Originally Posted by
double_barrel
It seems I don't understand how MS onedrive is meant to work!
I understand that onedrive is intended to provide synchronisation between a directory on one physical computer and cloud-based copies - for the purpose of backup and sharing.
At my employer at least OneDrive is intended to be used as an alternative to the physical drive and there is no local copy of any files. If you need a local copy you have to download it, from which point it will no longer be synchronised to the cloud version. Backups are handled transparently by the cloud provider.