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Brass Contributor

Aug 18, 2019

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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...

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ChrisWebbTech
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.

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

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.

Will # _________ H

Brass Contributor

Aug 19, 2019

so 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.

ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Aug 19, 2019
It 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 # _________ H
  Brass Contributor
  Aug 19, 2019
  whatever 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??
  - ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    Aug 19, 2019
    It's on your local disk......and will be used when "Offline" like it says.
    
    If you are online it will open the file directly from OneDrive Online if it's an Office file.
    
    Any changes you make Online, or via Office web will sync back to the "Offline" copy of the file as they happen.
    
    The only time the files open from the local copy is when you are offline, the file is not an office file, or you have that option unchecked.
    
    Those local file changes will sync back to OneDrive via sync client as changes are made if you are online, if you are offline the changes will be uploaded next time you are online.