Configure Onedrive permanently only 1 cloud-only folder-subfolder

Win11 Onedrive desktop app configured to download and sync all files in settings.
I want 1 folder to be viewable on PC, and have all files and subfolders in that folder be cloud-only / file-on-demand, including all future files and subfolders that I may copy to that folder.
For example, folder "Test" is currently empty, then I copy 1 file to it, and it uploads it to the cloud, then automatically removes it from PC, leaving only an icon, then later in the future, if I decided to, I could copy the file from folder to somewhere else on PC, and Onedrive will download file at that moment it is needed.
I am asking for this to happen automatically, I do not want to manually upload files to Onedrive website. I don't want to have all files on PC be cloud only. I don't want to use the Onedrive hide folder option.
Currently, if I configure a folder to be cloud only, and then add 1 file to that folder, the new file will not be cloud only, so that does not work.
How can I do this? Thank you.

I don't know of any way to have it automatically work that way. You can periodically right click on your folder and choose Free up space and it will remove it from your PC. But if you create a new file in that folder, it will create it again locally.

pparks1 said:

I don't know of any way to have it automatically work that way. You can periodically right click on your folder and choose Free up space and it will remove it from your PC. But if you create a new file in that folder, it will create it again locally.

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I've used OneDrive for more than 15 years and I don't know of any way to have it automatically work that way either. I've always wanted to keep files on both local OneDrive and cloud OneDrive so they were available for my backups.

You can create a scheduled task to mark the files as sparse. Then, clear the pinned attribute, and set the unpinned and offline attribute.


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