Poor Integration With Windows Applications - Can use with Windows Application Save As and File Open Dialogs

[peaston]

I’m wondering if there is some way to configure O Drive to better integrate with Windows. I would like to be able to save a document to a cloud service using O Drive. But most of the folders are not available when doing a save-as in from a Windows application. I have to first open the O Drive directory in Windows Explorer and navigate to the location in Windows Explorer to change the directory placeholders into folders.

It seems I can set a folder to sync just the directories but not the files which gets me part way there.

But I can’t access file stubs from a Windows application Open-File dialog window. I don’t want to have to sync everything from all cloud services to my local computer. Space management is one of the features I like about O Drive. But I would like to be able to see and select stubs from the Open Files dialog of Windows applications.

Is there anyway to get windows to recognize O Drive stubs, be able to select it in an open-file dialog, and have it download and open in the application?

[Tony]

Hi @peaston,
This is currently a limitation in some applications with the odrive shell extensions (right-click options). I posted a possible work-around, that requires a little bit of leg work, using a script I created for folks using screen readers. You can take a look here:

Why not use the offline status on File Explorer?

Hi Bruce, I see. Office should be using an instance of Explorer to provide the file picker interface which includes our extensions. You can see that other apps have this (like Wordpad), but Office is doing something funky with the instance it creates and our extensions are excluded, which means you can’t right-click on the items to sync them within the Office file picker. Now, I know this is not a perfect solution, but there is a powershell-based utility I made for folks that are visually impa…

There is also an additional workaround example listed here:

How to use odrive with Office

I meant to reply sooner to this, but I was experimenting with options. The way our extension is coded, it should work inside the Office file pickers, but it is not. You can see that other apps do, like Wordpad. We are looking to see if there are ways to overcome this. In the meantime, you can try the following: When you have the file picker open in the Office app, make sure you select All Files from the extension filter: [image] Then, you can see the .cloud and .cloudf placeholders. If you …