Syncing custom folder to my OneDrive?

[Elliot B.]

I am running Windows 10.

 

I want to sync a folder that is not in C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive (which is the default OneDrive folder)

 

I don't want to use a symbolic link (they're messy when I reformat).

 

Any ideas?

[T3X4S]

Well, I know you can setup OneDrive to give you access to any folder/file - I dont have mine setup like that - but I know its an option - would that work ?

I guess you could set it up to give you access to any folder, then restrict it to your default OneDrive path & the special folder....

Just a guess

 

But you would have to consider size then - how big is your OneDrive ?

FWIW - I pay $14.00/yr and have 140GB I think... (through promotions and whatnot but it is damned cheap.

I only mention this if space becomes an issue.

[Elliot B.]

Well, I know you can setup OneDrive to give you access to any folder/file - I dont have mine setup like that - but I know its an option - would that work ?

I guess you could set it up to give you access to any folder, then restrict it to your default OneDrive path & the special folder....

Just a guess

How do I do this?

 

The Start menu program is a shortcut to:

 

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

 

This opens:

 

C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive

 

Basically, I see no way to configure

[T3X4S]

How do I do this?

 

The Start menu program is a shortcut to:

 

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

 

This opens:

 

C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive

 

Basically, I see no way to configure

Rt click on your cloud icon on the taskbar over in the far right, then choose [settings]

Then go here:

 

 

You can read about it here - its not an elegant solution, but a possible way to get what you need/

If its not there - I can switch over to my Win10 VM and take a look....

Or... you can go to "settings" from the actual OneDrive website

[Elliot B.]

Rt click on your cloud icon on the taskbar over in the far right, then choose [settings]

Then go here:

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You can read about it here - its not an elegant solution, but a possible way to get what you need/

If its not there - I can switch over to my Win10 VM and take a look....

I'm not sure if Fetch is what I want to do.

 

Basically I have 600 GB of photos and over 1 TB of space on my OneDrive account, so I figured I may as well back up my photos to there (and keep them synced automatically).

 

However, I do NOT want to put the photos into C:\Users\<username>\Pictures or C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive\Pictures as I'm happy having them on a separate internal drive (and symbolic links, as I said, are messy when I want to reformat).

[T3X4S]

Yeah, the more and more I look @ my option - I see its not what you want/need.


Hmmmm - thinking on this ......

[Elliot B.]

Google Plus+ is doing it for me just fine but I only have 17 GB space, so I have to let the program shrink all the photos to 2048px before upload, which isn't ideal for archival purposes.

 

[Shadrack]

So does OP have like a D:\ drive and they would like their OneDrive folder to be in D:\OneDrive\ ? Am I understanding the question right? When you first install OneDrive you select the folder to sync to on that computer and it defaults to C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive, but this can be something different than that.

 

If you already have it installed and setup, I think the "Unlink OneDrive" is what you have to click on in the OneDrive settings dialog to link to a different location.

 

I have my OneDrive folder on my D:\ drive, and I recall selecting that when I installed the software.

 

Note: I'm on Windows 7 -- maybe this is different in Windows 10. I'm on Windows 8 at home, and I have my OneDrive in a different location on a separate HDD as well.