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bryanchua
Sep 09, 2019Copper Contributor
Syncing and Sharing Non-Office Files from SharePoint Online
I'm wondering how OneDrive for Business sync works for non-office files that are stored in SharePoint Online and shared across multiple users? For one of our customers, SharePoint is their storag...
- Sep 09, 2019Syncing wont' work very well with non office files as you have seen since it doesn't detect the files are locked for use. You might be able to utilize checking out but you can't do that from the sync client.
The reason you get duplicates is because the files will open locally, then when saved sync back, if two files save within that period then a sync conflict happens and then either overwrite or copy (duplicate) happens. All other sync tools work in a similar fashion to my knowledge as well.
Syncing wont' work very well with non office files as you have seen since it doesn't detect the files are locked for use. You might be able to utilize checking out but you can't do that from the sync client.
The reason you get duplicates is because the files will open locally, then when saved sync back, if two files save within that period then a sync conflict happens and then either overwrite or copy (duplicate) happens. All other sync tools work in a similar fashion to my knowledge as well.
The reason you get duplicates is because the files will open locally, then when saved sync back, if two files save within that period then a sync conflict happens and then either overwrite or copy (duplicate) happens. All other sync tools work in a similar fashion to my knowledge as well.
MelanieM365
May 27, 2022Copper Contributor
Hi ChrisWebbTech , what is the best way to work with non-office documents without duplicating them and still have the ability to use metadata?