Creating new non-synching storage folder for documents on C: drive

eliuri · 20 Jun 2019

Hello:

I've recently synched all my documents in my Documents directory with OneDrive.

This changed the pathway of all files/folders there from

C:\Users\Username\Documents

to

C:\Users\Username\OneDrive\Documents

I don't wish to synchronize all my document folders. Just most of them. But when I undid Documents from OneDrive's Settings--> Backup, they all just disappeared from my hard drive --I guess up into the OneDrive cloud. So I ticked Documents back in from within Settings, and they re-appeared....It's fine with me to have most my Documents protected this way..But there are many I'd just like to simply store on my PC--without OneDrive synchronization
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Question:

How best to do that?

Offhand, I can think of two ways, but there may be others:

1) One option might be to use the already existing directory at OS (C) C:\Users\Username\Documents

It is non-synching. So far OneDrive hasnt "claimed" it. I have placed a file there a few days ago, sent link to it to my Desktop and it seems to just stay put..So far..

But might this somehow "confuse" the system and create issues later on?

2) Create new Folder at OS (C):

For example:

C:\Storage

and simply store non-syching file/folder documents there. Not sure this is safe and stable way to do this without messing things up

Which of these two options--if any-- is the more stable and wont create issues and pathway confusions down the line

There's only one user for my pc and only one OS Drive C

Thanks

Eliuri
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Windows 10 Version:1809
OneDrive Version: 2019 Build 19.086.0502.006

Caledon Ken · 21 Jun 2019

There is a whole series of Onedrive Tutorials in the library. Here is one.

Choose Folders for OneDrive Selective Sync in Windows 10

At the end of the tutorial there are links to related tutorials.

eliuri · 21 Jun 2019

Thank you. However I had read those tutorials last week when I was trying to get OneDrive to synch with my Documents. The Documents folder is one of 3 folders backed up by default by OneDrive. I had found out what was blocking the synching of Documents, and finally got it to synch as a protected Windows folder. Now my question pertains to un-synching a few specific folders in my Documents, while keeping most of them protected by OneDrive backup.

The goal is to have those available only locally and not online. Unticking a given folder in Documents via Settings merely makes it invisible--and unavailable-- on the local drive. Only way to get it back then is to re-synch by ticking it back in.

So my initial question above--and possible modes I put forth there to achieve that --still remains

Thanks

mngerhold · 22 Jun 2019

As far as I know, as long as the files you don't want synched are in a folder outside OneDrive, they will be ignored. Any folder you like.

eliuri · 22 Jun 2019

Thank you. Mngerhold

Intuitively it makes sense to me to keep such non-synching documents in the original

C:\Users\[Username]\Documents folder which still exists in C:

That's how I've tried doing it past few days and so far it seems to work.

My concern is that if I were you unlink this PC from within the OneDrive Settings, then the OneDrive-->Documents folder would revert back to

C:\Users\[Username]\Documents

and create some sort of duplicate pathway and lead to issues