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Sync v Shortcut to OneDrive. What's the difference?
Hello, After much experimentation, I fail to see the difference between Sync and "Add shortcut to OneDrive". Does anyone know why you would use one over the other? I've created 3 document librar...
John Sellars : I absolutely agree with you and share your frustration. Users would want two options:
1) keeping a copy on local harddrive to be used when offline - the "Sync" option
2) working directly on the sharepoint file without any local copy - what one would expect "Add shortcut to onedrive" to do - but unfortunately that's not how it works. The term "shortcut" is misleading as it indicates its merely a link to the underlying datafile, whereas it in fact brings a copy onto your workstation while working on it.
