Solid green means keep a copy on device but sync to cloud. Clear tick means delete from device if unused for a certain period of time in order to save space.
'solid green' files always remain on your device, while 'light green' files are stored temporarily until they are removed from your local disk and become cloud-only. In other words, if you don’t use a document or file(light green) for a certain period, 'Storage Sense' will remove the local copy to free up space.
Your content is always top-notch. I really enjoy your videos. I'm wondering if you could possibly cover syncing errors in a future video? I encounter them frequently and they're causing a lot of issues. For instance, I often run into problems like failed spreadsheet updates, unsuccessful downloads, overwhelming recovery files, Outlook sync failures, blocked uploads, and general sync and save issues. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'd like to protect some files by making them read-only, including to myself. This means I won't be able to accidentally modify them, and the file date won't change when I open them
I wish I understood all of this. As an older person I did not grow up with computer technology and I get in a mess when I try to follow these instructions. I finally synced photos on my android phone to my android tablet. Now I want to delete those photos on phone to free up space, but will this delete those photos on my tablet? 😮
Honestly, I have no idea. Deleted and reinstalled OneDrive on my phone, which didn't seem to work, and then a day or so later, it did. However, still not synced to my desktop, only android tablet. All very confusing.
@@bearded365guy yup, so I’m in a hybrid system where we use Active Directory but I’m in the process of adding our devices to entra. When I brought this up with my IT manager he wanted to keep both services running.
@@bearded365guy Yes, I work in a hybrid environment and have to manually join every computer to domain after it's on Entra. Is there a way around it or would I still have to go through the manual joining process?
I've been using OneDrive for like forever but I still don't fully understand the light green tick. I know the dark green one is like a forced 'always keep a copy on my computer', and the light green one is when you've basically tried to open it by either double-clicking on it or opening it in an application. I also know the light green tick is linked to *Storage Sense*. If this is turned on and the drive is set to some sort of cleanup routine, the light green tick files will be cleared from the drive and become online only (cloud icon) either due to the drive getting too full or after a certain period of time if that's been set. It's Storage Sense that decides when a light green tick reverts to a blue cloud. Any other services/situations that might force a light green ticked file to online only? Any other functional differences between the two types of ticks?
I think you've understood this correctly. Files On Demand means that when you open a doc it downloads it locally (green tick in white circle). Without storage sense, that document would stay locally available as well as in the cloud. But storage sense can be configured to clean these up after a period of time. However, if you have storage sense configured to clean up, but you have chosen to right-click>always keep on this device (white tick in green circle) on certain folders/files, storage sense will leave these alone. They stay local unless you right-click>free up space.
Solid green means keep a copy on device but sync to cloud. Clear tick means delete from device if unused for a certain period of time in order to save space.
'solid green' files always remain on your device, while 'light green' files are stored temporarily until they are removed from your local disk and become cloud-only. In other words, if you don’t use a document or file(light green) for a certain period, 'Storage Sense' will remove the local copy to free up space.
Great video once again Jonathan, appreciate you sharing your expertise!
Thank you for this video, very helpful in understanding the mystryies of OneDrive..
Great! Very informative.
Very informative ❤
Your content is always top-notch. I really enjoy your videos. I'm wondering if you could possibly cover syncing errors in a future video? I encounter them frequently and they're causing a lot of issues. For instance, I often run into problems like failed spreadsheet updates, unsuccessful downloads, overwhelming recovery files, Outlook sync failures, blocked uploads, and general sync and save issues. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
@@daveboylan247 Yes!
@Jonathan Edwards Thanks Jonathan 😊 🙏 very well and clearly explained step by step 🚶♀️ 👏
Folder colors are now available on Windows 11 and they sync with OneDrive.
I'd like to protect some files by making them read-only, including to myself. This means I won't be able to accidentally modify them, and the file date won't change when I open them
I wish I understood all of this. As an older person I did not grow up with computer technology and I get in a mess when I try to follow these instructions. I finally synced photos on my android phone to my android tablet. Now I want to delete those photos on phone to free up space, but will this delete those photos on my tablet? 😮
How did you sync the photos from you phone to the tablet? 😊
Honestly, I have no idea. Deleted and reinstalled OneDrive on my phone, which didn't seem to work, and then a day or so later, it did. However, still not synced to my desktop, only android tablet. All very confusing.
@@JayDee-po5bc Did you check the OneDrive web version?
Good stuff
Is there a way to connect to a domain automatically through Autopilot?
@@wumpster5 Domain, not Entra ID?
@@bearded365guy yup, so I’m in a hybrid system where we use Active Directory but I’m in the process of adding our devices to entra. When I brought this up with my IT manager he wanted to keep both services running.
@@bearded365guy Yes, I work in a hybrid environment and have to manually join every computer to domain after it's on Entra. Is there a way around it or would I still have to go through the manual joining process?
How did you add the "Integral" logo?
@@paulsommer8662 You have to brand your tenant….video to follow soon
I'll be waiting for it. Thank you!
Can you please tell me what is this amazing accent. I'm learning English as well as Onedrive of course 😅
The issue I have with One drive is that I dont see an option to sync files before you start the software
I can watch these videos forever just to hear „let me show you hooooow“😅
OneDrive screwed us, I work at a university and had 5tb of storage which got rolled back to 100gb, over night without warning.
And this is why I backup all cloud data to on-prem server for my clients…. That sucks for a university to lose that much data.
I've been using OneDrive for like forever but I still don't fully understand the light green tick.
I know the dark green one is like a forced 'always keep a copy on my computer', and the light green one is when you've basically tried to open it by either double-clicking on it or opening it in an application.
I also know the light green tick is linked to *Storage Sense*. If this is turned on and the drive is set to some sort of cleanup routine, the light green tick files will be cleared from the drive and become online only (cloud icon) either due to the drive getting too full or after a certain period of time if that's been set. It's Storage Sense that decides when a light green tick reverts to a blue cloud.
Any other services/situations that might force a light green ticked file to online only?
Any other functional differences between the two types of ticks?
I think you've understood this correctly. Files On Demand means that when you open a doc it downloads it locally (green tick in white circle). Without storage sense, that document would stay locally available as well as in the cloud. But storage sense can be configured to clean these up after a period of time. However, if you have storage sense configured to clean up, but you have chosen to right-click>always keep on this device (white tick in green circle) on certain folders/files, storage sense will leave these alone. They stay local unless you right-click>free up space.