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Configuring OneLake settings

Configuring OneLake settings

Now in the Workspace OneLake settings, we've got access to an application called OneLake File Explorer. Now this is a Windows application that you download and can view workspaces that you have access to. You'll see the files and you'll see the folders. So we can browse the folders and see the files in the workspaces. However, don't worry if you've got a large amount of files and data, it is not downloading the files automatically. You can choose to download those files, but we can upload files. Now this is really useful if we have Excel files or CSV files that we're working with locally that are useful and need to be in Fabric. So we can add those in to the OneLake File Explorer, into the relevant workspace and folder, and it'll synchronize up into Fabric. We can enable and disable caching for shortcuts. Now what shortcut caching enables us to do is if we've created a shortcut in a lake house to a supported data source, we can read from the cache on subsequent read operations. So…

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