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.
178 comments
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Anonymous
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Probably a bit late now, but you may want to take a look at GoodSync.com. You can setup automatic syncing of any folders into OneDrive, even folders on external drives which aren't always connected. They don't particularly promote this feature and a little fiddly to setup but it works very well.
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osm
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Regarding last couple of comments - doesn't Dropbox and Google Drive have exactly the same limitation as OneDrive?
(as far as I know, they only sync content that's within the Dropbox and Google Drive folders)
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Anonymous
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yup I will ahve to agree with you all my company just converted to office 365....what a waste of time and money.....just want to sync folders with my admin but apparantly that is too complicated of a request......Dropbox for business here we come...what ashame!
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jfd
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The inability to backup entire folders (which every other cloud backup service, like Google, Dropbox, Mozy and so on allows) makes OneDrive useless for many users. What a colossal waste of time. So typical of MS these days. If Win10 does not show some real change, I'm gone. I have already been forced to switch many office PCs to Linux because MS is unresponsive and often clueless about what the users need.
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azmaster
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I am so glad I found this thread.
What a waste of time with onedrive.
As a 365 customer I feel ripped off and handcuffed by M$bye bye
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Joshua Ros
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That feature is already there. Just right click on OneDrive and check the properties.
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Zita
commented
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Mike
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This is exactly why I decided to abandon Onedrive, now using Asus webstorage. To be honest I feel a bit offended with the declined response for simple essential request.
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Anonymous
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Allow any folder to be synced
Right now (21.05.2015) if you try to sync your files they must be saved to \users\****\OneDrive. Many of us would like to be able to define any folder in any path to be a synced and current OneDrive options aer too limiting and unusefull. I suggest like many other softs with the same application you also add this function. It is too easy. Why you don't add such a simple task?
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Carl Armstrong
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You know, I bought a second copy of Windows 8.1 and installed it on my desktop with the impression that this was possible. I have a lot of important documents on my laptop that would be devastating to lose. OneDrive seemed like an ideal solution but it turns out that it won't do what I want. There are workarounds but they are inconvenient. I'm very disappointed that this feature is not even being considered. I would vote for this if voting were not closed. Instead, I can only comment on how I feel my money has been wasted.
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Kevin
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This is indeed a major flaw and absolutely unnecessary! Our Mac environment works with network accounts (called roaming profiles in the windows world). This means that a user's home folder is on a server drive and thus no user can sync a folder from his account. This renders the product useless.
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Anonymous
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Good morning, I wanted to ask if you have plans to permit movement of the synchronization folder on a hard drive One external network, a Nas.
I also think it is a limitation that should not exist and I hope you can provide as soon as possible
I await your feedback
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pdc
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Unbelievable. A simple and essential feature request. Declined only for ideological reasons as technically very simple. Get real Microsoft - people will go elsewhere
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BH
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I purchased a 365 annual account solely for the purpose of linking to external drive with OS X.... now I've cancelled and am looking elsewhere...
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Brian
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It seems that this has become a feature on OneDrive for Business Mac, but not on the Windows version. This is too restrictive for laptop users who usually don't have an extra 1TB of space lying around for storage. How am I supposed to convince users that storing in ODFB is better than are local server storage with limitations like this? We already have issues with ODFB syncing, etc and now they have to know that they don't truly have 1TB because we didn't purchase giant laptop hard drives for them.
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Albert
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+2 votes!!
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Julius789
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Hi everyone,I use CloudBacko (http://free.cloudbacko.com?r=1d) as an automatic backup solution, then I do some manual backup once a month on a local hard drive. But I’d like to skip that manual thing and get instead a second automatic solution.Do I sound too cautious, or do you guys also have not one but two backup solutions? What do you use?
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SoloXCRacer
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Right now when I install OneDrive on my Mac, it asks me to choose a location for my OneDrive folder. If I choose an SD Card or any other external storage device, I'm not allowed to do so. We need the ability to be able to use an External Storage device as our OneDrive folder. In 2015, there is no reason not to!!!
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Anonymous
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So onedrive is useless because other programms are often not allowed to save their datas in onedrive. And Microsoft want people to use onedrive instead of a home server.
When people decide for Microsoft, they want something shure and functionally.
I think you have to do consequent and clearly what you do and give people also the choice to use onedrive or not - but consequently.
So onedrive is in the principe a good idea but has to get better with peoples idea.And if I have no Synchronisation center in win 8.1 - what a pity, the conequences of customers will be to use third party software or more consequent don't use windows and office anymore because it limits the peoples experience too much.
And if you google in internet, you see a lot of threas (more than 351000 persons) who would like a onedrive with this function.
When I had the chance to speak in Davos with Bill and Melinda, I also spoke about that. And I was surprised to learn that Bill uses that for 3rd party software. So please, have a meeting with Bill and your boss Mr. S. and build onedrive for a really good instrument or give possibilitys to your software to deny on onedrive, but use the own home Server. Ok?!!!!
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Anonymous
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So onedrive is useless because other programms are often not allowed to save their datas in onedrive. And Microsoft want people to use onedrive instead of a home server.
When people decide for Microsoft, they want something shure and functionally.
I think you have to do consequent and clearly what you do and give people also the choice to use onedrive or not - but consequently.
So onedrive is in the principe a good idea but has to get better with peoples idea.And if I have no Synchronisation center in win 8.1 - what a pity, the conequences of customers will be to use third party software or more consequent don't use windows and office anymore because it limits the peoples experience too much.
And if you google in internet, you see a lot of threas (more than 351000 persons) who would like a onedrive with this function.
When I had the chance to speak in Davos with Bill and Melinda, I also spoke about that. And I was surprised to learn that Bill uses that for 3rd party software. So please, have a meeting with Bill and your boss Mr. S. and build onedrive for a really good instrument or give possibilitys to your software to deny on onedrive, but use the own home Server. Ok?!!!!
