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Re:Microsoft bringing back the old OneDrive placeholder files by Zekio on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:53PM (#14319411)
Wonder why they removed it in the first place, it was such a pain when they removed it...
Re:Microsoft bringing back the old OneDrive placeholder files by WorldMaker on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:14PM (#14319951)
From what I read, it sounded like as it existed in Windows 8.1 the UI/UX was too complicated/confusing for users at the time and they were removing it until they solved some of the UI/UX problems.

It does look the UI has evolved (a dedicated column in Details view, some new clues in the command line even; in the demo the DIR showed the file size in parentheses, presumably to note a placeholder).

It also sounds like the UX has evolved with things like file prediction to predict some of the files to load/unload from a device.