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You are my hero. I made a junction point (mlink /J) of my documents and it just works. I can edit a document on my mobile and it is synced to my local documents folder. I can edit a document in my local documents folder and it syncs to ondrive.
I have been using OneDrive for a while, but only used it to send files to my mobile for offline use.
I'm so happy that I found your guide.
Hello! Thanks very much for taking the time to do this. Apparently, Microsoft has decided not to implement "Smart" Functionality with OneDrive.
Not sure what I am doing wrong... I ran CMD as Admin. The first time I did it, I received the Junction Created message, but nothing happened.
I'm assuming that I'm not supposed to create the folder manually in the local OneDrive folder since it is not mentioned in the steps.
Additional attempts has resulted in a "Cannot create a file when that file already exists." Message.
Again.. Nothing at all is happening. Not sure what to do..
Hi, Thnx for the amazing guide!
I'm currently running 2 One Drives on my PC is there a way to specify that it shouldn't go to my personal One Drive but instead to my organizations's one drive?
Thnx in advance!
There are some big caveats to doing this....
Firstly if you sync a folder from another disc, OneDrive will not behave properly, because it will use the free space of the disk with the onedrive folder, and not free space of the other disk.
Consider this situation:
OneDrive folder on C: drive which is, say, 256G SSD.
You mklink into that D:\mystuff on a 1TB drive.
You then try and sync down 500GB of data.
One drive will fail, because it thinks there is only <256GB free space.
This can also happen just by editing files... Things don't sync.
So the big caveat of this tutorial is you really can only add folders from the same drive, or: you need to move OneDrives base folder to be on the drive with the biggest free space/sync storage.
In the above examples you need OneDrive to be based on D:\stuff 1TB disc then mklink in there to folders from C:\ that you also want to back up.
Shawn, It's a wonderful way to sync PC folders with OneDrive. But I've not tried as I've manually a few folders & files from laptop to OneDrive. Later I didn't update my PC folders & files but worked on the same folder & files in OneDrive.
Now if I use your technique to sync my folders on PC with OneDrive, what will happen to my new/modified files on OneDrive? Will they download or sync with my similar files on my PC? Is it this method truly a two-way syncing technique? Can I rest assured that my folders & files will always be in sync?
Regards,
Rahul Dev