From the course: Introduction to Microsoft Fabric by Microsoft Press

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Synchronize data with the OneLake explorer

Synchronize data with the OneLake explorer

- By far the easiest way to get started with data in Fabric is to use OneLake explorer. OneLake explorer integrates with the file explorer on your PC, just like OneDrive if you use that. In the screenshot here you can see that I have a file library called OneLake with different folders. You cannot see this right away, but each top level folder corresponds to a workspace in my Fabric tenant, and each lakehouse in a workspace is available as a sub folder in OneLake explorer. This works exactly like OneDrive. As a matter of fact, right below OneLake here you can see my Quanto tenant library containing folders for each SharePoint site that I have. Just like you can save files to SharePoint or OneDrive as if you were saving them locally, with OneLake explorer, you can save files to a lakehouse. In this video, I'll show you where to get OneLake explorer and how to install it. We will then see how the lakehouses that we work with are now accessible directly from my PC, and we'll use that to…

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