There are a bunch of new three-finger navigation gestures available on machines that have precision touchpads, which are a new type of touchpads designed specifically for Windows 8.1 that most of us probably don't have. The build brings a number of other changes, too, although most of them are pretty ho-hum. What this change means for the future of Windows RT – which tried its hardest to steer users away from the desktop by refusing to run any software but Microsoft Office and Windows Store apps – remains to be seen. Otherwise, you can select which folders you want to sync and which should stay in the cloud from the OneDrive settings panel. If you have less than 500MB of files on OneDrive and your Windows device has "enough space" – how Microsoft determines this isn't clear – all of your files will sync automatically. This was confusing, awkward, and occasionally infuriating for almost everybody, and Microsoft has finally gotten the message.Īs of Build 9879 if the Windows 10 Preview, the OneDrive sync behavior has rolled back to how it was pre-Windows 8.1, where your local files simply sync with the cloud, like you expect them to.
Instead, you're shown icons that look like files but are really placeholders, and the actual files are only downloaded when you try to use them, or if you select "Make available offline" from the contextual menu in File Explorer.
Windows 8.1 doesn't synchronize files from OneDrive with the local file system by default. Easy learning curve: Windows 10 Preview's new OneDrive UI has a familiar feel (click to enlarge)
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