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Iron Contributor

Dec 17, 2018

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How to access Sharpoint Files outside of Sharepoint

We have another cloud application that we use for our Project Management as well as another application that's on-premise. We need to access files that are stored in SharePoint by browsing FROM these...

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ChrisWebbTech
Dec 17, 2018
You can turn on Storage Sense (In Storage Settings) in Windows 10, and configure it to release these files daily as OnDemand uses this technology for it's cleanup. It can be set on schedule or as your space gets low etc. Take a look.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/112382-automatically-make-onedrive-files-demand-online-only-windows-10-a.html

MVP

Dec 17, 2018

If you have files on-demand turned on for OneDrive you can also sync the SharePoint libraries and it will only use the space for the metadata or when accessing the files etc. So in this case you would sync your Library you need just like OneDrive.

luvsql
Iron Contributor
Dec 17, 2018
That would be amazing. Is it a per document library sync or a per SharePoint Site sync? Is this done inside of OneDrive to add these libraries to sync to the OD client?
- ChrisWebbTech
  MVP
  Dec 17, 2018
  You can sync down to the folder level, but it's per library. When you sync a SharePoint Online site it adds a new explorer location / folder on your machine called Sites - Orgname, where it adds the folders/libraries you sync.
  
  You go to the library you want to sync in SharePoint, and there should be a sync button on the library. Currently there isn't a way to auto map SharePoint locations via policy but they are working on that.
  - luvsql
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 17, 2018
    This is fantastic. I wish we could prevent it from downloading the file locally when accessing it from another application (ie when I browsed to a file from this which is set to On Demand, then uploaded to another website, it actually downloaded the file and stored it locally). Would be very cool if they only did this temporarily using the temp folder and once it's uploaded it gets removed.
    
    This will defo work thought!

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