cancel sync of one file during the sync
untill onedrive syncs the files, I cannot stop the sync of one or more files. I have to sync before files and cancel files I don't interest later.
I think is no good and lose a lot of time.You must put a buttom (like cancel or x) to cancel the sync of singular files
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Anonymous
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Please implement a way for us to prevent specific files from synching with one drive. I research my family tree and the data files are huge. These take up quite a lot of my storage on my One Drive to the extent that I receive almost constant notifications that my One Drive is nearly full. I personally would love the option to click a check box when saving the files to say that I do not want it to synch. Another options would be an option on the right click menu when you right click the file on your file directory.
I apologise if this is something which is being considered for future iterations of the software.
Thank you for your attention
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Anonymous
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I want to choose which files go to Onedrive - some I don't want online at all. To not be able to do this is a breach of privacy and a security risk.
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Anonymous
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Please implement that as soon as possible !!!
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Apoorv Ingle
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I wish there was something like a `.gitignore` equivalent that instructs onedrive to not sync certain kinds of files in the path.
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Anonymous
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We need an option to exclude files. This syncing makes using OneNote unusable because it becomes unresponsive trying to sync with every keystroke.
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Ilya K
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Please let us exclude files from OneDrive backup! Some apps have to keep files in my documents, but end up way too big (and / or unnecessary) for OneDrive to backup.
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Anonymous
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There are a couple of files within my Documents folder that I did not realize were in there and they are hundreds of MB's in size. As I monitor OneDrive's sync process, I often notice huge files that I would rather not upload to the cloud. I already tried pausing sync and deleting the file, but when I resume sync, the file is still shown as uploading. It would be great if we could Stop individual files from syncing to avoid bogging down the bandwidth. Thanks for your consideration :)
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Anonymous
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Yes PLEASE !! allow an option to exclude any or all folders from automatically syncing to one drive. I prefer to keep my files on the computer and only sync a few folders. Even then I want the files to be always available on the laptop and only synced on demand or during a specific time period. I perfer that syncing create backups vs being the place whre my files are stored.
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Randy
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I know it may seem impossible in this day and age, but some people are still locked into plans with data caps. Just the .pst file kills a HUGE percentage of my cap. For this reason, I have disabled onedrive. It's a cool concept, but poorly executed.
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Anonymous
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Just planning to move to Windows 365 for all my computers, but lacking the ability to selectively file on OneDrive is causing me to rethink. Just a ploy to get us to buy more cloud storage. Time to rethink this decision.
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Anonymous
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wow i am shocked you cannot stop syncing a file. For example Archive.PST
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Mark
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I REALLY DO NOT WANT ONEDR|IVE to sync all my files in my documents!! I play games on just ONE PC and DO NOT NEED THEM SYNCED across all devices plus all my games have their own cloud saves so really do not need them to sync!!!!! I cannot see a way to stop it syncing files i dont want synced and its a pointless waste of time and space!! This is ridiculous!!! I will cancel onedrive and go backt o other cloud options unless this feature is fixed so you can CHOOSE what files and folder you want synced.
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Anonymous
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You should be able to exclude individual folders or files from the Backup process as some apps keep live app data in Documents for example that will never sync right and will cause constant complaints from OneDrive.
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Anonymous
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Would like to be able to stop Teams icon from syncing for example.
When logging onto many computers with Desktop redirected you constantly get Teams - Copy1 Teams - Copy 2 .....
There are other icons as well as Teams. which need to stay on the computer and not follow the user around -
Qing
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should be able to config the files or folders you dont want to be synced in a .ignore file
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Krista Christie
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I have very large files that are continually updated when in use on a particular program that are stored by default in the documents folder. This means my onedrive is constantly trying to sync those folders all day and needlessly as those meta files do not require syncing. I very much wish to exclude them.
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Jeanne Fields
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Agreed, There's a file on my desktop that is work related that blocks syncing. As a result One Drive continually reflects error messages that there are no access permissions to files. It would be helpful to be able to skip the file instead of skipping the entire desktop or dealing with the error message.
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Anonymous
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It's kind of amusing that the company that owns github(in which git has a simple '.ignore' mechanism), doesn't have any way to do this. Please add this much needed feature so that local files and metadata need not be pointlessly synced.
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David
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I can see that many others would like to be disallow synching of files that are above a certain size, in order to avoid using up memory space oni Onedrive or on a local pc.
Maybe Microsoft could include a rule setting feature which could be effective for any particular set of preset circumstances?
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Anonymous
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Very surprising that OneDrive doesn't allow specific files to be omitted from the sync. There are all sorts of reason why this would be a good idea. In my case, it's a lock file that's almost permanently open, so I get an almost permanent sync error. Please Microsoft, either implement this or at least give a good technical reason why not.
