Comment on Isn't OneDrive/Sharepiont the exact OPPOSITE of a shared drive?

• mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Once the SharePoint site is set up, your team should then sync the directory

  …microsoft.com/…/sync-sharepoint-files-and-folder…

  This allows for ‘local’ file browsing. Works very well and keeps my entire team in sync. I’ve never had any major issues with this setup. I also make sure to set important files that I work on regularly to "always keep on this device’ (…microsoft.com/…/save-disk-space-with-onedrive-fi…)

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• eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could with the old SharePoint, but they took that feature away. The way around it is to open the SharePoint link in Edge, then bottom left “Return to classic SharePoint”, then Edge settings > Launch in Internet Explorer mode. After that you should now have a SP tab called library (you may need to click around the SP ribbon for it to appear) and in that tab should be “Open in File Explorer”.

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tried this and failed: I don’t see any controls in the bottom left, also no “Return to classic SharePoint” elsewhere. I guess the admins have turned that off.

    I did find an option “Add lnk to OneDrive” which I clicked. Nothing happened in the browser, but I now do see that folder in Windows Explorer > OneDrive. So, yay, that works.

    Now I just have this rando folder at the top level of my OneDrive. I have moved into a subfolder that makes sense to me, and I hope that doesn’t break anything.

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• SGG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The sharepoint itself - browser only

  The document libraries - there is a “sync” button you can press to get them into the OneDrive client on your PC, and therefore into file explorer. (It’s also possible for admins to automate this)

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• fouloleron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  SharePoint and OneDrive folders can be synced locally. You get a local copy of the folder in online mode, so files are only downloaded if you specify, or if you open them.

  Once you get that sorted out, you can stop worrying about where the file lives.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SharePoint and OneDrive folders can be synced locally.

    yea, right…have tried that and the next day all the coworkers complained why am I creating hundreds of duplicate files.

    After this has happened the second time (and ofc all the M$ experts had no clue, no, this can never happen…), I just won’t touch this Onedrive anymore. Ever.

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