Windows 10 still doesn’t have this capability despite the continued customer angst. Two years ago, Microsoft released a beta test version of Windows 10 that didn’t support smart files. The technology is easy to describe, but apparently hard for Microsoft to implement in Windows 10. Thus, you could save space on your PC while still accessing the rest of your files in OneDrive as needed. Those offline files would "stream" to your PC only when you tried to open them. Smart files let you see all your OneDrive files and folders in the Windows File Explorer, but not have to actually sync them to your PC. It was one of the few features-arguably the only-that made Windows 8 tolerable. If you’ve been using Microsoft’s OneDrive online storage for a few years, you likely remember “smart files,” aka placeholders.
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