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The Placeholder files are actually more deeply integrated into Windows 8.1 than you might realise: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn32
by voltagex_ 11y ago
The Placeholder files are actually more deeply integrated into Windows 8.1 than you might realise: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn323738(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn3...
The choice to remove them in 10 seems partly driven via user metrics and support calls - users were confused about which files were available when.
It makes using OneDrive pretty much impossible in bandwidth or disk space constrained environments, though.
- Spooky23 11y agoMicrosoft made a decision to move away from the SharePoint/Groove "OneDrive for Business", mostly because of the broken sync engine. I thought the OneDrive changes were driven by the enterprise considerations. Stubbing would be very useful to VDI and an uptick in solutions like VDI that commoditizes the Windows experience in a manner that isn't complimentary to Windows.
- frik 11y agoSo basically, Groove/Sharepoint Workspace/OneDrive for Business is dead, good to know. Sad they haven't fixed their sync engine.