Ondrive on 7 and 8.1 sync?

[The Evil Overlord]

If this question has already been answered, please could someone direct me towards it before deleting this thread?

 

Hey guys,

 

My wife bought herself a cheap windows 8.1 laptop a few weeks ago (make and model irrelevant), which has onedrive on it.

(I myself dropbox as I've never noticed any sync issues, just too slow or will simply refuse to upload large files  this is one of the reasons I'm thinking of dropping dropbox<usually .pdf's>)

 

Her laptop is linked to her Microsoft account, my pc as it's windows 7, doesn't need to be.

 

Just for argument sake, I decided to link my pc to her onedrive, so she can keep doing her work via either device (like we used to via dropbox).

But I've noticed, on her laptop her onedrive has 4 folders that can be accessed, as far as I can tell, only via her laptop, they're not set to private, that I'm aware of, and it's not really a big deal, just an annoyance to me as all folders in dropbox can be synced to any of our devices.

 

Is there a way to set these folders up, so that they would sync and show up on the pc as well as the laptop?

At the moment, we have to place files into the root directory of onedrive on whichever device, in order to show it on the other...

 

If you need more info, let me know, I'll do the best I can to explain.

 

I've added an image showing the onedrive folder as it is on the pc, the laptop windows is identical except it has 4 folders within.

(I'm trying to set it up so all of onedrive, including the folders that will be created/deleted can be accessed or modified via any terminal within our network)

 

[The Evil Overlord]

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[MorganX]

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is inherent in OneDrive and should be working as you expect. I do know some older versions of OneDrive allowed you to select which folders to sync and that could be a part of your issue.

 

I would check for sync issues on the PC that is not syncing all the folders. Also, if you go to OneDrive in a web browser, are the folders in question there? In the cloud?

[The Evil Overlord]

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is inherent in OneDrive and should be working as you expect. I do know some older versions of OneDrive allowed you to select which folders to sync and that could be a part of your issue.

I would check for sync issues on the PC that is not syncing all the folders. Also, if you go to OneDrive in a web browser, are the folders in question there? In the cloud?

hi, I downloaded whichever version was available from microsoft for the win 7 machine, so you could very well be right, on the laptop and via web browser, yes they show.. just not on the pc, if it can't be fixed, it's not the end of the world, just annoys the ocd part of me.

[The Evil Overlord]

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is inherent in OneDrive and should be working as you expect. I do know some older versions of OneDrive allowed you to select which folders to sync and that could be a part of your issue.

 

I would check for sync issues on the PC that is not syncing all the folders. Also, if you go to OneDrive in a web browser, are the folders in question there? In the cloud?

I give up, guess I'll just have to live with it, it does sync so it's not a total loss..

[MorganX]

I give up, guess I'll just have to live with it, it does sync so it's not a total loss..

 

It's going to haunt you If you have Hyper-V anywhere, install a client and OneDrive and see if those folders sync. I really think it's something on the client PC and it's OneDrive client.