Allow any folder to be synced
Currently if you want to sync files they must be saved to \users<username>\OneDrive. This is way too limiting!!! Need to be able to define any folder in any path to be a synced folder.
Brent Pearce
shared this idea
Understand the request, but there are no plans for this at this time.
181 comments
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Mack Poone
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This is why I use Bitcasa....works exactly as you would expect. Right click any folder and select Sync With Bitcasa
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Jules Archinova
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There's no plan for proper syncing client Ryan ? That's ridiculous.
What now ? Should allow symlinking to all non admin users to work around this ? -
Anonymous
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Here's a quick and dirty hack around this - Just create symlinks in your OneDrive folder that point to wherever you want (use mklink in an elevated shell) and the OneDrive app will follow them.
This works only on Windows Vista or newer versions (XP not supported) -
MR Shook
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Voting closed at 676 votes and MSFT says they understand, but no, no way, not today, not ever. So much for understanding.
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Peter
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Requesting this feature. Would be useful for users with SSD and non-ssd drive combinations
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Adriano Ponte commented
"Understand the request, but there are no plans for this at this time."
Caralho, isso sim é ridiculo.
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Volker
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Yes. Why you cannot do this? It is simple, others have. I just bought Office365, and it does not work as expected.
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osm
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@yaniv. Well it does make it simpler for the sync service provider. Seems to be the norm amongst the major services. For example, Dropbox also does this and its probably a key reason its performance and reliability is so good.
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Yaniv
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ditto - seems like a very basic idea. Never did get the point of making you change your entire filing system just for the sake of backup.
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r4q
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Awful that you cannot do this, whats the point, most people who backup to the cloud will have huge non SSD drivers with their own file structures, they don't want them to dump them into the users folder. Seriously Microsoft you fail everytime you try something decent.
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Anonymous
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you can do that with symlinks
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VC
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sounds a bit confusing to me...
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Brian
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This is so, so ironic. Microsoft killed Windows Live Mesh--which had this great feature in it, along with other very nice ones that now don't exist--because Steven Sinofsky and crew didn't want something that might compete with the development (under his control) of a service that would eventually come to be known as ....yep, OneDrive. Fast-forward to 2015 and today's OneDrive really doesn't contain any of the big specific features that Windows Live Mesh focused on. They actually turned out to be two very different, non-exclusive products. As it turned out, killing Live Mesh was basically pointless. But it certainly still seems like the idio...nice people, I mean who are running OneDrive now are totally uninterested in bringing any of those nice capabilities from Live Mesh back.
Bonus irony: As it became clear Windows 8 was a huge flop MS kicked Steven Sinofsky out on his ***. His career met the same fate Live Mesh did.
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Brian
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I'm assuming that this means that the syncing would happen with the folder remaining where it is in the file system (rather than just meaning that the folder would get automatically shuffled to the OneDrive folder). If so, definitely a +3. Windows Live Mesh had this feature, and it was fantastic. And surprisingly none of OneDrive's major free competitors have implemented it yet. (Well, Sugarsync did, but then they went paid-only.) An opportunity for OneDrive...
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Anonymous
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My dick is much smarter than whole MS OneDrive Team. It's sucks. Many people has small SSD drive for system (like 32GB/64GB) and big HDD for data. Think before you implement solutions 'cos now it is not solution.
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Bach
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So Onedrive has become DROPBOX without the selection of synced location. FAIL FAIL FAIL. I can't believe you guys make ONEDRIVE worse off on win10 than on Win8.1
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M. Vick
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Excellent. I've never had my synch issues resolved by Microsoft, and that sounds like a very nice feature. No need to move or copy folders into the OD folder.
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R.S. BROWN
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WHY NOT JUST ALLOW USERS TO RIGHT-CLICK ON A FOLDER AND SELECT "SYNC TO ONE DRIVE" INSTEAD OF HAVING TO PUT A COPY IN THE "ONE DRIVE" FOLDER.
[updated title from ONE DRIVE FOLDER SYNC]
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Hugo Augusto
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Declined??!!! Don't see the point of using OneDrive for Business if we are forced tohave files on local machines instead of having them on a NAS. Microsoft, start listening your clients!
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Oyvind
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Mr. Zacher's respond sounds just like; "Yes, but we - the all mighty MS - couldn't care less about what you the users want. Cause we rule and our word is the law!"
