, a check is made by the office client and it will open it directly online if you are connected(if the option is enabled as described above). Otherwise if opens the local disk copy.
If the file is not an office file, it will always open on the local disk when Make available Offline is enabled.
If the file is not an office file, it will always open on the local disk when Make available Offline is enabled.
- Will # _________ HAug 19, 2019Copper Contributorso I think even though the file was downloaded on the local disk, next time we click the file and opened it in the browser directly, at this time the file should be different from the copy on the disk.
- Aug 19, 2019It won't be because you are always syncing via the client. Unless you turn off / pause sync (and unchecked the option in the client discussed above), open the file local, edit, and open on browser will it be different.
- Will # _________ HAug 19, 2019Copper Contributorwhatever whether or not we allow "available offline" it is always the same file... unless we turn off / pause sync, if we do it, the file will located on the local disk. if the logic like this, when we allow "available offline", where the file is??