One Drive personal vault question

Ed P 1 Reputation point
2020-11-09T04:39:40.533+00:00

So I want to use personal vault to store some important confidential information as a backup to my main home PC. Great. Now suppose I want to access the vault from SOMEONE ELSE'S PC (or perhaps a public PC in a hotel, for example), by signing into onedrive ---- access the file directly from onedrive, let's say a word doc or spreadsheet ---- then immediately signing out / unlinking the account. How do I PREVENT any syncing of the vault from the cloud to the local drive.?

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  1. Emi Zhang-MSFT 22,086 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-11-09T09:14:27.287+00:00

    Hi @Ed P ,
    If you don't sing in to local account, the Personal Vault folder will not be able to download to local.
    And as the article said" Because your Personal Vault is a secure folder, it appears as a shortcut in your file list, rather than the folder list:"
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    Windows 10: Files deleted from your Personal Vault using your PC are permanently deleted and do not appear in your PC recycle bin. However, you can find the files in your OneDrive.com recycle bin as long as the files were already uploaded to OneDrive.

    Hope the information is helpful.

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