OneDrive - Sync Icons Explained for files and folders
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OneDrive is great for syncing your files. OneDrive has a great feature called Files on Demand. Your files on your computer could have three possible status icons with Files on Demand running. These icons appear when you are in File Explorer. I'll explain the three OneDrive sync icons and determine the local hard drive space used on your computer from OneDrive. We will look at how to free up hard drive space used by OneDrive.
The OneDrive Files on Demand sync icons are easy to understand. You have three icons for your files and folders. The "Blue cloud icon" is for files available online. No space is taken up on your local hard drive. If you don't have an internet connection, you can't download or access the blue cloud icons only.
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The "Green tick icon" or "green check in a white circle icon", is for files on your computer and OneDrive. Unlike the blue cloud icon, these files are available without an internet connection.
The last icon is the "Solid green circle with the white check mark icon". These files are the same as the Green tick, except, if Storage Sense is turned on, these files will ALWAYS be on your hard drive and OneDrive. If you do not have Storage Sense running, the two checked icons would work the same. Storage Sense, if configured, will take the green tick mark files, when your hard drive starts getting full or after x numbers of days of no file activity, and move the green tick marks to the cloud only - the blue cloud icon.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:21 OneDrive storage
3:35 View OneDrive space online
4:32 Three icons for storage
5:18 Blue cloud icon
5:35 Tick icon or Green check
6:18 White check with Green circle
7:47 Download cloud become tick icon
8:55 Free up space
11:40 Setting - Files on Demand
Storage:
When you open File Explorer, click OneDrive, and select Properties to see two storage numbers. One is the total storage of your OneDrive account. numbers. This is not the storage that's on your computer that's the total amount of storage being used in your OneDrive account. To see the storage is being used on your computer look at size on disk So much time
drive.google.com/file/d/1lv9D...
Icons explained
Blue Cloud icon
A blue cloud icon next to your OneDrive files or folders indicates that the file is only available online. Online-only files don’t take up space on your computer.
No internet, no file download.
Green tick icons
When you open an online-only file, it downloads to your device and becomes a locally available file. You can open a locally available file anytime, even without Internet access.
If you need more space, you can change the file back to online only. Just right-click the file and select “Free up space.”
Solid green circle with the white check mark
Files that you mark as "Always keep on this device" have the green circle with the white check mark. These always available files download to your device and take up space, but they’re always there for you even when you’re offline.
OneDrive Files On-Demand for Windows 10
Files on demand work on Windows and Mac.
Files On-Demand allows you to access all your files and folders stored in OneDrive without having to download all of them, and use up your hard drive storage. By default you have 1024 GB of storage in OneDrive, or 1 TB.
When you turn on Files On-Demand, you’ll see all your files in File Explorer and get new information about each file. The three icons are the blue cloud, the green tick icon, and the solid green circle with the white check mark.
Microsoft Support Article - What do the OneDrive icons mean?
support.microsoft.com/en-us/o...
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3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Marc. I could use a "beverage" today. :-)
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3 жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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9 ай бұрын
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8 ай бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Dan! I appreciate the feedback.
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
Jim, thank you so much. I remember making this video and when I was done, I couldn't believe I went for 13 minutes. :-)
I found your video to be the most useful instruction in all of the web. You kept me from making monumental errors.
Thanks so much Chris....Ive had one drive for ages and its always been a mystery. You made it so clear and concise. Thank you.
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2 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. A lot of my videos end up on Microsoft's 365 KZread channel. I appreciate the nice compliment.
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Жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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Brilliantly explained in plain English that even I can understand. Been struggling to understand OneDrive and why it is taking up so much space on my C: Drive when my Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos folders are all on my D: Drive. Now I know! Not only that, I now know how to free up that space. Thanks ever so much.
I am a very slow learner in that my preference learning is from wholes down to parts. Your explanations have helped me a great deal to fill in those gaps though. Thank you.
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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@ChrisMenardTraining
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to help. It can be confusing.
Very well explained thank you. That has resolved my confusion as to where a particular file/folder is stored - cloud, local or both.
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2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Robert.
Thank you Chris! I just learnt so many things. Was wondering why my documents and files have the green check. Now I am fully informed. Grateful for the knowledge sharing. Suli (Fiji)
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2 жыл бұрын
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Excellent explanation. I'm new to this and you made it so simple and clear...far better than One Drive or Microsoft can do Thank you
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2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! Thanks, Robert.
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2 жыл бұрын
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This was great. I recently had a clean install of Windows 10 done on my PC. Although I had most of my files backed up to an external hard drive, I did lose some things. With this new install, I've made the decision to go to One Drive. I'm still a novice at One Drive so this was extremely clear and helpful.
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Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Beth
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Жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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10 ай бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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🤔 I've watched several of the onedrive videos on KZread and remained confused or worse more 😵💫confused than before watching. However, Chris finally managed to get onedrive status icons explained in a way or manner that made it MUCH easier for me. 👍
Thanks for your explanation! Finally i found some one explain the main difference between the green check mark & the white check mark.
@ChrisMenardTraining
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I know what you mean. I've seen some horrible explanations of the check marks.
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2 жыл бұрын
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5 ай бұрын
Happy to help!
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2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Tyler.
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sally. Much appreciated.
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Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! Thanks, Patrick.
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Жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tim! I appreciate the positive feedback.
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally, someone that knows what the purpose of the solid green circle means.
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Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
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The icons were confusing and you have aptly clarified.
@ChrisMenardTraining
6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
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2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks, Michael.
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9 ай бұрын
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9 ай бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
Glad to help. Thanks, John.
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Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear that!
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@ChrisMenardTraining
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I made this video because of the other explanations. :-)
When I view onedrive online most my folders are empty, on my pc they have the blue cloud and I click on it and it is empty. I just started using ondrive, but years ago i'm sure my files somehow when to onedrive without me knowing. I was never interested in it back then, but now I'm starting to use it. Lots of stuff to learn. Your video was very good.
@ChrisMenardTraining
Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
Great video. I didn't know this was how it worked. Thank you.
@ChrisMenardTraining
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to help. I kept getting asked about OneDrive so I decided to make a video.
thanks for a really nice walkthrough
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Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks, Kasper.
Clear, Simple, Perfect
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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@ChrisMenardTraining
Жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks!
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@ChrisMenardTraining
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Much appreciated. I love OneDrive.
clear explanation.. good graphics , Thanks
@ChrisMenardTraining
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Thanks, I needed this. Just had to start using onedrive for work, my first week using and I lost internet and had none of my files to work with. I couldn't figure how how to get everything back on the new laptop. I'm running "always keep on device" right now, fingers crossed!
Great explanation..thanks so much..
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2 жыл бұрын
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Thank you. Very helpful.
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Жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the positive feedback!
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3 жыл бұрын
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Informative video. Thank you
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome 😊
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4 ай бұрын
Thank you! I love OneDrive. It does have a lot of icons and can get confusing. I'm glad this helped.
Great info, thanks.
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Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Informative... OneDrive is wonderful indeed.
@ChrisMenardTraining
2 жыл бұрын
I agree! Thanks, AJ.
You sir, are a godsend. Thanks!
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Жыл бұрын
Glad to help. Thanks, Vincent.
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Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙌
Thank you, finally I understand.
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2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! Thanks, Miriam.
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2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Anthony.
Thank you chris.
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2 жыл бұрын
You are welcome.
Nice video. Thank you. :)
Very useful.. Thankyou
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11 ай бұрын
Welcome 😊
Thanks Chris
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@ChrisMenardTraining
2 жыл бұрын
No problem 👍
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Great video Chris, I'm new to using OneDrive so that was a clear to understand overview, thanks. One icon I have that isn't mentioned is the blue 'recycle' circle, two blue arrows in a circle, I am assuming this is the sync logo and I always seen to have this and not the cloud logo. Any ideas?
Thans you so much for the information.
@ChrisMenardTraining
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!