Hello Microsoft Community,
Thanks for reading and hopefully responding.
Question 1)
I had my Desktop and Surface Book both set to Fetch files. Both appeared in the browser version of OneDrive under a section called PC's. Due to issues with the Surface Book, it was appearing twice. In haste I right clicked all 3 instances and deleted them. I naturally thought, I could toggle Fetch in settings or Unlink and sign in again and those PC Fetch connections would have been re-established. After messing with this ad nauseaum, my PC's remain unaccessible via Fetch. All was working fine enough prior to my hindsight poor action. What steps may I take to get the respective PC's to both show back up under Fetch in the OneDrive browser window? When set up directly, is there any way to access those PC's with fetch through File Explorer? I imagine the same thing could be done through HomeGroup or Remote access, but I do like things to work as intended and having multiple options is not a bad thing.
Question 2)
I want to use my 1TB storage with my 365 subscription to primarily back up my main workstation. I have even pointed the default User folders to their respective OneDrive equivalents. That is all fine and good and I do not mind having the OneDrive storage syncing locally and hosting the files locally. This is a good redundancy for my backup plan.
Herein lies the problem and the question... I also want to be able to access these files on my new Surface Book 512GB i7 (maybe switching to a SP4 due to issues with the SB but that's a story for another thread). I do not want to have to SYNC all these files to my Surface Book/SP4 as space is much more limited and I want to have that space available for programs, apps, games, etc. I do want to be able to access all of my data being synced from the main workstation however (without an archaic browser format). Why can I not access any files in OneDrive that are not available offline on my Surface Book without having to view my OneDrive in a browser? I have even tried to map a network drive which is quasi-reliable at best and far from ideal. What is the point of having all of my data in the cloud if it is such a hassle to access it. Surely I must be missing something? "Shirley you can't be serious!?" I have a 2TB SSD in my workstation. It takes about 500-600GB to back up everything I would like to OneDrive. I cannot reasonably sync all of this to my Surface Book or SP4 as those devices are not even equipped with adequate storage to do so (not even the 1TB models). This defeats the purpose. Those files need to be accessible through my file system. Oddly enough, Cortana will search your OneDrive even if it is not being synced, but unless you know precisely what you are looking for, that is very rough around the edges too.
Question 3)
I have noticed when browsing OneDrive and my Office 365 online, there is a list of Recent Online Documents. This list basically comtains junk word docs from over a year ago. I do not know how they got into this recent online list. I have no local copy of them, nor do I have a copy of them on OneDrive. How can I delete this recent list from whatever server location it is being stored? Depending on what appears there and seemingly unable to be removed could be a security risk. I tried using Word from an iOS device (of all the workarounds) and only 2 of the 3 files appeared there. It refused to let me delete either but was able to remove them from the list. Now I have no idea where those 2 files are as they disappeared (not deleted allegedly). The third file does not appear on the iOS list (which is now empty) and still appears in the web browser.
Thanks so much for reading and taking the time out to engage me in conversation on these questions. Hopefully I can get some answers.