To change the standing of a file or a folder in your iCloud Drive, right-click on it and select Download Now (you may discover that the grey icon disappears as soon as all the downloading is full). To reverse the method, right-click on a file or folder and choose Remove Download from the pop-up menu.

iCloud is accessible for Windows as properly, and when you’ve got it put in, you may see it seem within the left-hand navigation pane in File Explorer. The syncing system is similar as it’s for OneDrive for Windows: Right-click on a file or folder and verify or uncheck the Always carry on this gadget choice to regulate entry to it.

Dropbox

On Windows, you may get to your Dropbox folder from the Start menu, the left-hand pane of File Explorer, or the system tray (to the precise of the Taskbar). Icons subsequent to information and folders point out their standing: A grey cloud for online-only, a inexperienced tick for accessible offline, and a strong inexperienced tick for completely accessible offline, till you modify your thoughts.

To set an merchandise to be completely accessible from the native disk in Windows, right-click on it and select Dropbox, then Make accessible offline. The blue syncing icon seems (two arrows), then you definitely’ll see the strong inexperienced tick. Right-click on a file or folder and select Dropbox after which Make online-only to reverse the method.

Dropbox on a Mac might be discovered on the menu bar if it is at the moment operating and within the left-hand navigation pane in Finder (both via Dropbox or Applications). The icons are the identical as on Windows: To obtain a file or folder, you want to right-click on it and choose Make accessible offline. To reverse the method, right-click on it and choose Make online-only.

Google Drive

If you might have the Google Drive desktop consumer for Windows put in, syncing information out of your cloud storage locker to the native onerous drive, you may see a brand new digital drive seem within the This PC part of File Explorer. Go into My Drive, and all of your information and folders can be seen—they only will not be saved domestically in your onerous drive.

To change this, right-click on a file or folder and choose Show extra choices, Offline entry, and Available offline. As you may anticipate, to return the file or folder to its default state, you want to right-click on the merchandise once more and this time select Show extra choices, Offline entry, and Online solely.

On macOS, the Google Drive folder seems within the left-hand navigation pane in Finder. The shortcuts you want to know are much like those on Windows: Right-click on a file or folder and choose Available offline to verify a neighborhood copy is at all times accessible, and right-click on a file or folder and choose Online solely to return to the default state.