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Figure 3-16. Here’s how you tell Windows which folders you want synced with your online OneDrive.

Top: Right-click the OneDrive icon ( ) in the system tray. (If you don’t see it, it may be hidden. In
that case, click the button in the system tray to see the hidden icons—including OneDrive. You
can right-click it right there in the balloon.) From the shortcut menu, choose Settings.

Middle: The OneDrive Settings dialog box appears. On the Account tab, select the “Choose folders”
button.

Bottom: At this point, Windows displays a list of all the folders on your OneDrive. Turn off the
checkboxes of folders you don’t want copied to your PC.

The first time you turn off a checkmark, Windows warns you that your local (PC) copy will be
deleted. Only the internet copy will live on. From now on, you can keep some folders synced with
your PC, and some only online, safely tucked away on your OneDrive in the sky.

Tip

You can also drag file and folder tiles into other folders, right here in your browser. Weird.

If you swipe down on a tile or right-click, you get a tall menu of options.
Most of them are identical to the buttons already described (Rename,

Delete, and so on). But you may see other commands that pertain only to
the kind of document you’ve selected. If it’s a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint

document, you can open and edit it right there in your web browser. If it’s a
photo, you get options like “Rotate,” “Order prints,” or “Add to album.”

Fetch: Remote Access to Your Whole PC Back Home

OneDrive has a secret feature that could come to your rescue the next time

you’re away from home and realize you need something that’s on your
home PC: a feature called Fetch. It lets you access everything on your PC

back at home, from wherever you happen to be, from OneDrive.com—even
if you’re on a Mac.

There’s only a short list of fine-print footnotes:

The PC back home has to be turned on and online.

The remote PC has to be running Windows 7 or later. (And if it’s

Windows 7 or 8, it has to have the OneDrive app installed and
open. You can download it from OneDrive.com.)