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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I've yet to see a cloud storage solution that doesn't have offline-storage.

Like... WTF is going on? This is the Technology community, and yet you people come here and comment like you've only dealt with computers in the 90s...

The file is saved locally, then - as soon as there's a network connection - gets uploaded to the Cloud and remains in both locations. You can access it from both "ends" - if you edit it in the Cloud or on a different device, the changes get sync'd down, etc.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i've seen my friends who never changed a setting in their life struggle with not being able to access their files when their internet died. how default settings work i do not know exactly myself, i don't use cloud saving

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

There are only two possibilities here: either they were trying to access these files offline on a different device, or they had their storage completely full.

In the latter case OneDrive will kick out the oldest files to Online Only, so that you still have space to save newer stuff locally.

Oh, I guess there's a third option - they were using some obscure third party cloud storage. Something that's not Filen, OneDrive or DropBox.