OneDrive finally overtakes Google Drive and iCloud with an offline mode. Here’s how to set this up
Microsoft OneDrive has finally introduced a feature long considered a staple of Google Drive and iCloud: an offline mode. The mode is rolling out to students and professionals starting today, allowing users to save and edit work whether they have an internet connection or not.
In offline mode for the web version of OneDrive, you can now access your files in the different sections of the program, such as your shared folder and meeting views, and edit, rename, and sort your documents – all without needing an internet connection.
All these changes are ‘saved’ offline and deployed as soon as you have an internet connection again and your changes are synced to the cloud. Files are marked as ‘available offline’, just as they are in Google Drive.
How to set it up
To use the new OneDrive offline mode, you’ll need to install the OneDrive app on your Windows or Mac device. Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to go to OneDrive in your web browser of choice.
You should be prompted to complete the one-time setup for offline mode, and voila! You are done! Please note that there are currently restrictions on what you can and cannot do with offline mode. If MSPoweruser According to reports, offline mode only supports if you have 250,000 files or less – hopefully that’s true! – and the feature is currently only supported for OneDrive for work and school (although a wider rollout is supposedly in the works).
While this is long overdue, this is a great opportunity for Onedrive users who need to work on the go and make last minute changes to their work, and it helps take the stress out of those unfortunate moments when your Wi-Fi crashes and you worry about losing everything Your progress! Hopefully this will entice more people to try the file manager – now that it’s finally up to speed with just about every other alternative.