Open text files present in Onedrive directly without downloading to a sync folder
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Hi,
Is there a way to open text files present in Onedrive directly in Notepad++ without downloading the file to a sync folder?Any help would be much appreciated!!!
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To elaborate a bit. If there are docx files present in your onedrive, you can simply open the Word app on your Windows laptop, and go to Open and point to your onedrive location on the web.
I am looking for a similar method of opening .txt files. Basically the .txt files that are present on my Onedrive, and I would like to point the Notepad++ to open from there directly. -
@Kunal-Mehta ,
Unless I’m mistaken, and OneDrive doesn’t work like GoogleDrive, the way to access that file is on your hard drive syncronized file folder.From what I understand, since you used the term sync, it means you have a file on the hard drive that is synced to the cloud drive. If you want to change that file, you change it in the hard drive based file, and then it will depending on your settings, sync with the cloud according to it’s settings. If this is a misunderstanding on my part of what you’re seeking to do, ignore this.
When I want to access the files on GoogleDrive directly, I go to the GoogleDrive via Google and edit them. If I want a backup on GoogleDrive via syncing, I modify the one on my hard drive GD directory. Make sense if OneDrive operates the same way?
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@Kunal-Mehta said in Open text files present in Onedrive directly without downloading to a sync folder:
If there are docx files present in your onedrive, you can simply open the Word app on your Windows laptop, and go to Open and point to your onedrive location on the web.
No, Notepad++ doesn’t have the same “in” to Microsoft’s OneDrive webserver that Microsoft’s Office products do.
Besides, in essense, even in MS Office, what you are doing is temporarily downloading a copy of the file, editing it, then saving it to the remote server again. If you really want the same effect, you could enable that particular file to sync from the cloud account to your drive, do the editing locally, then once you were down, set that file back to cloud-only.
I’m actually surprised that no one has written a plugin to do what you suggest – but not just with Microsoft’s cloud service, but one that works for all the dropbox/onedrive/google-drive/etc cloud services – akin to the NppFTP plugin. (Of course, what NppFTP plugin does is download a copy of the file from the server, then edits it locally, then copies it back to the remote site when you are done, and doesn’t even delete the local copy – so it’s really just using its own cache directory for the local storage, rather than the folder that you’ve already got set to sync with the cloud service… so, again, instead of using an “NppCloud” plugin, it would also make sense to make sure that any cloud-based text file you wanted to edit with Notepad++, you should just make sure that file stays sync’d on your local drive, not be set to cloud-only mode.)
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@PeterJones Thanks for the response!
Yes, I am looking for that plugin that you described. I do not wish to download the files to a sync folder on my laptop. Just view/edit the files directly from Notepad++ while they are still in the cloud.
Guess will have to wait for someone to come up with a plugin.
