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OneDrive folders and files are always in the cloud, but that can also reside and syncronise with your computer.
Once you have added shared folder to your OneDrive, the folder and file structure will always appear on your computer, however the file or folder size may be large and you may not wish to continually chew up space on your hard drive.
Conversely, if you were away from internat access, e.g.. on a plane (as if), then you might want a copy to be always residing on your computer.
In this latter case, and changes to files would be syncronised once you are reconnected and logged in.**
It either shows a cloud, or 2 different green tick icons.
You can view the status of your OneDrive folders or files by looking at the "Status" column in the details view of windows explorer.
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Is this file in the cloud? | Yes | Yes ** | Yes ** | Unknown*** | Unknown*** |
Is this file on my computer | No, but will be downloaded automatically when you access it. | Yes | Yes | Unknown*** | Unknown*** |
You can right-mouse click on a folder or file and change that status.
Files are only synchronised with the cloud (which is really just a bank of server computers somewhere on the internet) when
Refer also to these FAQs: