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In need of some advice on setting up Onedrive on after a clean install
Hi, Im looking into using Onedrive for the first time on my laptop. After searching the web I havent been able to get a clear answer about setting up Onedrive for my particular needs.
I know that Onedrive can be configured during setup to automatically backup the Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders. My question relates to the Documents folder. Immediately after a clean install I always copy my Documents into the This PC/Documents folder from a USB flash drive where I have my Documents, Pictures etc backed up. If I select the Documents, Desktop, Pictures folders to be backed up automatically during Windows Setup they will then sync and be backed up to Onedrive in the cloud. However, I dont want my entire Documents folder backing up to Onedrive. A lot of my Documents I would just like to keep locally on my laptop. Also I will be installing amongst other things the Steam Gaming Platform which also uses the Documents folder and I wouldnt want folders such as Steam Game folders to be backed up to the cloud either.
Is it better to not enable automatic backups of the Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders during Windows Setup? If you dont allow automatic backups ..does that mean that you would need to run two separate Documents folders...the Onedrive/Documents folder and the This PC/Documents Folder? Would you then just copy the files you want in the cloud to the Onedrive/Documents folder from the This PC/Documents folder and leave the files you only want to keep locally on the hard drive where they are in the This PC/Documents folder? It all seems a little bit complicated. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys