If you accidentally delete files from SharePoint or OneDrive, it’s not immediately obvious where you would go to recover them, especially if you are used to accessing them as synced files on your computer, as they do not get sent to the normal recycle bin. Here, we’ll quickly show you how to you can easily recover them.
Sometimes it’s useful to have your SharePoint folders synced to your computer so you can access your data directly in Explorer. Syncing is easy, but there are a couple of things to bear in mind.
Syncing your OneDrive and SharePoint content to your PC is a useful way of accessing your data in the familiar Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder) view. It’s also a great way to work on items offline as you can sync in advance of travelling. But, there is a cost in terms of the background processing, especially if you have a large number of items in your OneDrive or SharePoint libraries.
Perhaps you need to collaborate on documents, provide files for the external colleague to download, or even provide a location for them to upload files to your tenancy. If you need to share a folder with people outside of your organisation, you can do this securely with SharePoint.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is here and in general release. This post is a summary (not by Copilot, but by us!) of some introductory documentation from Microsoft Learn on what it is, how it works, and how you can incorporate it into your Microsoft 365 experience.
Before the cloud, when businesses were primarily working from an office, they knew where their information was, how people could access it, how it was backed up and how it was protected. Now since we’re ever increasingly working in the cloud and from multiple remote locations, it’s less clear. This can cause all sorts of problems and headaches for businesses, including a heightened risk of becoming the victim of fraud through to non-compliance with your legal and regulatory obligations.
Keeping the metadata of your documents on SharePoint up to date is a great way to keep projects organised. It can be really frustrating when you are trying to edit this data, but are unable to, due to the file being currently locked for shared use. This can happen when someone else has the document open or SharePoint thinks you still have the document open by mistake after you have closed it.
The OneDrive app is a great tool to sync your files from OneDrive and SharePoint, but it can occasionally run into problems. Luckily, it’s very good at telling you if you know what to look for! Here, we’ll look at the most commonly seen icons and what they mean.
The file path length is the total number of characters in the file path. This includes spaces and backslashes. When working with files and folders, it is important to consider the file path length. The Windows operating system has a maximum file path length of 260 characters, but this limit is often reduced to 255 characters due to some reserved characters that take up extra space. In this blog, we’ll discuss why file path length is important and the potential issues that can arise if the length of the file path is too long. Additionally, what can be done if you are encountering an error caused by a long file path.
The modern Office apps come with all sorts of great features not previously available, and Versioning (alongside AutoSave) is one of those. If your files are saved in OneDrive or SharePoint it’s a great way of rolling back changes or comparing different iterations of your documents, spreadsheets or presentations.